Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   economy--again & again !!! Date:   4/15/2015 8:45:56 AM

Here's my list:

• Repeal and replace Obamacare with sensible reforms that are market driven with a safety net for those that truly need it
• Greatly simplify the tax code and reduce the size of the IRS (flat tax, etc.)
• Eliminate corporate welfare, fund R&D only and no more tax money given directly to corporations for extraneous nonsense like green energy
• Eliminate extraneous federal agencies and replace with block grants to states
• Reduce the corporate tax rate to at least be competitive with the rest of the industrialized world which will encourage them to keep their operations and profits in the US
• Make unions illegal for federal, state and local government employees
• Reign in out of control agencies like EPA, DOL, IRS, OSHA, etc.
• Reduce the tax rate for individuals across the board with a flat tax or a more simplified one
• Begin to phase in increasing the retirement age for SS and allow partial privatization for younger people
• Get the federal government out of the student loan business altogether.  OK to have a needs based scholarship program for low income students that have the aptitude.
• Repeal Sarbanes Oxley
• Repeal Frank Dodd

As you can see, the common theme here is that I see government not as the solution to our problems, but as the problem (creds to Ronald Reagan).  I see it every single day as a small business owner and it is sickening.