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On the Economy
I have a three point plan to revitalize Michigan’s economy, in bullet text it is: - Eliminate the Single Business Tax and replace it with a fair, equitable, profitbased tax.
- Introduce legislation to simplify, streamline and greatly speed up the permitting process for buildings and new business developments.
- Introduce legislation holding the various State regulatory bodies accountable for enforcing the rules they oversee and protecting licensed businesses from unlicensed practices. In short: requiring departments who charge a fee to license a business provide the services the business community pays for.
- Compose a package of bills and incentives that would create a Mecca of Michigan for small business startups and business investments.
On the Sanctity of Life
I believe that life begins at conception, that all life is sacred and that every human being is created in the image and likeness of our Creator. As complete and unique human beings, each of us, including those not yet born, are endowed with the same inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that are guaranteed to all by our Bill of Rights. Since the first duty of the law is to prevent the shedding of innocent blood, and since the unborn are the most thoroughly innocent, totally dependent and utterly vulnerable citizens of our society, it would stand to reason that the protection of the unborn would be our ultimate responsibility. Certainly then, abortion denies these rights and protections most resolutely to those who are most helplessly dependent and is unacceptable in any quarter. Further, it is unconscionable in any circumstance to take the life of an innocent human being for the crimes of the father.
On Property Rights
Property ownership is the bedrock premise of a free society and while I would agree with a government “taking” of property providing fair and just compensation to the owner which is used for the common defense, (such as building a missile defense battery, early warning radar site, etc.) or for the common good, (such as building a levy on waterfront property, or a bridge where the site is the only one feasible for that purpose) there can be no justifiable reason for taking property from one private party to give it to another, let alone for the cause of increasing tax revenue from that property. I would be in favor of legislation that would forever prevent such a thing at all levels of government and would work to insure its passage.
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