Former Virginia governor and current U.S. Senate candidate George Allen touted job creation and lowering taxes at a campaign stop at Staples Barber Shop in Charlottesville Thursday.
“I’m at Staples to get my monthly shearing,” Allen said. “I’ve been coming here for years; I’ve heard a lot of wisdom at Staples.”
Allen said he had spent the day touring small businesses from Roanoke to Charlottesville to talk to business owners about job creation.
“People care about jobs,” Allen said. “There’s a lot of people who do have a job, but it’s not necessarily consistent to their talents or their skills.”
Allen criticized President Barack Obama and his own senatorial opponent, Democratic former Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, for their proposals on job creation.
“It looks to me like what [the president] and my opponent Tim Kaine are proposing is just more of the same,” Allen said. “More spending, higher taxes and more debt … If more government spending and higher taxes and more debt were the solution, we wouldn’t have this 9 percent unemployment rate.”
Allen said the path to job creation lay with lower taxes and “getting our country more competitive.”
“I’m focused on … investment in jobs with lower taxes for small businesses, medium and large-sized businesses,” he said. “Reducing the second-worst taxes in the world from 35 percent to 20 percent, would create 500,000 new jobs a year.”
Allen also criticized President Obama’s health care plan, claiming the measure put an unfair burden on small businesses.
“I’d like to be the deciding vote to repeal and replace the health care monstrosity that is adding well over $500 billion dollars to the debt, and putting a burden on small businesses,” he said.
Allen criticized Kaine for his spending time with Obama in Chicago, rather than campaigning in Virginia.
“While I’m here in Charlottesville, at Staples Barber Shop, he’s up in Chicago with President Obama’s big money bundlers, in Chicago, and I’d rather be here at Staples Barber Shop … and in touch with the folks here.”
The former governor, who got both his undergraduate and law degree from the University of Virginia, said he hoped to reach across the aisle if elected, but reiterated that there was one way forward.
“The key to getting things done is to have a common sense conservative Republican majority,” he said.
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