>Scott Garrett :Empowering American Businesses to Create Jobs, Opportunity and Wealth
Fostering an environment where businesses can hire and invest in America’s workforce is my top priority as we begin the second session of the 112th Congress.
To date, the Senate has blocked 27 House-passed jobs bills that would promote economic growth by eliminating the burdens of government from the very businesses we depend on to create jobs. Business leaders have a responsibility to make decisions based on what’s best for the long-term strength of their companies; they need to know the price of doing business in America so they have the certainty to take risks to grow and expand.
As opposed to fostering an environment where our government criticizes and penalizes businesses for not doing things their way, the Republican jobs plan takes a different approach. Instead, we seek to empower the pioneers that create jobs, opportunity and wealth by establishing a stable, predictable environment that encourages competition and innovation. Less government obstruction, a simplified tax plan, improved financial laws to promote access to capital and domestic energy production are all components to our comprehensive plan.
The President’s health care overhaul, rising national debt, threats of raising taxes, and a complicated and burdensome regulatory process have business owners hunkering down instead of investing in the future. Every dollar the government takes translates to one less dollar in the pockets of the American people.
In his State of the Union address this week, President Obama quoted Abraham Lincoln who once said, “You cannot help men permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.” As much as the president enjoys invoking Lincoln’s wisdom of limited government, his administration’s policies have been far from similar to Lincoln’s. We cannot afford another year of the same failed policies, which is why House Republicans will not give up on our mission to put an economic recovery in the hands of American innovators.
Sincerely,
Scott Garrett