Restore Jobs
- Get Lansing Out of the Way of Job Providers
- Time is Money
- Create one-stop shop to streamline business permit/license process to reduce time spent dealing with Lansing.
- Reduce the Cost of Doing Business
- State must stop picking winners and losers in business.
- Tax breaks for winners, movie industry, are paid for by all other loser businesses.
- Reduce overall business tax.
Revive Business
- Cut Taxes and Eliminate Red Tape
- Eliminate MBT, 22% surcharge
- Eliminate personal property tax on small business.
- State regulations, red tape, no more stringent than Federal regulations.
- Create a “Right to Compete” State
- Make Michigan a right-to-work State. First step toward right to work is right to compete.
- Right to compete requires government to bid services in the open market. Every 5 years existing government bargaining units have the “right to compete” and bid for the work.
Reduce State Government
- Cut Spending – Limit the Size of Government
- Align public and private health care benefits. Public employees pay 20% of health benefits saves $800 million.
- Privatize prison services. Saves $40 million through right to compete open market bidding.
- Reduce welfare fraud by $44 million
- Bring Lean Government to Lansing
- Run the State like a business.
- 3-year budgets, like Oakland County, plan ahead.
- Quarterly revenue review, not current twice a year; be able to adjust faster to change.
- Part-time legislature will get more done in less time and allow business people to serve in legislature and keep their “day” jobs.
Reform Education
- Align employee health care benefits with private sector. Stop overspending on benefits; start spending on classroom and education.
- Measure teacher performance. Use benchmarks to measure. Reward good teachers and improve or remove bad teachers.
- Stop teaching to the MEAP. Eliminate the MEAP and use existing national standard test to measure student performance.
- Consolidate small districts to reduce administrative and non-teaching costs.
