Issue Position: Jobs

Issue Position

We are learning first hand the cruel lesson that the larger government is, the less responsive it is to the people. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the so-called stimulus bill, which we were told would create millions of new jobs.

In truth, all it did was lavish favors on those with political pull: unions, Wall Street, large corporations. Even supporters of the stimulus have now been forced to admit that it likely didn't even save any jobs, let alone create them.

To have employees, we need employers. Simply demanding jobs, or conjuring them up with deficit spending, does not solve the problem. We need to immediately eliminate the capital gains tax, lower tax rates on business, and cut income tax rates. The best thing that the federal government can do to create jobs is to get out of the way and let the American people -- the American people, collectively known as private enterprise and the free market -- do what they do best: create, innovate, produce … and hire.

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