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KIRKSVILLE, MO. -- Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer stopped in Kirksville Wednesday as part of his “Show-Me Small Business Jobs Tour.”
    
Luetkemeyer was scheduled to visit Wi-Fi Sensors but plant officials asked the congressman to change his plans earlier this week.
    
Instead Luetkemeyer toured Ortech and then stopped at the chamber of commerce for a roundtable discussion.

The congressman says he's been working in Washington to provide small businesses with the tools they need to prosper.

“It's the taxation, regulation and this continues oversight and intrusion and involvement in the lives of small business in the government that we want to try and hopefully do something about it shortly.  That's the biggest complaint we've heard,” said U.S. Representative Blaine Luetkemeyer, “We're serious about finding a way to get our country back on track to get the government out of their lives and allow small business people to do what they do best which is be in business and use their entrepreneur spirit to grow our economy.”
    
We asked him what he thinks about the Bush tax cuts and if they should be extended.  Luetkemeyer says statistics show tax cuts create revenue.

“With these revenues that come in, revenue growth that's there the folks in D. C. the folks at state level, they see an opportunity to spend it and they spend too much and that's our problem is spending,” said Congressman Luetkemeyer.

Luetkemeyer says in addition to small business concerns people also ask him about the healthcare mandates, unemployment rates, and growth in the economy.