• Mike Huckabee expressed support for a Guest Worker Program similar to that supported by Bush.
• He backs mandatory citizenship verification for immigrant workers on the part of the employers and believes in fining and penalizing employers of illegal employees.
• For manufacturers who build products domestically he supports a broad new tax credit policy. This category includes auto makers, appliance makers and seven software developers.
• He believed that excessive litigation, red tape and regulations cause job losses and promised as President he would part a lot of the red tape involved.
• He pointed out that a lot of workers are underpaid while CEO salaries continue to rise therefore making the growth of a strong labor force inevitable in the United States.
• According to him since 80% of all jobs in the country come from small businesses, they need more investment, growth opportunities and support from the government.
• He was for vetoing the Employment Nondiscrimination Act that would also include sexual orientation into Federal Law. This would protect business owners from doing things that would violate their moral conscience.
• He described Wal-Mart as a case study in the genius of the American market place. He commended the fact that it paid higher wages to its labor force and was always impressed with its exemplary corporate structure.
• He commented that Consumerism is addictive but tranquility is immaterial.
• He recognized the fact that there is 33% more unemployment among the black community, a lot due to racial differences and stressed on increasing educational and employment opportunities for them to destroy the inequality that prevails.
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