Sarah Steelman on Free Trade

Free trade is good policy for Americans

Advocate for making sure we keep Missouri jobs here

A: Well, that's an economic development question. Small business is really the engine that drives the state economy and the American economy. I think the state can come in and do some tax credits for venture capital that smaller businesses could access to get started. This is like a gap financing. If we can get businesses over the hump then I think we'll find that our economy is growing more, we'll be creating more jobs here instead of shipping them abroad. A lot of the policies that dictate what's happening with that are at your federal level. But as governor I would certainly advocate for keeping Missouri jobs here any way we can. We have [a foreign company] about to buy Anheuser-Busch; they might shut it down and take 'em to Europe. I hope they're not successful in their buyout, but as governor I have to advocate for constantly making sure we keep Missouri jobs here.