Issue Position: Jobs

Issue Position

Business owners and entrepreneurs don't need government to "stimulate" job creation, we just need government to get out of the way. Reductions in taxes, regulations and inflation will drive economic growth and job creation. Government creates nothing. It simply takes from some people by force to give to others. Every government job created is a job lost in the private sector (or worse). The principle effect of the "Stimulus Plan" was to simply keep government employees at all levels employed and to create more government jobs. Meanwhile the private, i.e. productive sector continues to lose jobs. I am not in favor of "punishing" companies who "send jobs overseas". If the government will stop punishing the companies who are operating in this country, we will have an ample supply of jobs. American productivity is the best in the world and products made in this country are closest to our home market. There are great advantages to producing products in this country. We just need to remove the disadvantages of onerous and intrusive regulations and punitive taxation if we want more jobs in this country.

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