The following is partner content from: Brent Bien
As your future Governor, I believe that the purpose of government is to protect our inalienable rights—those rights granted by our Creator that existed well before our current form of government. Government exists to ensure that citizens can enjoy their natural rights safely and peacefully, and that their private property rights are secure.
The ethical challenge of government is that it must control itself, which is essential to maintain a balance between the government’s power and the people’s liberty. To that end, government is composed of people we elect to represent us and uphold the Constitution. The blessings of American society are realized through limited government that recognizes that the people hold the ultimate authority. The tone of governance is set by the governor. A People First government should promote the general welfare—facilitating commerce, ensuring justice, and providing for the common defense. I am opposed to unlimited taxation and believe funds should be used for specific public works and debts, not for expansive spending.
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Agriculture and Small Business
Our agriculture and small businesses are part of the critical industries that built our state and will carry us into the future. I will support our producers to the greatest of my ability to ensure that Wyoming becomes far more self-reliant. We must preserve our farms and ranches and encourage generational ownership by reducing cumbersome regulations and associated taxes. Small businesses need certainty in the free market to grow and expand if they choose, but this must be accompanied by minimal government interference and a guarantee that I will never shut our state down for any reason. Economic vitality comes from citizen initiative and private enterprise rather than government planning or industrial monopolies.
Education
I want a state of thinkers, not just workers. I want our children to possess the skills to begin life upon graduation from high school, along with the drive and motivation to be successful. Critical thinking, coupled with technical skills relevant to Wyoming occupations, fiscal responsibility, and love of country, must be reinstated into public education, thereby providing our children with hope and greater opportunities for a brighter future. All parents must be proactive in providing the oversight needed to ensure our public education system is achieving the highest standards possible.
Economic Philosophy
I favor economic growth that preserves equal opportunity and ensures a level playing field through deregulation, applicable tax cuts, rejection of environmental and social governance scoring, and certainty in the free market by always keeping Wyoming open for business. Wealth should be acquired through entrepreneurship, industry, and land ownership, not monopolistic control or political influence. We must protect our great state from corporate takeover that would threaten our way of life.
The threat to our republic posed by big banks, big corporations, and wealthy oligarchs is time-proven, and I am deeply skeptical of their concentrated economic power and intent. This is exacerbated by the federal government’s heavy hand in the false narratives of COVID, climate change initiatives, wokeism, the war on agriculture, limited commerce, and the selection of our political candidates. My intent is to restore balance in the relationship between the people and their government.
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