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This legislative session, we are staying focused on creating good jobs and improving the economy.
We won’t accomplish those goals by shutting down credit to small businesses, closing preschools or letting tobacco companies target our young people.
Unfortunately, that’s all included in the first bill taken up by the Iowa House this session.
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It would eliminate our state’s successful public-private preschool partnership, an effort that has given thousands of Iowa kids a great start in the classroom. Closing preschools would increase the financial burdens on working families struggling in today’s tough economy.
The House bill also cuts efforts to discourage youth smoking, which leads to early deaths and increased health care costs. And it shuts down low-interest loans to small businesses that help create local jobs.
The House bill could save the state about $6 million this year, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Service Agency. That’s less than one-tenth of one percent of the state budget! Does it really make sense to cut preschool, anti-smoking efforts and small business loans for these modest savings?
Instead of hurting the children who are our state’s future, I am committed to targeting help to small businesses and rural economic development. If we work together, we can do it without harming educational opportunity and increasing health care costs.
And that’s something we can all agree on.
We won’t accomplish those goals by shutting down credit to small businesses, closing preschools or letting tobacco companies target our young people.
Unfortunately, that’s all included in the first bill taken up by the Iowa House this session.
CLICK TITLE TO READ MORE
It would eliminate our state’s successful public-private preschool partnership, an effort that has given thousands of Iowa kids a great start in the classroom. Closing preschools would increase the financial burdens on working families struggling in today’s tough economy.
The House bill also cuts efforts to discourage youth smoking, which leads to early deaths and increased health care costs. And it shuts down low-interest loans to small businesses that help create local jobs.
The House bill could save the state about $6 million this year, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Service Agency. That’s less than one-tenth of one percent of the state budget! Does it really make sense to cut preschool, anti-smoking efforts and small business loans for these modest savings?
Instead of hurting the children who are our state’s future, I am committed to targeting help to small businesses and rural economic development. If we work together, we can do it without harming educational opportunity and increasing health care costs.
And that’s something we can all agree on.
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