To Make Government/Business Relationships Serve the Common Good, we believe companies receiving government economic development subsidies must deliver the jobs they promise.

We also believe:

• competitive performance and accountability in state government are vital, but we oppose privatization schemes that simply reduce wages and benefits for workers in order to reward private companies with a profit at the expense of taxpayers;
• the Legislature should ban the improper use of “no-bid contracts;”
• “non-compete” contracts that place the financial interests of private toll road operators over the interests of the public should be prohibited;
• the U.S. space program, including both manned and unmanned flight and the revitalized International Space Station, serves as a catalyst for investment in scientific research that is essential to both national security and success in the global economy, and it should be supported and continued;
• regulation of banks, utilities, and insurance carriers must be improved and antitrust laws must be aggressively enforced;
• specific regulation of the banking and mortgage industry must be enacted to protect the public from the kind of excesses experienced in the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and emergency action must be taken to prevent those trapped by this crisis from losing their homes; and
• an outright ban should be enacted on abusive insurance practices and scams.