Issue Position: Job Creation

Issue Position

The number one issue on voters' minds is jobs security and economic opportunity.

The 22nd District has a bounty of resources and wonderful people. Unfortunately, today
our unemployment rate is three-quarters of a percentage point higher than that of Virginia at large. So how do we make it better? First of all, we desperately must create a climate that attracts businesses and employers.

One-time incentives are great, and the concept is wonderful but the best way to attract jobs for the long-term is to create a climate that fosters businesses wanting to do business here in the 22nd District

How do we do that?

Cut or Eliminate Virginia's Corporate Income Tax:

Any economist, whether Keynesian, Smith, or Austrian in school, will tell you that a corporate income tax is a misnomer. A business or corporate entity, whether small or large, passes expenses on to you and me -- the consumer. Therefore, corporate income tax is a veiled form a double taxation. It cuts from the businesses bottom-line and raises their cost of doing business.

Lets lower or eliminate the Corporate income tax and bring jobs into the 22nd Senate District. Lets take those jobs from California, take those jobs from New York, and any other states that are anti-business. We will have a better business climate and we can bring them here.

Eliminate the Fourth Branch of Government:

The next thing we need to do is look at the fourth branch of government. When the founders created our government they gave us the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches.

However, a fourth branch has emerged from the Executive branch and that is the administrative and regulatory branch.

A small business person in Buckingham County told me a few weeks ago that he couldn't sneeze without filling out several pages of state or federal paperwork

The EPA, OSHA, and DEQ here in Virginia have all manner of regulations: how many gallons of water can flow in our showers, what type of light bulb you can use, what crops a farmer can plant. Burdensome and heavy regulations are the heavy hand of the administrative branch of government has tied the hands of workers and employers in the 22nd District.

UNTIE THOSE HANDS!

Reduce those regulations and create a climate that allows individual to take the initiative to make decisions for their business, about what's best for their businesses, for their families, and for their communities.

Small business creates the bulk of the jobs in America and this is how we can energize small business.

Join my campaign today and lets bring jobs and business back to the 22nd and the rest of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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