To boost our economy we need small business tax cuts and money directed towards improving our roads and bridges.

The best way to stimulate our economy is targeted small business tax cuts and to increase infrastructure spending to improve our roads and bridges.  We need to keep your money in your hands and therefore must resist increasing taxes and creating new taxes, which is wrong to do during a recession.

I voted against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 because there was too much spending in this “so-called” stimulus bill.  The cost of the bill was $787 billion, with interest that means $1.3 trillion.  There was too much spending on existing and the expansion of government programs that will do nothing to stimulate our economy.  I voted against this bill because it increased discretionary spending by almost 10%, created dozens of new government programs and significantly raised the baseline on which future spending cannot be sustained without large tax increases.

I supported an alternative stimulus and budget plan which would have created more jobs, lowered taxes and put significant dollars toward infrastructure projects like Omaha’s sewer separation plan.