It takes a lot of nerve to take credit for something you didn’t do. It takes a politician to take credit for something that hasn’t even happened.
My opponent, U. S. Rep. Phil Hare, is currently touting his alleged jobs record, patting himself on the back for how many jobs he’s created.
Unfortunately, Mr. Hare is mistaken. There are no new jobs.
In fact, the 17th congressional district is suffering from unemployment rates higher than the national average.
Instead of declaring his jobs record a success, Phil Hare should be apologizing to the district for watching the unemployment rate nearly double under his watch.
While the national unemployment rate is currently 9.9 percent, unemployment in Rock Island is 10.2 percent, up from 5.5 percent in November of 2008; 12.5 percent in Sterling, up from 7 percent; and at a staggering 13.8 percent in Decatur, up from 7 percent.
The problem doesn’t seem to be Hare’s effort towards creating jobs, but more so his understanding of how to create jobs.
You can work really hard at fixing up a car, but if you keep putting milk in the oil pan, water in the gas tank and pizza sauce in the transmission, your car isn’t going to get very far.
As someone who owns a small business and has worked his entire life in the private sector, I understand what it takes to create jobs and to fix this economy.
In order to grow our economy and get jobs back, we need to start running our government like a business.
In fact, that is the basis of my economic plan: slash wasteful spending in Washington, attract new employers with tax cuts and employment incentives, and stop all tax increases.
My opponent believes that bigger government is the answer to the job deficit. I believe responsible government and free enterprise is the solution.
I believe that raising taxes and adding more bureaucratic red tape makes it harder for employers to start businesses and harder to expand and create more jobs. My opponent believes that wasteful government spending and higher taxes will somehow fix the already terrible job climate.
While my opponent has touted temporary jobs, such as census takers, it isn’t a permanent solution.
We can create permanent jobs by cutting taxes to let Americans spend and invest their hard-earned money. If you have more money in your pocket, you can buy more goods and services, which will stimulate the economy and infuse jobs into our economy. Employers will inevitably start to hire more workers, and the cycle will continue.
That’s how economics works.
Instead, Phil Hare argues that we should be raising taxes. We’ve already seen here in Illinois what happens when you raise taxes on businesses: They take their business elsewhere. Not to the east coast or west coast; but to states that surround Illinois.
Throughout our history, we have seen that heightened taxes lead to recessions, and lower taxes lead to periods of great growth.
President Kennedy cut taxes in the early 1960s, and the economy experienced growth with increased wages and lower unemployment.
President Reagan also cut taxes in the early 1980s, and the results were remarkable: 19 million new jobs created during his eight years in office.
The historical evidence is blatant: cutting taxes creates jobs.
We can no longer afford to allow reckless politicians like Hare to manage our economy when they clearly have no idea what they are doing.
I look forward to bringing prosperity back to the 17th district when I am humbly elected to the United States Congress in November with your vote.
Bobby Schilling, a native of Rock Island, is the Republican candidate for Congress in the 17th district. He owns and operates Saint Giuseppe’s Heavenly Pizza in East Moline. He is the father of 10 children.
My opponent, U. S. Rep. Phil Hare, is currently touting his alleged jobs record, patting himself on the back for how many jobs he’s created.
Unfortunately, Mr. Hare is mistaken. There are no new jobs.
In fact, the 17th congressional district is suffering from unemployment rates higher than the national average.
Instead of declaring his jobs record a success, Phil Hare should be apologizing to the district for watching the unemployment rate nearly double under his watch.
While the national unemployment rate is currently 9.9 percent, unemployment in Rock Island is 10.2 percent, up from 5.5 percent in November of 2008; 12.5 percent in Sterling, up from 7 percent; and at a staggering 13.8 percent in Decatur, up from 7 percent.
The problem doesn’t seem to be Hare’s effort towards creating jobs, but more so his understanding of how to create jobs.
You can work really hard at fixing up a car, but if you keep putting milk in the oil pan, water in the gas tank and pizza sauce in the transmission, your car isn’t going to get very far.
As someone who owns a small business and has worked his entire life in the private sector, I understand what it takes to create jobs and to fix this economy.
In order to grow our economy and get jobs back, we need to start running our government like a business.
In fact, that is the basis of my economic plan: slash wasteful spending in Washington, attract new employers with tax cuts and employment incentives, and stop all tax increases.
My opponent believes that bigger government is the answer to the job deficit. I believe responsible government and free enterprise is the solution.
I believe that raising taxes and adding more bureaucratic red tape makes it harder for employers to start businesses and harder to expand and create more jobs. My opponent believes that wasteful government spending and higher taxes will somehow fix the already terrible job climate.
While my opponent has touted temporary jobs, such as census takers, it isn’t a permanent solution.
We can create permanent jobs by cutting taxes to let Americans spend and invest their hard-earned money. If you have more money in your pocket, you can buy more goods and services, which will stimulate the economy and infuse jobs into our economy. Employers will inevitably start to hire more workers, and the cycle will continue.
That’s how economics works.
