Issues

Jobs and the Economy

With unemployment at an all-time high and millions more underemployed, Washington needs a serious pro-growth jobs push that will get our country's economy back on track.

Congress needs to create an economy where private businesses and entrepreneurs can grow and prosper and create millions of jobs for Americans.

As your next Congressman, I will make sure Washington gets out of the way of America's job creators, entrepreneurs and innovators and focuses on making America the center of job creation and business development in the global economy.

We can do this by reviewing and repealing regulations that cripple our local mom and pop stores and kills millions of American jobs.  We can do this by having a tax system that is the most economically competitive in the world and fair for hardworking, middle-class Americans.  We can do this by giving incentives to companies to reinvest their money back into the United States, its workers and its infrastructure.

These are common sense, bipartisan solutions that Washington has to failed to act upon.  As your next Congressman, I will not let political gridlock get in the way of people's livelihood and our country's success.

Debt and Deficit

Our National Debt stands at $15 trillion, our annual budget deficit for this year is $1.5 trillion and politicians in Washington can’t agree on any solution to pay down our debt and balance our budget.

Let me be clear: Washington does not have a revenue problem. It has a spending problem.  Our path to a balanced budget should include targeted spending cuts and closing tax loopholes that favor a select group of individuals or businesses.  When some make billions but pay 0% in taxes, you know the system isn’t working for everyday, hard-working Americans.

As we balance the budget, we must not lose sight of the key functions and programs we must protect: making sure we keep our promises to seniors, provide for our nation’s defense, and invest in new roads, bridges and infrastructure to help create more jobs and a stronger economy.

Keeping Our Promises to Seniors

Over 55 million seniors depend on their Social Security benefits to keep their lights on, pay their prescriptions and stock their refrigerators.  As your next member of Congress, I will work day in and day out to ensure that the promises made to seniors are kept.

It starts by repealing the $500 billion cut to Medicare that Congress passed and the President signed into law in 2009.  Medicare is a crucial program for tens of millions of seniors, and while it should be improved, taking $500 billion from seniors is an outrage.

Also, seniors should not be expected to pay taxes on their Social Security income.  They’ve already paid taxes on that money and should not be hit with another tax from the federal government, especially when seniors go year after year without a cost of living adjustment.

Changing the rules for the hardest-working generation in our history is unacceptable.  I will fight to make sure that the promises made to our seniors' benefits will be kept.