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Jim Gilmore presidential campaign, 2016/Government regulations
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 Jim Gilmore |
Governor of Virginia (1998-2002) Attorney General of Virginia (1994-1997) |
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- Jim Gilmore stated that he supported free market capitalism in a June 2015 interview. He said:[2]
| “ | Demonization of people who are entrepreneurs, demonization of people who run small business, demonization of people who actually try to accumulate wealth, is wrong. That is what drives America and makes people go. And government should get out of the way of that. Now, I'm not in favor of a some big company coming in and buying influence in United States Congress and getting some special break. To the contrary, what I want to see us do is to bind down this corporate rate by eliminating all these special interest things. And by the way, that's going to project a fairer - a fairer - sense of what the modern marketplace is like. ... what we need to do is to create more opportunity for more people to work, and for better wages. What creates better wages? Do you think it's dictation by the United States government? What creates better wages is more jobs and more people having the opportunity to compete for more jobs. That's what raises it. This person is an excellent person. They got a good education. They work hard. They have good ethics. They're going to command a higher salary because people want them to go to work for them. This is what does it. More jobs competing for the workforce is what raises wages. But that's natural. That's the free market system. And we need to stand for the free market system in this country. The free market system is under assault in the United States. It needs to be stood up for by somebody, and I want to be that person.[3] | ” |
| —Jim Gilmore[2] | ||
- In the same June 2015 interview, Gilmore advocated for a policy of transparency to prevent crony capitalism and government corruption.[2]
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