Issues

Economy / Jobs

• Make Connecticut a better place to run a business by lowering corporate and personal income tax rates
• Provide tax incentives to businesses that create new jobs
• Cut the high number of burdensome state regulations
• Require a cost-benefit analysis on all health-care mandates that increase the cost of health insurance

Public Safety

• Enact a tougher "3 Stikes and You're Out" law to put the worst of the worst offenders in jail for life
• Reform the parole system, including requiring GPS monitoring for violent offenders who are paroled back into the community
• Prevent serial rapists from moving back into residential neighborhoods

Education

• Ensure that new accountability measures are used, so that taxpayers' money is not spent on school programs that are underperforming
• Allow Regional Vocational Education centers to charge a higher tuition to those outside municipalities
• Fight to further increase educational funding to small towns
• Fully fund the Teachers' Retirement Fund every year, thereby addressing the large unfunded liability