JOB CREATION/ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• Creating the conditions in government that enable businesses of all sizes to grow and prosper.
• A tax moratorium on all North Carolina manufactured goods.
• Protecting North Carolina's "right to work" status.
• Eliminating burdensome government regulations.

• Reducing and flattening the tax rate to be the lowest and simplest in the Southeast.
• Across the board reductions in corporate, personal income and sales tax rates.
• Rolling back "temporary" taxes enacted over the past several budgets.
• Eliminating all state capital gains & interest income taxes.

• Auditing state agencies & programs as to their effectiveness, and then improving or eliminating.
• Full transparency in the budgeting process, based on clearly established state spending priorities.
• Limiting the growth of state government spending to not more than inflation plus population growth.
• Privatizing non-core state functions.
• Ensuring a public vote on state debt.

• Empowering teachers & school leaders to make decisions at the local level.
• Continuing to invest in the community college and state university system.
• Creating a vocational educational track to lower the high school drop-out rate.
• Lifting the cap on Charter schools.
• Funding students, not bureaucrats.