I had a number of my constituents write me asking me where they could apply for one of these half-a-million-dollar jobs. I wasn't able to point them anywhere.
I want to challenge you on something and maybe it was you or Mr. Askari who said this. I think it was you that said it. It was about how the incentive is quite low for people to apply to this program. I asked the government officials about this and they said the incentive is low to fire somebody, to get below that $15,000 hard cut-off, which is, I would argue, poorly designed. Is the incentive also not low the other way?
How can it be true one way and not the other for small businesses deciding whether or not to hire somebody?