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As Unemployment Data is Released, Lou Barletta Offers Jobs Plan

Press Release

Date: Oct. 22, 2010
Issues: Unemployed and Low-Income Taxes Health and Health Care Government Budget and Spending

Pennsylvania's unemployment rate in September 2010 was up almost half a percent from September 2009 -- a sure sign of 26-year incumbent Congressman Paul Kanjorski's failed economic policies.

"Where are the jobs, Mr. Kanjorski? Northeastern Pennsylvania has the highest unemployment rate in the state. Mr. Kanjorski's economic policies -- voting for tax increases and against tax cuts, voting for the massive new energy tax known as cap and trade, voting for the government takeover of our healthcare system -- scare and confuse small business owners, who are then forced to postpone hiring new employees or lay off their employees," Lou Barletta. "As a small businessman, I know what it takes to create jobs. Unlike Mr. Kanjorski, I've signed the fronts of more checks than I've signed the back. I will bring my experience as a small businessman to Congress, which desperately needs that kind of perspective in order to get our economy back on track and lower our staggeringly high unemployment rate."

Lou Barletta proposed the following steps to create new jobs:

* "Stop the looming tax increases and preserve current tax rates in order to end the uncertainty facing small business owners. Small businesses should not be paying higher taxes at a time we need them to be expanding. Give small business a deduction equal to 20 percent of their income so they have the money to start hiring."

* "Reduce the spending spree in Washington that has wildly expanded government growth at the expense of small business job creation."

* "Reduce the burdensome overregulation being placed on small business, such as the requirement in the government healthcare takeover that any purchase of $600 or more by a small business requires a form to be filed with the IRS."

"These proposals will end the uncertainty, which is critical for small business and the entire private sector. Businesses cannot plan for hiring if they don't know how much money the government will take from them."


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