Since my decision to run for state office this past summer I have had many people ask my why I would want to run for office. I can answer that very simply:
- The time is now to serve.
- I am a Minnesotan who loves living in this state and wants our state to prosper and be a better place for our children to settle and to raise their families.
There are many issues facing our state and our country. In order to ensure that we overcome the economic troubles our state is facing both in the public and the private sector we must use free market principles to limit the scope of government in private business, reduce taxes, and make Minnesota a more attractive state for business. That is what is needed now to grow jobs and achieve economic security.
Currently Minnesota is ranked as 43rd out of 50, according to The Tax Foundation, for business friendly tax climates. http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/25229.html Which means that there are 42 other states that have better business conditions than MN. Is it any wonder that companies are leaving our state for other states and taking good paying jobs with them?
We must immediately cut corporate income taxes and onerous regulations. This alone will entice businesses to locate in Minnesota. With business comes jobs!
Minnesotans are hard working, dedicated individuals who would rather work and take care of their families than to rely on an overbearing state government for their sustinance. Turn lose the entrepreneurs in our state and instead of being one of the last states to recover Minnesota will be one of the first. One only has to look to California to see what unbridled spending, taxation, and regulation will do to a state! We are not California, we are Minnesotans and we believe in the people knowing better, not the government.
In the words of Ronald Reagan, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
