Bob Young in State of Michigan Archives
On Abortion:
Life begins at conception
Bob Young believes in the sanctity of human life. He believes that life begins at conception and is 100% pro-life.
Bob has been endorsed by Michigan Right to Life his entire judicial career.
Source: 2018 Michigan Senatorial website BobYoungForMichigan.com
Oct 1, 2017
On Corporations:
Cut corporate taxes; tax those who pay zero taxes
Everyday Americans cannot understand the tax code. It needs to be simple and fair. Approximately half of Americans pay no federal tax and therefore have no stake in how the tax system affects everyone else.
Everyone must pay something. We must also lower the corporate tax rate that is one of the highest in the world and is keeping companies from creating good-paying jobs here in the United States.
Source: 2018 Michigan Senatorial website BobYoungForMichigan.com
Oct 1, 2017
On Environment:
Regulations hurt farms and small businesses
Every Michigan small business owner understands the same thing: federal regulations and faceless bureaucrats who know nothing about business are strangling them. Additionally, government over-regulation hurts
Michigan farms and Agricultural industry. We need to get the government out of our farms and out of our businesses to move the Michigan economy forward and bring our jobs and children back to Michigan.
Source: 2018 Michigan Senatorial website BobYoungForMichigan.com
Oct 1, 2017
On Government Reform:
Cut costs; make government accountable
Bob Young is NOT a politician. He is a judge who will go to Washington D.C. and lay down the law. As a rule of law Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme court, Bob reformed the judicial branch by reducing costs,
adding accountability and imposing performance measures. Out of control government needs accountability and it is time to take away Debbie Stabenow's taxpayer funded credit card and send her home!
Source: 2018 Michigan Senatorial website BobYoungForMichigan.com
Oct 1, 2017
On Gun Control:
Right to bear arms is one of our most cherished rights
Bob Young fully supports the individual right to bear arms and our constitutional 2nd amendment rights. Michigan law-abiding gun owners, hunters and sportsmen deserve a Senator they can trust to protect their
2nd Amendment right to bear arms. Debbie Stabenow has not--Bob Young will. The Constitutional right to bear arms is one of our most cherished rights that must be guarded from continued attacks by the left.
Source: 2018 Michigan Senatorial website BobYoungForMichigan.com
Oct 1, 2017
On Health Care:
ObamaCare destroys jobs
ObamaCare has been a disaster, and it is a job destroying machine that imposes huge costs on consumers, eats in to family incomes and kills American small businesses. We need to repeal ObamaCare with market driven solutions that drive down costs by
empowering Americans to make their own health care choices. Let the marketplace function by permitting competition among insurers, allowing people to have medical care savings accounts and select the kind of coverage they want.
Source: 2018 Michigan Senatorial website BobYoungForMichigan.com
Oct 1, 2017
On Corporations:
Regulatory overreach hurts small businesses
Q: On business: what do you want to change?A: "[On my tour of Michigan businesses], all of those businesses complained about regulatory overreach. The federal government in the last five years has spun out more business crushing
regulation than is imaginable. And what people don't understand is that 70% of people employed in our country isn't employed by the GM's or Ford's of our country, it's by small businesses."
Source: Mike Hewitt Show WKBZ-AM on 2018 Michigan Senate race
Jul 19, 2017
On Health Care:
ObamaCare should be repealed to increase competition
Q: What is your health care policy?A: My view is you go back to the marketplace.
For example why do we prevent competition of insurers across state lines. That's absurd. I want as much competition because we know one thing: When you have competition you have downward price pressure.
Source: Michigan's Big Show on 2018 Michigan Senate race
Jul 19, 2017
On Immigration:
Penalize the insanity of sanctuary cities
Q: What's your immigration policy?A: I think a nation has the absolute right to know who's in the country and whether their lawfully or not. That's just a given. I don't really understand a contrary view that the nation does not have the right to
enforce its integrity by identifying excluding if they choose, people that come into the country.
