On Friday John’s Jobs Tour made a stop at Newport Shipyard where we held a press conference with business leaders from the narine trades industry.  The substance of the press conference was this: when Governor Sundlun elinimated the sales tax on boats in 1993, it was a boon to Rhode Island’s boating industry.  Since then, more than 3,500 JOBS have been created, new companies have been started and this industry is the one shining light in the state’s economy.

Let’s face it – the stimulus was a bust.  We’ve lost billions in borrowed money and we’re not any better off.  We need to do what leaders on both sides of the aisle have done — from Kennedy and Sundlun to Reagan and Bush — we need to cut taxes, give more money back to the folks who earned it and let the entrepreneurs and innovators do what they do best — make superior products and earn money.