Instead, Phil Hare argues that we should be raising taxes. We’ve already seen here in Illinois what happens when you raise taxes on businesses: They take their business elsewhere. Not to the east coast or west coast; but to states that surround Illinois.
Throughout our history, we have seen that heightened taxes lead to recessions, and lower taxes lead to periods of great growth.
President Kennedy cut taxes in the early 1960s, and the economy experienced growth with increased wages and lower unemployment.
President Reagan also cut taxes in the early 1980s, and the results were remarkable: 19 million new jobs created during his eight years in office.
The historical evidence is blatant: cutting taxes creates jobs.
We can no longer afford to allow reckless politicians like Hare to manage our economy when they clearly have no idea what they are doing.
I look forward to bringing prosperity back to the 17th district when I am humbly elected to the United States Congress in November with your vote.
Bobby Schilling, a native of Rock Island, is the Republican candidate for Congress in the 17th district. He owns and operates Saint Giuseppe’s Heavenly Pizza in East Moline. He is the father of 10 children.
Funny how people like Bobby Schilling forget that Ronald Reagan RAISED taxes several times after cutting them in his first term. That was the reason George Herbert Walker Bush pledged "Read My Lips, No New Taxes" when he ran for President in 88.
Schilling also chooses to ignore the millions of jobs that were created during the Clinton Administration AFTER Clinton RAISED taxes in 93. He also ignores the absolute fact that the US saw NO net jobs created during the eight years of the George Walker Bush administration, even though Bush cut taxes something like 5,687 times.
The only thing Phil Hare could have possibly done to do anything about this is use his ... See Moreinfluence to insert earmarks in legislation for pork barrel projects that would take place within his own district. Bobby Schilling has already stated numerous times that he is against all earmarks and all pork, which essentially means that he is against any type of job creation in his own congressional district. If Schilling's belief is that the federal government should play no role in job creation, then he should either stop complaining about the lack of federal job creation or make a run for a seat in the state legislature.
"In fact, that is the basis of my economic plan: slash wasteful spending in Washington, attract new employers with tax cuts and employment incentives, and stop all tax increases."
Well then Bobby should be congratulating Phil Hare on voting to give 95% of Americans tax relief while also giving tax credits to small businesses, like Mr. Schilling's that hire new employees. Instead he is scoring dishonest political points that only makes sense to people who exist in a fantasy world where all democrats raise all taxes all the time and all republicans cut all taxes all the time. Historically, this of course has never been true after Ronald Reagan's tax hikes on the middle class in the 80's, Clinton's middle class tax cuts in the 90's, and Obama's middle class tax cut of today.
"Instead, Phil Hare argues that we should be raising taxes. We’ve already seen here in Illinois what happens when you raise taxes on businesses: They take their business elsewhere. Not to the east coast or west coast; but to states that surround Illinois."
Has Bobby read the United States constitution? If not, I would like to refer him to Article 1 Section 8 which reads "all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;". In other words, any tax increase that Phil Hare as a FEDERAL representative could possibly support would be the same for every state. If federal taxes go up 3% they go up the same in Illinois as the do in Indiana or Iowa. This stops jobs from moving from state to state because of what the federal government does. That's how economics works.
So Phil Hare has some good arguments for job creation here and Bobby Schilling has a bunch of crazy rhetoric that shows he doesn't know what hes getting himself into. I'm sorry Bobby, but I'll stick with what I know. A vote for Hare today is a vote for jobs tomorrow.
Also, what historic evidence is Mr. Schilling citing when he says tax cuts always create jobs? By that logic, no taxes would create infinate jobs. I wonder what would happen if Bobby Schilling were to try to open up a pizza shop in Somolia where he would have to pay no taxes.
He would have no roads for trucks to drive on to ship him his supplies.
He have no police force to protect his business from being robbed.
He would have no banking regulations or FDIC to ensure that the money he put into the bank would be there when he needed it.
His business would be run with uneducated employees because there would be no public education system. Although, I've heard Mr. Schilling is in favor of private school vouchers, so if they went into deficit spending I guess his ideal government could mix church and state to educate some students in the art of faith healing and snake oil medicine.
He would have no court system to enforce the contracts he has made with other business owners, so I guess everything would just have to trust that every business owner in that type of environment would be as honest as him.
His customers would have less trust in his food because there would be no FDA to inspect the sausages he puts on his pizza.
And if one of his employees got sick, they would simply never come back to work because I doubt that without minimum wage laws Bobby could afford to pay his workers enough to afford healthcare and stay competetive.
Maybe, just maybe this explains how so many small businesses and good paying jobs were created after the new deal passed and the top marginal income tax rate in America was at 75%. From the 50's through the 80's America went through a period of longterm steady economic growth with taxes on the wealthy higher than they are today. Not only did the high taxes pay for all the wonderful services that businesses rely on, but they also caused large business owners to keep more of their money in their company instead of their pockets. It wasn't until Ronald Reagan declared war on the middle class by raising their taxes while giving tax breaks to wall street elitists that America began to slip back into a boom-bust cycle economy.