ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS

Spending & Debt

Our national debt is approaching immoral, unsustainable levels from out of control spending. Washington must learn to live within its means like every American household does. To do that we must:

a. Reform Entitlements and the Tax Code

As the cost of entitlements explodes our Nation’s Security is threatened and our country will go bankrupt like Greece. We must responsibly address these spiraling costs while keeping our word with our most vulnerable citizens. At the same time, the only way we can afford our future is by spurring rapid growth through boldly simplifying the tax code.

SOLUTION: Keep our promises by keeping Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare solvent, by reforming them and at the same time generate the revenue required by flattening and simplifying the tax code.

b. End the Fraud, Waste, Abuse

The federal government wasted over $500M on Solyndra in one year alone – that’s all the federal income taxes paid by about 80,000 families. Americans will pay their taxes as long as their dollars aren’t wasted by politicians.

SOLUTION: Performance Audits that match funding to metrics, like business.

c. Balance the Budget, Like States Do

We can’t rely on China to keep buying our debt forever, and we can’t trust Washington to do the right thing. We have to tie their hands and force them to live within their means, so we can pay down the Debt and our children will have a future.

SOLUTION: Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to force Washington to live within its means.

Jobs & The Economy

Our economy stagnated after its dramatic crash, and the policies of the last 3 years failed to revive it. The best way to revive our economy and give our neighbors the dignity of a job is:

a. American Energy Policy

End our reliance of foreign oil through American energy sources, such as liquid natural gas, nuclear and oil exploration – and build the Keystone Pipeline to bring North American oil to the US.

SOLUTION: Energy Policy that lowers the cost of energy by creating it here.

b. Regulatory Reform

Reduce the burden on entrepreneurs and businesses that is strangling jobs, while maintaining a safe, clean environment for our children.

SOLUTION: Cut regulations that strangle jobs, and enforce current laws that keep us safe, and prove new regulations are not redundant and will grow jobs.

c. Healthcare Reform

Since Obamacare passed, our health costs have continued to go up, our choices have continued to go down, and millions are still uninsured. The cost of full implementation is potentially catastrophic, and still unknown. We need real reform that will get the job done, and people and businesses can understand.

SOLUTION: Repeal unconstitutional Obamacare, and pass health care reforms that will actually reduce costs and increase access.

American Exceptionalism

a. Immigration Reform

Legal immigration is a powerful engine of growth, and made our nation exceptional in the world. We need to secure our borders first, then have a discussion on legal immigration.

SOLUTION: Secure the border first.

b. Traditional Marriage

In 1996, Bill Clinton proudly defended marriage, and defined it as one man and one woman. The traditional family is the foundation of everything we hold dear, and the basis by which we “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”

SOLUTION: Preserve the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman.

c. Education Reform

Parents don’t have enough control in the public schools – parents should be able to choose what school their children attend, and their tax dollars should follow their children.

SOLUTION: Allow parents to take their children and taxes to schools they choose