Issue Position: Economic Policy

Issue Position

We must return to our free market roots in order to help restore economic prosperity. A jumbled mishmash of special interest loopholes, incentives, subsidies, unneccesary regulations and other attempts to manipulate our national economic marketplace have led to a malaise of stagnant economic growth and poor job growth.

We should end subsidies of companies and industries that cannot survive on their own. If they have a product that provides a legitimate good or service that people want to benefit from, they will survive without any help from the taxpayers. Further, we've seen time and again how government attempting to pick the winners and loser only ends in disaster. Obama's failed energy subsidies and billions in losses in tax payer dollars are evidence enough of that. No government program or czar can match the billions of individual everyday decisions made by our fellow citizens. Consumers are the finger on the pulse of every industry and product, and the free markets always drives innovation for better products that cost less, and are available to more people.

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