Q: What's your opinion on sanctuary cities?
A: There's a bill in the house now to penalize cities in Michigan who take that position and
I think that's the absolute right response to that insanity.
A: What about a pathway to citizenship?
Q: My view is that any solution now to immigration must exclude the possibility of rewarding
those who came into the country illegally with a pathway to citizenship. Whatever we do with that population we cannot by virtue of violating our laws allow them to become citizens.
Source: Michigan's Big Show on 2018 Michigan Senate race
Jul 19, 2017
On Immigration:
We have the right to kick out people we don't want here
Q: What's your opinion on immigration?A: We have the right to know who's in our country, I mean I can't even understand the contrary argument. We have a right to know who's in our country,
we have a right to kick people out that we don't want here. I absolutely agree with the president that we have to have a sane border policy.
Source: Mike Hewitt Show WKBZ-AM on 2018 Michigan Senate race
Jul 19, 2017
On Tax Reform:
Taxes need to be made simpler and flatter
Q: On taxes, what do you want to change?A: We need to do something about taxes. I just did a tour of northern Michigan businesses. I was talking to a dairy farmer up there & I said, "I went to Harvard law school, I've been on the supreme court for
18 years and I don't think I can do my taxes I have a professional do it." And he said "My tax return last year was 94 pages." This is a dairy farmer. We need a flat tax, we need something that you don't have to be a tax attorney to do, and it's fair."
Source: Mike Hewitt Show WKBZ-AM on 2018 Michigan Senate race
Jul 19, 2017
On Welfare & Poverty:
We can't continue with an entitlement mentality
Q: What do you want to change?
A: The entitlement mentality is something I'm going to try and arrest when I get to Washington. The democrats like Debbie Stabenow are bribing our citizens by using your taxpayer dollars to cause you to accept handouts.
Source: Michigan's Big Show on 2018 Michigan Senate race
Jul 19, 2017
On Corporations:
Regulation hurts liberty AND hurts communities
"Liberals like Debbie Stabenow have done everything imaginable to make us weak and the people dependent on government," said Young, who graduated from Harvard and Harvard Law. "I know, I went to school with the people that trained Obama.
You only have to look at Detroit and Flint to see what 50 years of liberal policy has done to those once proud, self-reliant communities."
"Our founders created a limited federal government because they understood that unchecked government deprived the people of their liberty," Young said. "Ordinary people understand that our federal government is bloated and out of control.
It broke our healthcare system. It lets our veterans die and it spends our money recklessly and attempts to regulate our every, acting decision. Debbie is the chief offender of this and its chief cheerleader."
Source: Midland Daily News on 2018 Michigan Senate race
Jun 19, 2017
On Corporations:
I believe in limited government (but not no-government)
"I'm not a no-government person, but I'm a limited government person. I want a federal government that operates within its Constitutional rights and we need leaders like
(Rep. John Moolenaar) that are committed to our Constitution and not only recognize that these are government failures, but are willing to fight for change," said Young, who was the longest serving chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.
Source: Midland Daily News on 2018 Michigan Senate race
Jun 19, 2017
On Education:
Parents should decide to which school they send their kids
Desiring an education of children "for the realities of this century," Young would allow parents, no matter their economic level, the opportunity to send their children to the school they think best. "People like
Debbie Stabenow support public school monopolies and many urban areas have turned schools, not only into bankrupt educational enterprises, but crime-ridden killing zones," Young said.
Source: Midland Daily News on 2018 Michigan Senate race
Jun 19, 2017
On Health Care:
The federal government broke our health care system
"Our founders created a limited federal government because they understood that unchecked government deprived the people of their liberty," Young said. "Ordinary people understand that our federal government is bloated
and out of control. It broke our health care system. It lets our veterans die and it spends our money recklessly and attempts to regulate our every, acting decision. Debbie is the chief offender of this and its chief cheerleader."
Source: Midland Daily News on 2018 Michigan Senate race
Jun 19, 2017
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