IL GOP Gubernatorial debate online

The IL GOP has made last Thursday's GOP Gubernatorial debate available online.

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[Jerry Vachaparambil]

Adam is clearly the frontrunner in this all all the other settings that I've seen! He definitely has the energy and passion of being the youngest but most polished candidate in the race...

[Dr. Health Admin]

Proft is younger.e8

[Jobs]

Jobs will be the biggest issue.

Dillard on jobs? We're going to look at things and spend time on it.

Adam? We're going to take on the unions. (What's that mean?)

Brady? Specific tax proposals. With numbers!

[Jerry Vachaparambil]

Sorry about that, Proft is 37 and Adam is 40

you could learn more about Adam's plan for job growth here: http://adamforillinois.com/Job-Growth/

[Jerry Vachaparambil]

ADAM ANDRZEJEWSKI’S PLAN: ILLINOIS JOB GROWTH
1. Make Illinois the American Magnet for entrepreneurs and job creation. Look at all of the planks in our platform. If we succeed in ending public corruption, balancing the Illinois state budget, lowering property taxes, and cutting health care costs, businesses will begin to create jobs again. By providing better education for children in failing public schools, we will have created yet another reason for existing businesses to remain and new businesses to locate here.
Adam Andrzejewski has unique insight into what it takes to create jobs. You see, job creation and job losses are not a function of jobs programs. Jobs are created and lost at the margins.

In 1997, Adam Andrzejewski and his brother started a company from scratch. Over the course of the next 10 years, they built a company that employed hundreds of people. In their 3rd year, they entered a period where it was a struggle. One more tax, one more expensive regulation, one more steep property tax assessment, and they may have lost that business. You can bet that during that time, they weren't thinking about creating new positions. As a successful businessman, Adam not only talked to small business owners in 50,000 face-to-face meetings. He has experienced first-hand what it takes to create jobs and grow a business, Adam will bring his years of business experience and knowledge with him to Springfield.

Illinois is now at a phase where existing businesses are highly taxed and regulated while their sales and profits are dropping. Businesses outside of Illinois (or some enterprising entrepreneurs) are not likely to dive into Illinois to open up a new site. These new and existing businesses aren't looking for help from "Zero-Sum" incentive programs administered by inefficient Springfield bureaucrats. They are looking for Illinois to lower the cost of doing business here.

2. Create jobs by lowering the cost of business. Since 2003, over 300 fees/taxes have been levied on Illinois businesses. These fees push businesses and their jobs out of Illinois, making Illinois comparably less attractive vs. our neighboring states. Furthermore, Illinois' the business environment created by Illinois' special brand of insider-driven government makes it hard for business to predict where the next tax or regulation might hit them.

This was a poor way to lower the cost of business. The never-ending drive to increase state revenues is doomed to fail. Too few Springfield insiders understand that when you tax something, (employment, infrastructure) you receive less of it. Another factor driving business from Illinois is the high cost of locating in Illinois. One example is the the private sector electric rate increase of $2.3 billion. Endorsed by Springfield, it was later determined that this measure cost Illinois more than 20,000 jobs and forced 6,300 people to move to another state! (source: Citizens Utility Board)

Once the budget issues are addressed properly, Adam Andrzejewski will look to reverse all business fees increases passed by the Democrats since 2002. He will also look to replace the existing "zero-sum" incentives that reward some business at the expense of others with a clear and simple tax credit that any an all businesses (new and existing) can utilize.

3. Legal/Tort reform- The ‘tort tax’ costs the average Illinois family $3500 in increased goods and services. Curbing this tax has the potential of giving every family a pay raise. Adam Andrzejewski will end the Illinois reputation as a ‘judicial hell-hole.’ According to a Harris Interactive poll, Cook County is ranked 2nd worst legal environment in the country. There can be no doubt that this environment has contributed to Cook County losing jobs during the roaring 1990’s!

4. End Pay to Play: Illinois has become notorious for "it's who you know, not what you know". In fact, an LSU study states that the perception of cronyism and corruption can harm a state looking to attract new business. Adam Andrzejewski will end this perception through the numerous measures designed to bring honest, effective government to Illinois. This will ensure that employers know that Illinois is going to open for business.

What should a "Tax Credit" plan look like?
Recently, one of our opponents in the Governor's race touted a tax credit idea. It is supposed to be a "10% tax credit (off of what tax?), up to $2,100 for a business that creates a new job (how is that defined?). This is one half of a good idea, but it shows that our opponents don't really understand job creation.

First off, Illinois needs to balance its budget so that citizens and business are not on the hook for never-ending tax increases and debt. Second, incentives to create jobs need to directly address an existing budget problem. This means that any tax credit must directly reduce a strain on the state's budget, and if possible, allow for cuts in state bureaucracy.

Adam's supports job-creating tax credits. However, he envisions a plan that addresses the budget issue directly by connecting any tax credit to a) removing a worker off of the Illinois unemployment rolls, and b) eliminating the need for wasteful, zero-sum bureaucracies like the DCEO or the IETC.

[Get with it.]

One thing we know from the Illinois Review comments - Andrzejewski clearly has the neighbor-and-child's-godparent-vote all wrapped up. I guess Jerry thinks the more words he puts on these pages, then maybe Adam will expand beyond this one vote.

[PO'd GOP Voter]

Adam is parroting Proft. When he tries to go outside of Proft's ideas, he's much less articulate.

[Jerry Vachaparambil]

Adam's ideas are all sourced. Unlike Proft he isn't cocky enough to claim ownership to all his ideas.

He gets ideas from organizations that study public policy and think outside the box like the Illinois Policy Institute, Chicago Civic Federation, Citizen's Utility Board,...

I was trying to show you some of Adam's policies and actions that he could take to promote jobs and deal with unions.

[John Bambenek]

Adam put his entire platform on his website March 1st, when he announced. Dan Proft announced in June and has only a few planks of a platform on his website.

How exactly is Adam parroting Dan when Dan is the latecomer to the show again?

I checked the State Board of Elections Website... I didn't see Miss Cleo on Adam's payroll.

[Pro-Growth, Pro-Proft]

I suppose "clout for kids" came to Adam in his sleep. Honestly, go to the debates and listen to Adam in case you missed what Dan said the week before. He should be embarrassed.

[Spense]

Adam clearly won again........ No GOP RINO this year!