It’s hardly a secret that California is one of the least friendly states to people who own a businesses or want to open a business. We constantly see businesses leaving the state, shutting down their doors, or failing to open when there is opportunity. When this happens we lose both starter jobs and good-paying middle class jobs. The truth is this impacts people most who are already struggling to pay the rent, or buy groceries, or to just take the next step in life. This isn’t productive, it isn’t good for our future, and we need to change how we do business here.

• Eliminate exorbitant fees and excessive regulations that are easy for huge businesses to pay or abide by but which are crippling for new businesses just getting started, or mom and pop family owned businesses just scraping by.

• Stop attempting to shut down independent contractors, people who work on their own schedule and their own time.

• Open the ‘welcome wagon’ to businesses all over the country so they can bring good-paying jobs back… let them know we’ll make it easy to open the kind of tech, manufacturing, and retail businesses that provide jobs to all kinds of people with different experience, skills, and needs.