Issue Position: Create Good Paying Jobs -- Grow Our Economy

Issue Position

Government's top priority must be to restore economic growth and enable the creation of good paying private sector jobs. 8.5% unemployment is a tragedy affecting millions of our fellow New Yorkers and Americans. This economic crisis demands decisive action to encourage investment, entrepreneurship, and a restoration of America's free market principles.

Current Washington policies are misguided -- driving jobs overseas and making our economy less competitive. Wasteful spending, crony capitalism, and burdensome regulations will only lead to higher unemployment and afflict many more millions of Americans with cooling job prospects and softening incomes.

Senator Gillibrand and many of our political leaders today do not have the experience or the vision to get the American economy growing again. Their playbook contains a mixture of short-term band-aids and interventions when a fundamental restructuring of our economy is required to compete in the 21st century. All government policies (trade, fiscal, monetary, foreign, energy, immigration, transportation and others) must be aligned to make us more competitive and to create and protect American jobs.

Our tax code should be simplified to be fairer, free of all subsidies and loopholes, but with strong incentives to manufacture and invest right here in the U.S.A.

We should adopt a national manufacturing policy in strategic industries such as energy, health care, transportation, and infrastructure.

Foreign policy should demand fair trade and vigorously protect American workers against the consequences of unfair trade practices. Focus must be given to currency manipulation, labor exploitation, intellectual property theft, and market access restrictions.

All new legislation or regulation should be subjected to a jobs impact assessment and rejected if it destroys jobs for hard working New Yorkers and Americans.

Our goal must be to establish an economic climate that is business friendly and encourages the entrepreneurial spirits of all Americans.

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