Jon Golnik
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This election matters!
We are a nation of people who move forward and look to improve our future for our kids. We use the knowledge and lessons of our past to learn from and advance. Those decisions from yesterday are the foundations of our decisions tomorrow. And tomorrow, we want to improve. That is why I am running for Congress.
We are in economic turmoil. Our housing market is decimated. Our financial position on the global market has dwindled. Our spending is at historic levels, and our unemployment rate is frighteningly high. Poor legislation and the voice of special interests have taken over for the voices of the people.
Our Representative Niki Tsongas has voted with Nancy Pelosi 98 percent of the time on some of the destructive bills I am referring to: a trillion dollar stimulus package that not only failed to create the promised jobs, but also put generations in debt; a job killing, trillion-dollar-plus health care law that increases costs and limits access; an energy tax that would implement the largest tax increase on families in American history and employ massive regulation and cost increases on business; and bail out after bail out.
And how about that massive expansion of government through new bureaucracies, agencies and a czar layer of government. All these things have to be paid for and have put us into a $13 trillion debt.
We are in a tough spot. We cannot just sit back and complain, however. The resilience of Americans is one of our greatest attributes, and our ability to come back from crisis, one of our most admirable traits. A new Congress can help do both.
Here's how we can solve some of what ails us:
1. Put the unspent stimulus money toward our debt.
2. Require any companies who have accepted TARP money and are showing a profit to begin paying the money back and put it toward the debt.
3. Repeal Obamacare and replace it with solutions that reduce costs and increase access.
4. Stop all bail outs and let the free market work.
5. Reduce the over-regulation that is strangling businesses.
6. Extend the Bush tax cuts. Not doing so will cause a tax increase for people across the board — an economically deadly move in the midst of a recession.
7. Reduce the corporate tax rate. We have the second highest in the world and wonder why businesses are failing or moving out.
8. Lower the capital gains tax rate and eliminate the death tax.
9. STOP THE SPENDING.
These are not my only goals in Washington. We need to shore up our borders and stop the magnets for illegal immigrants such as tax-paid benefits and employment. We need to maintain vigilance with the nations that are breeding grounds for terrorists who want to kill us.
Let us be inspired, as our forefathers were, to fix the problems of our past and improve them for our future. In Congress, that is what I will do.
