A Better Deal for Delaware

The nation’s median household income increased for the second straight year in 2006, but it still has not rebounded to the level at the start of the decade. Incomes for 1999 have been adjusted for inflation.

Delaware Income 1996 per household. 57,334
Delaware Income 2006 per household 52,833 A drop of 7.8%

The key to making Delaware the First State in this Great Nation is to increase economic growth and restrict runaway government spending.

We need to pursue a Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights which keeps budget increases to a maximum of inflation plus population growth and have a top down independent review of all state agencies for efficiency, purpose and value to the taxpayer.

To increase economic growth we must tackle the issue of health care, offer large tax incentives for start up and small businesses and look for a replacement for the Chrysler Plant in Newark, De.

A Better Deal for Delaware announces two ideas for jobs and growth:

1. Doesn’t Delaware deserve a pro jobs plan that the heads of the NFIB, DSCC and AFL CIO could recommend to the new Governor within 180 days?

2. Doesn’t Delaware Deserve a Balanced Growth policy which allows local authorities to develop plans for growth and the state providing the execution of building the infrastructure?

The WSJ reported the more aggressive stance state governments have taken to push the agenda that Washington has forgotten because of Iraq and the war on terror. One of those priorities are JOBS, which has taken on new importance in Delaware. What can a state government do to increase job growth? The answer is not to grow the state budget or hire more state workers.

1. Address Health Care in a rational way that provides the network for private insurance for every citizen where everyone is in, no one is out and everyone pays their fair share.

2. Address Education not as a “schools” issue but a “kids” issue. We need to have testing that measures progress, reflects teacher training, student curriculum and supports kids not a larger and larger bureaucracy.

3. Reduce costly “lawsuit abuse” and over regulation. Small firms are most hurt by our lottery system of litigation. We must reduce the bite of injury and unscrupulous lawyers by limiting the fee percentages of damages and not allowing lawsuits where regulatory standards and rules have been followed.

4. Control government spending to limit increases no more than inflation and population growth. Government can’t spend money wisely; never has , never will.