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Paul Gosar — Candidate U.S. Congress – Arizona CD1 – Republican

SEDONA AZ— “I’m running to make a difference,” said Paul Gosar, candidate for the U.S. Congressional AZ-CD1 seat. “We need solutions based on common sense.  A lot of our problems have been built over time and we need to take them one step at a time in order to understand what is the main problem in America.”

Candidate Gosar believes that our problems can be summarized as a lack of personal accountability and responsibility because freedom comes at a cost and citizens have to be involved. On April 15, only 51% of the people paid income taxes and 49% did not pay any taxes or received subsidies.

Gosar wants to put people back to work. He would cut the federal budget and balance it, cut taxes and then cut regulations. He would search for funds to create incentives that get people hiring again and reduce capital gains taxes to get people investing in America for Americans. “Capital gains and tax cuts would get the entrepreneurial spirit going,” says Gosar.

“We need free market enterprise. We can’t weight things, we have to have the free market place work itself out. Competition is the best remedy and that has been shown over and over again. We are a desirable marketplace and we have to get people creating their own solutions.”

Continuing Gosar says, ‘But we can’t subsidize foreign government and then have them compete here because that is not a level-playing field. The field needs to be level for the American worker and equal across the board.”

In terms of natural resource use, Paul Gosar believes it is ridiculous to believe that conservatives are not good stewards of the land. He believes that to allow the resources to flourish, resources need to benefit the people in Congressional District One while utilizing common sense. Agriculture and mining are essential to the CD1 district and need to be protected and, as Gosar indicates, Arizona CD1 is a net importer of food and that isn’t acceptable.

Gosar supports SB1070 because he is tired of rewarding bad behavior such as the banks, the Wall Street bail-out and present immigration issues. His own grandparents were immigrants and they came to America “the right way” because in Gosar’s opinion “there is a right way and a wrong way and we can’t keep rewarding bad behavior.”  He says that the government does not have the discretion of honoring some laws and not others and if Congress does not like the laws “then get rid of them but it can’t pick and choose.”

Gosar believes further that SB1070 is an important line in the sand. It challenges the federal government on unfunded mandates as well as the requirement that the federal government abide by and enforce its laws.

He is troubled by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Gosar believes the United States has too often abandoned countries trying to create freedom and democracy but acknowledges that the region has always been troubled.

In Congress, Gosar would ask tough questions of the military and demand answers because as he points out “a regular citizen can’t do that but as a Congressman you can.”  He doesn’t know what those answers will be but he knows it is important, believing that the lives of our youth are on the line and cannot be put in harms way needlessly.

As a dentist, Gosar said, “I am against this healthcare. We need some reform but this is ridiculous. We need to still allow folks to get paid and have skin in the game and the federal government is a poor substitute for that. I want to see the states be able to take the insurance companies on and see the insurance companies compete against each other. We need to have people take care of their health and we have to hold public health accountable. But the way the mandates work and the paperwork, it is inappropriate for the delivery of healthcare. It is the same for patients from Indian Healthcare to WICK to ACCESS and Medicaid. We can have tort reform and it can be compassionate, be in stages and do something, see how it works, first. There are other models that can work and we are having this one crammed down our throat and I am tired of that.”

“Generally,” said CD1 candidate Gosar, “There is a lack of common sense, how laws are applied to Main Street America. Most people have lost touch with the idea that government is for the people and by the people. It is not at the people. We need constant communication and dialogue and understand what it is that is driving these laws and this legislation. We need to actively involve the people in this give and take. There are real differences regionally and in older and younger, we have lost track of that.”

For more information go to, http://www.gosarforcongress.com/

Article by Joni Dahlstrom, sedonaeye.com Staff Writer  JoniD@eSedona.net  Sedona Times Publishing Election Central   c2010 

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