Leader Cantor Discusses An America That Works And Conservative Solutions For Health Care With Larry Kudlow
Republicans Are For An America That Works:
“Right now there is an America under Obama’s policies that is not
working. We conservatives as Republicans are for an America that works.
And the way we get there is through putting forth our conservative
solutions as alternatives to the policies this President has been about
that frankly have harmed job growth, put the middle class into a
squeeze, and that have not responded to the need for upward mobility to
those who are most vulnerable in our society, and frankly Obama’s
policies have provided a health care law that is not working. So we’re
for an America that works as conservatives, trying to pull government
back, create more space for the private sector, for families, for
communities to actually work so that we can see a better future.”
Conservative Solutions Will Help Grow Wages:
“Larry, you and I share the passion for growth. And we are about a
growing economy and a growing America for all. If you look at it right
now, what’s happened is most people in the country are wage earners, and
most people have seen their wages become very stagnant if not decline
of late. What we’re trying to do is to promote policies that can grow
paychecks. Not like the President who insists that we need Washington
telling folks how much they should pay their employees. But instead take
government out of the way of growing wages. The perfect example of that
is ObamaCare’s regulation that requires one to have a 30 hour work week
not a 40 hour work week. If we could just undo that regulation and put
back a 40 hour workweek, we could see a 25% increase in a wage-earners
check. That’s what we’re talking about – growing wages. We’re against
anything that harms job creation, and even the Congressional Budget
Office says that regulation under ObamaCare is depressing wages, it also
says that President Obama’s suggestion of increasing the minimum wage
can harm job creation. We don’t want to harm job creation, we don’t have
enough jobs. We also want to grow the economy and grow wages. We do
that by pulling government back, providing a sensible environment of
regulation so we can see more growth in businesses, in families, in
paychecks. That’s the kind of future we envision as conservatives and as
Republicans.”
Our Energy Policies Will Help Working Families:
“It’s not only pro-jobs, pro-growth from the macroeconomic standpoint,
our energy policies, maximizing our indigenous resources, but it also
can help that middle class squeeze right now, the families, who are
facing some of the highest home heating bills that they've ever faced.
How apropos is it for us to be pushing policies that actually expand our
energy supplies, that hence push down home-heating costs, so that
working, middle-class families can afford to pay the bills and continue
to save for the future and invest for the future. So we're about these
policies that, again, not only help the macro-growth prospect for the
economy, but it also helps grow the kind of paycheck and income that
working families have to be concerned with every month.”
We Will Continue To Push Pro-Growth Economic Policies:
“We have a Republican position, we believe that the tax code is
complicated, it gets in the way of capital flowing to its most efficient
use. And we can do a lot more from a growth perspective. Chairman Dave
Camp of the Ways and Means Committee has done a great job by putting
together a discussion draft. It's complicated. There are a lot of
tradeoffs involved, given the rules that we operate under here. And it's
a discussion draft to bring in more comments, more discussion, so that
we can see a better way forward for tax reform. We have a President in
the White House and a Senate that doesn't agree. We want to continue to
propose those kind of pro-growth economic policies, whether it's tax
policy, regulatory policy, or healthcare. We are, as Republicans,
committed to a better way in healthcare. To presenting an alternative
path to a better healthcare that keeps down costs, that allows for
greater access to providers. That also deals with the challenges of
those with preexisting conditions. We can do all that in a better way
that doesn’t harm people’s choice – a patient centered path.”
A Better Way Forward For Patient-Centered Health Care:
“There was an alternative that Republicans put forward back in 2009
when ObamaCare passed in the House. We also have several measures that
have been proposed by some of our members in the House of
Representatives. There's one in the Senate as well. We are going to get
behind an alternative path to better health care that lowers costs, that
increases patient choice, that is patient-centered, that allows for
access to the doctors you want to see at a lower cost. This is our aim.
And yes, we will put forward our better way of healthcare.”
Watch Leader Cantor’s full interview HERE.
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