Steve Pearce: Getting New Mexico back to work

Steve Pearce

From NMPolitics.net - Over the last three years, Americans have witnessed their friends and family, or they themselves, losing their jobs. Despite trillions in federal spending, our economy remains stagnant. In fact, just last month, 4,400 fellow New Mexicans lost their jobs. What is going on? Right now, businesses and individuals are scared of the pending tax increases, increased regulation, and the explosion in government spending and debt. Keeping taxes high will actually cost far more, due to lost revenue from lack of job growth, and according to a recent study by the Heritage Foundation, it will cost the entire country an average of almost 800,000 jobs annually. While there has been a lot of talk from both the White House and Congress about extending the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, the lack of results shows that they never took this issue seriously to begin with. Read more here:

Steve Pearce: Getting New Mexico back to work