Economy & Jobs

My entire career has been focused on championing the needs of small businesses, entrepreneurs and our farm families. In the State Senate, I chaired the committees responsible for cutting wasteful spending and removing burdensome regulations from our business owners and farm families while leading the fight against implementation of Obamacare and its mandates during Senate floor debate. 

Our small businesses, entrepreneurs, and farmers are the economic engine of this state and nation.  Right now they are dying a death by a thousand cuts because the government continues to pile regulation upon regulation and tax after tax on their backs to the point that there is little incentive left to be in business.  As a result, our economy remains stagnate and the American Dream is slipping away from many. 

We must create a business climate that is friendly to capital investment and job creation.  We achieve that by getting rid of onerous rules and regulations that are making it difficult for our job creators to get access to credit and cost them unnecessary time and money.  This includes the repeal of Obamacare. 

We also need to reform our tax code so that it enables those who work hard and do well to keep more of their money, enabling them to reinvest in and grow their business.  Profitable, growing businesses is the only way to produce a growing job market.  

Finally, it is past time for America to become serious about energy independence. I support an all-of-the-above energy policy that will enable us to safely tap our energy potential and lessen our dependence on foreign oil.  In fact, it should be our goal to be the number one exporter of oil and natural gas.  We have the natural resources available to us to reach that goal if we will get serious about it. 

Our small businesses, entrepreneurs, and farmers are the economic engine of this state and nation.