Fiorina: We Must Reduce the Power, Scope and Complexity of Gov’t

FIORINA: "First, we have to remember what the engine of economic growth is in this nation. You know what it is? Small businesses, family-owned businesses, community based businesses. I started out in a nine-person real estate firm typing and filing. It’s how most people start. Two-thirds of the new jobs are created by small businesses. Half of the Americans are employed by small businesses. We’re crushing them. We’re now destroying more than we’re creating. That’s why we have to roll back this regulatory burden and take a 75,000-page tax code and make it three pages, because guess what? When you have a big costly complicated government, only the big, the powerful, wealthy and well connected can deal with it. It’s called crony capitalism. It’s why we must reduce the size of government. So, we have to get small businesses up and growing again. To do so, we must reduce the power, the scope, the complexity of government."