Issue Position: Economy

Issue Position

As the owner of two small businesses, Kim understands that unpredictable regulation and tax policies get in the way of creating jobs. She pushes for common sense ways to reduce the costs of doing business to encourage job creation.

Kim understands what it's like to sign the front of a paycheck as well as the back. She employs dozens of people at her small businesses and supports the local economy.

Kim believes there are three important steps the legislature could take to help our economy:

1) Repeal capital gains and inheritance taxes. This will attract capital and investment to our state, encourage entrepreneurship and stimulate our economy. Jobs will follow. We should also take the appropriate steps to either reduce or completely remove the burden on the economy resulting from the passages of Measures 66 and 67.

2) Fix PERS. It is on an unsustainable path that will bankrupt local governments, and further hamper the state's ability to provide critical services. Before even walking in the door next session, the State will probably be on the hook for up to half a billion dollars in additional PERS costs.

3) Responsibly utilize, manage, and capitalize on our bountiful natural resources. This would require common-sense changes to our land use and environmental laws and administrative rules that unnecessarily and effectively stop responsible, job-creating projects from moving forward.

Kim served on the House Interim Committee on Economic Development and was part of an international trade mission to Asia to build economic relations overseas, in which she paid her own expenses.

She is an active member of the Keizer Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Businesses. Kim wants a more business friendly atmosphere in Oregon to help companies expand and put more people back to work.

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