Issue Position: I Have a Real Plan of Action to Get our Economy on Track

Issue Position

Fix Fuel Prices: The cost of fuel has a profound effect on everything we do as consumers and as businesses. By lowering fuel prices we accomplish many thing. We increase every Americans ability to travel more which is good for restaurants, hotels, and entertainment types of businesses. Lower gas prices would mean more spendable income for the average American, which translates into increases in consumer spending in general. Lower gas prices would increase businesses cash flow putting them in a good position to expand and hire new workers when the increased demand for goods and services impacted the business. To accomplish lower fuel prices we need to allow significantly more offshore drilling, open access to oil and gas reserves, abolishing highway motor fuel taxes, increasing the mileage reimbursement rates, and offer tax credits to individuals and businesses for the use and production of natural gas vehicles. Increases in energy production would cause a significant rise in high paying energy jobs. I would fight for all of these things in the pursuit of giving our country a serious economic boost, while securing our energy security.

Reward Hiring: There are businesses that currently have the ability to hire new workers but are sitting on the fence waiting for some economic incentive. That economic incentive is not coming in the form of demand for products and services yet. I would propose a bill that would reward any company that increased their number of employees by at least 10%. The increase in new workers would need to come from the pool of unemployed receiving welfare benefits, or those with expired welfare benefits. The reward would be a reduction in federal taxes equal to the increase in payroll expense for the newly hired people. The goal would be to get people back to work as productive members of society while we incentivize businesses to hire. This plan would require a time limit incentive, maybe a decreasing benefit over 3 years of 100% 50% 25%. A business that increased their workforce by at least 10% every year could stay at the 100% benefit for the three years. With our national unemployment rate above 8%, a 10% increase in hiring by even a small percentage of businesses could have a profound effect on getting Americans back to work.

Balance the Budget: We need to pass a law that requires the federal government to have a balanced budget EVERY year or the President will be required to veto it. We cannot continue to barrow $2Trillion dollars a year and expect the world or our citizens to have faith in the US economy. A balanced budget would solve endless spending problems because it would force our government to live within its means. This would also significantly increase the confidence of the world and the US consumer. Our economic recovery will be partially faith based. If people believe we are doing whats right as a government they will respond in kind with regards to their economic decisions.

Restrict or Terminate the Federal Reserve: By putting an end to the FED's ability to create money out of thin air we slow one of the greatest threats to our way of life. If we continue to keep printing more money to pay for governments future debts, we will eventually hit a point where the American Dollar has no value. I am not an alarmist or a radical, this is common economic understanding. Find any economics professor and he will tell you the same thing. The free market should control the money supply, not a private banking cartel of secret members that want the American people to be in debt to them forever. When America went off the gold standard we essentially created our own greatest threat to national security. Ending the printing of money will have a positive economic impact, and will restore faith in America as a good investment.

Avoid Making Things Worse: Currently the department of the interior has plans to designate huge amounts of land in the western states as "Wild Land". This designation would put the lands into a kind of federal administrative limbo where they will then decide if each peice will become wilderness or off limits to oil & gas drilling. Many are calling this a federal land grab because it will take the land out of the State control and severely limit economic development of rural areas that depend on these lands being accessible for everything from energy development to recreation. This policy also has the ability to cause significant increases in our costs of heating our homes and higher energy prices. States like Wyoming cannot let this happen and if elected I will fight to keep our lands in the control of the State of Wyoming.

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