Martha Roby Releases First Priority in Roadmap for Alabama

(MONTGOMERY, AL) – Today Martha Roby released the first of four conservative priorities in her Roadmap for Alabama, detailing her plan to jumpstart the economy and get the Second District back to work.

The Roadmap for Alabama consists of four conservative priorities the campaign will release over the next two weeks. The plan lays out Roby’s vision for conservative change in Washington that will make our economy, military, and families stronger.

“Washington is broken, and the only way to fix it is to elect people who will fight for conservative change,” said Martha Roby, Republican candidate for Alabama’s Second Congressional District. “The economy is stuck in neutral, spending is out of control, and Washington just isn’t listening. We can do better.”

“I know the private sector – not the government – is the key to our economic recovery,” said Roby. “We’ve seen the Democrats’ plan and it’s not working. More spending and bigger government is not the answer. We must unleash the engine of economic growth, and allow Americans to innovate, start and grow businesses, and create jobs.”

Among the solutions Roby proposes are putting money back in the hands of job creators, stopping job-killing regulations, using market-based policies to reduce health care costs, and achieving energy security. 
 
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Martha Roby’s Roadmap for Alabama

Priority One: Unleash American ingenuity to grow the economy, create jobs, and get our country back on track.

We need to put Alabama’s Second District back to work. We simply cannot sustain more double-digit unemployment and an economy stuck in neutral. Without a strong economy, both the country as a whole and individual families suffer. We’ve seen the Democrats’ plan – stimulus spending, government takeover of private companies, and more burdensome regulations – and it’s not working. More spending and bigger government is not the answer. We must unleash the engine of economic growth, and allow Americans to innovate, start and grow businesses, and create jobs.

There’s a better way to get Alabama’s economy back on track and create jobs:

1. Keep taxes low and reform the tax code to make it simpler. We need to put money back in the hands of job creators.
2. Stop imposing burdensome regulations like Cap and Trade and the federal health care mandate that kill jobs and hurt businesses.
3. Make health care more affordable, accessible and portable.
4. Open up foreign markets so that Alabama’s farmers and manufacturers have a level playing field.
5. Reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
6. Improve our education system to ensure we maintain a skilled workforce that can compete in the global economy.

A Record of Conservative Solutions

On the City Council Martha has fought to make Montgomery a better place to do business by fighting against higher taxes, fixing our schools, providing efficient services, and keeping the city safe. In 2008, Martha fought against five proposed tax increases alone. Martha championed a sales tax holiday for Montgomery businesses and led the fight against an increase in business licensing fees. Martha understands that government needs to make is easier for businesses to create jobs, not harder.

Action Plan for the Future 

In Congress Martha Roby will fight for policies that will grow our economy, not the government, and create jobs for hardworking Americans. Martha will work with likeminded Representatives to:

• Reform the tax code to make it simpler, fairer, and lower
• Permanently extend the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for ALL Americans
• Abolish the death tax, which hurts family businesses and farms
• Stop and repeal job-killing regulations and mandates like those included in Cap and Trade and the health care bill
• Accomplish REAL health care reform with common sense, free market solutions like allowing individuals to purchase health care across state lines, changing the tax code to treat individual plans the same as employer-based plans, promoting Health Savings Accounts, and implementing medical malpractice reform
• Pursue an “all of the above approach” to energy, with more domestic oil exploration, more nuclear energy, more clean coal, and more alternative sources like biodiesel, solar, and wind. More energy sources mean more jobs
• Fight for Alabama’s farmers and manufacturers by opening foreign markets to their products
• Cut red tape to give state and local policymakers greater ability to implement innovative education reforms 
  

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