Bringing jobs back to America
Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, yet they’re treated like an afterthought while massive corporations get special tax breaks, carve outs, and loopholes written just for them. That’s backwards. We need to give small businesses the same opportunities and tax relief that big corporations enjoy, especially when it comes to keeping jobs right here in America.
Taxpayer dollars should never reward companies that ship production overseas, or hire illegal labor instead of American citizens. Every federal incentive should go to businesses that invest in our communities, hire American workers, and strengthen our economy at home. If a company takes U.S. tax benefits, it should be committed to U.S. jobs!
At the same time, excessive federal regulations are suffocating American industry. Manufacturing, oil and gas, steel, transportation, and construction are drowning in red tape that raises costs, slows projects, and puts small operators out of business. These regulations don’t just hurt companies, they hit families through higher prices, lost jobs, and weaker local economies.
My Economic Policy Priorities
1. Put Small Businesses on a Level Playing Field
- Extend the same tax deductions and credits to small businesses that large corporations receive.
- Expand Section 179 expensing so small businesses can immediately deduct equipment, vehicles, and tools.
- Simplify tax compliance so business owners spend time growing, not filling out paperwork.
2. End Incentives for Outsourcing & Illegal Labor
- Eliminate federal tax incentives for companies that offshore jobs.
- Deny subsidies and contracts to companies that knowingly employ illegal labor.
- Prioritize American labor in federal infrastructure and energy projects.
3. Cut Red Tape & Overregulation
- Roll back federal regulations that duplicate state oversight, or add no real safety benefit.
- Require cost benefit analysis before new regulations are imposed on small businesses.
- Protect independent contractors and tradesmen from being regulated out of work.
4. Pass the FairTax Act
- Replace the complex corporate tax system with a transparent, consumption based tax.
- Eliminate corporate income taxes that drive jobs and investment overseas.
- Reward productivity, savings, and investment while keeping businesses in America.
5. Restore Fairness to the Economy
- End government favoritism toward politically connected corporations.
- Encourage competition, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
- Make the United States the best place in the world to start, grow, and keep a business.
Our Founding Fathers believed in free people and free markets, not government micromanagement. Alexander Hamilton wrote that prosperity depends on policies that “encourage industry and reward enterprise”. The Anti-Federalists warned that when government favors the powerful, “commerce and the laboring man are both oppressed”. Those warnings are just as true today.
It’s time to return to an economy that rewards hard work, independence, and innovation, not political connections or global outsourcing. By standing with small businesses, cutting red tape, and bringing jobs back home, we can rebuild an America that works for everyone, not just the elite few.