Issue Position: Grow Our Economy

Issue Position

Obscene amounts of federal dollars flow into our State but healthy economic growth will never come from the government sector. I will fight to reduce the government burden on the private sector economy and where appropriate, use government influence to promote private sector growth. The less we have to rely on the federal dollar, the healthier our State will be.

A sure way to stimulate our economy is to develop our natural resources, responsibly. Anyone who has been to the North Slope knows that resources can be developed with minimal impact to the environment. We are a resource rich State and should use those resources to our advantage.

We need to promote our entrepreneurs and their ideas. Look to your neighbors who own businesses to grow our economy. We need to diversify, innovate, and keep wealth flowing into our communities, not out of them.

One-way government can stimulate growth is to provide incentives for private investment that generates wealth which remains in our communities. Oil tax credits stimulated resource development. Proven to work in the oil industry, we need to apply the concept to other areas of the private sector… and the people's government must live up to its end of the bargain.

We need to promote agricultural self-sufficiency. A purchase of food from a national supermarket sends money out of our communities. Money spent on local food ends up with local farmers and businesses and remains in the community. More agricultural transactions occurring within our communities fuel job creation and more income for local businesses.

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