The United States needs big changes to fix its economy, GOP candidate Carly Fiorina said, and can't settle for politicians who don't know what to do or "an entertainer who doesn't know how to fix it either."
"Why should we settle for an economy where a record number of men are out of work," the former Hewlett-Packard CEO told
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program.
"Working wages have stagnated for years and a lot of people don't know the American dream is alive and well...I understand how to get the economy going and going," Fiorina continued. "We don't have to care about big businesses. We care about small businesses. Small businesses create two-thirds of the new jobs."
She also called for drastic cuts to the nation's 73,000 page tax code, saying she wants to get the code down to just three pages.
"While all the pundits say that can't be done, the truth is there's a 20-year-old plan for a three-page tax code and why is that important?" Fiorina said. "Because a small business like I started out in or my husband Frank started out driving a tow truck for it, they can't handle 73,000 pages. Three pages levels the playing field between big and small, powerful and powerless."
Fiorina also went on the attack against Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders and his stance against big banks, saying that banks and the credit union industry have been destroyed, and community banks were lost.
"The community banks and credit system gives businesses to small families," she said. "This is the lie Bernie Sanders tells and Bernie Sanders tells as well. Progressive policies make it better and they make it worse. Progressive policies make big complicated powerful government bigger, more complicated and more powerful."
Progressive policies have failed, she continued, "and the only way to fix this is to get money, power, complexity out of Washington D.C. And push it back to the people of this nation."
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Sandy Fitzgerald has more than three decades in journalism and serves as a general assignment writer for Newsmax covering news, media, and politics.
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