Denver, CO — In case you missed it, Joe O'Dea was in Grand Junction on Saturday to participate in the Club 20 debates, a Colorado tradition that Michael Bennet refused to attend.
See highlights below:
On Energy:
"Michael Bennet did what he's done here today. He doesn't show up. He doesn't show up to fight for good Coloradans and good Colorado clean natural gas, minerals, things that could make our economy better. My second agenda item if I get to the United States Senate will be to establish American dominance in the world with using good, clean natural gas from here in Colorado. We've got to get in front of the permitting issues that are holding all these things up, they won't let them develop. You know you hear that it takes ten years, twelve years, fifteen years to get through a NEPA study to build any kind of infrastructure. We've gotta peel that back so that we can allow the development of good, clean, natural gas. We need to export on both coasts."
On Inflation Reduction Act:
"The one thing that's in there that really disturbs me is we're gonna grow another bureaucracy. They've got $80 billion going to the IRS to hire, some people are saying 87,000, some people are saying 40,000 agents, bureaucrats. Man we don't need any more government. And we don't need anybody coming here and shaking down working Americans for taxation. They're spending plenty of money. They don't need any more of ours. And the thing that I really, you know, argue with people over is they say 'well this is for the upper one percent' well you don't need 87,000 people to go after the upper one percent. That's ridiculous. They're going after us, they're going after working Americans. And working Americans, when you talk to the Joint Committee on Taxation, which is a bipartisan group, they come out and say that 72% of this tax is going to be collected from people making under $100,000 a year. That's small businesses, that's middle class, that's people that are having one heck of a time right now because of this inflation that Democrats have caused with the $1.9 trillion they passed a year and a half ago."
On Forests:
"I believe turning these areas into wilderness where we don't do any forest management is absolutely the wrong thing that we should be doing right now. We should actually change the Wilderness Act to allow for automation and so we can go in and thin some of these forests, take care of them, so that they're not a fire hazard for us and our kids in future years. And so I'll support those kinds of policies when I'm at the United States Senate."
On Economy:
"I've been in business 35, almost 40 years, now and I call it 'death by a thousand cuts.' And it's the red tape that government is putting on us at every level, whether it's local, state, or federal. And so I'll fight hard to reduce the red tape, to get rid of things we don't need to do... If we want businesses to survive and thrive, we have to get government out of our way... If we want small businesses to succeed, we've gotta support them and we gotta get government out of the way."
Learn more about Joe O’Dea’s campaign here.
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