Jobs
 Excessive regulations and taxes create barriers for businesses preventing job creation and slow growth.
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Employers create jobs in order to advance business and serve their customers. Excessive regulations and taxes limit the ability of businesses to grow and create jobs; however, business owners can only bear the burden of taxation by cutting costs and raising prices. Cost cutting leads to layoffs and unemployment. Raising prices leads to fewer sales, which also leads to cost cutting measures and fewer jobs.
Having spent decades of my career in the private sector and owning my own business, I understand the conflicts between business and governments and I will work to repeal bad legislation that continues to hurt Colorado jobs. |
Economy
 I believe a free and competitive market is essential to a thriving economy!
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Contrary to claims that greedy businessmen have no concern for people or the environment, a competitive market compels businesses to seek out and meet the needs and wants of their customers. Only satisfied customers generate sustained profits.
In order for our businesses to compete, government needs to assist the economy by letting businesses do what they do best –providing the goods and services desired by their customers and allowing for those who ignore their consumers to suffer the consequences of their failures. As your representative, I will always look for ways to minimize the impacts of government by creating less bureaucracy. |
Uncontrolled Spending
 In hard times, families and businesses must reduce spending in all areas of their budgets. I believe state and federal governments must do the same.
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Any organization that allows its budget to become so wildly unbalanced is destined to run into problems. If we allow half of our programs to consume 90% of the budget, how will we pay for the other half? To cover shortfalls in the general fund, the governor and the legislature have been raising fees and taxes and transferring money from funds meant to cover other needs, including compensating local jurisdictions for impacts from mining and drilling operations.
How long can we continue to raise taxes, putting a larger burden on individuals and businesses that provide the revenue for state programs? As your representative, I will be a voice for lower taxes, smaller government, conservative spending, and respect for the spirit of TABOR which the voters clearly expected to be followed. |
