Steve Pearce recently signed the American Family Business Institute “No Death Tax” pledge to support the permanent repeal of the “death tax”. 

Pearce has long supported the efforts to repeal this tax permanently and fought for the repeal while in Congress.  The death tax is especially harmful to small businesses and family farms by making it near impossible financially to hand down their business from generation to generation. This tax unfairly penalizes business and farm owners and puts people out of work in the process.

The current Congressman, Harry Teague voted along with his party leader Nancy Pelosi to pass legislation to set the death tax at a rate up to 45% for any holdings remaining at the time of a person's passing.

These tax and spend policies are going to hurt American workers and result in job loss at a time we cannot afford more loss.

 


 




BY Steve Pearce, ON MARCH 09, 2010

The nation is dying for jobs with unemployment just under 10%.  We are spending billions on foreign energy.  New Mexico is starving for tax revenues…and the Democrats in Congress are going to make all of them worse.  The Administration has proposed to close the Otero Mesa permanently to all drilling for oil and gas.  Make your voice heard.  Call your representatives to oppose the move.

 


Obama Eyes Stopping US Drilling
Copyright © 2010 Energy Intelligence Group, Inc. 
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

 

The Obama administration is taking steps to close off several parts of the Intermountain West to industrial activity, including four areas believed to hold significant oil and natural gas deposits.




Jobs
BY Steve Pearce, ON MARCH 08, 2010

I had the opportunity last weekend to participate in the annual Chile Challenge hosted by the Las Cruces Four Wheel Drive Club.  This is an ultimate off road adventure.  They drive 4WD vehicles on trails throughout the mountains. There are trails for drivers with different expertise levels.  They even suggest the drivers and passengers on the expert trails wear full body armor.  This “challenge” is definitely for the thrill seekers in Southern New Mexico.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This activity in Las Cruces is in danger of ending because of legislation that continues to make more of our wilderness land off limits to people and activities. 




Education
BY Steve Pearce, ON MARCH 03, 2010

We are told the unemployment rate is 9.7% for the month of February.  It may be considerably higher, but that is fodder for another conversation.  

All employment numbers are aggregates.  The 9.7 (or whatever number you feel comfortable) is actually an average of lots of different numbers.  Those different subsets are where the real information is in the unemployment report.

For example, people without a high school diploma have an unemployment rate of 15.2%.  College graduates have an unemployment rate of 4.9%.  That is a stark reality. 

The better our education system, the better we compete in the world.  The better we compete, the more jobs we have.  When we compete in worse fashion, we have fewer jobs.

These are the basics of economic policy.  Work hard, educate more, push productivity to higher levels and our national standard of living improves.  Fail at these and other nations grab our jobs.




Meanwhile the American economy is damaged, unemployment is at 10%and the vast majority of Americans are worried about the future. CNN released a poll on the day of the Healthcare Summit saying 75% on Americans do not want Congress to pass the Healthcare Bill.

The deficit is skyrocketing; the Healthcare Bill will make it and our economy worse.

The Healthcare Bill should be shelved; the Congress should start removing the roadblocks to job creation and implement policies that foster an environment which will cause companies to start to resume hiring.We need jobs.

We should do more than freeze spending.  It would be frozen at over a trillion dollar deficit each year.  We should roll spending back, cutting the nonessential government services.

We should be creating policies which would attract manufacturers to come back to this country.




BY Editor, ON MARCH 02, 2010

Steve Pearce needs freedom fighters right now!

Are you willing to fight to protect this great country and our freedoms?  Are you angry at Pelosi and Congressional spending? Then join our team.  We need your help.

As you know, the economy is terrible.  We are really struggling to match the fundraising of our opponent who is getting hundreds of thousands of dollars from unions and liberal organizations.




Family
BY Steve Pearce, ON MARCH 01, 2010

How My Mother Made A Statement About The Power Of Family Ties

You can like former President Bush or not like him.  I liked him.  I had friends who did not.  I did not always agree with him and sometimes we had sharp differences on policy, but he was always respectful and considerate even when he found my votes unhelpful to what he was trying to accomplish.

But this is not about Mr. Bush, or the Presidency, policy or any of the Washington hoopla.  This is about my Mom.  If any of you have a mother, I think you will get the drift pretty quickly.  You may have a story of your own about your mother to share.  Send it to the campaign at steve@peopleforpearce.com and we will post a couple of them.




BY Editor, ON FEBRUARY 25, 2010

For Immediate Release

Time now to re-focus on putting Americans back to work

HOBBS, NM - Former Congressman Steve Pearce today issued the following statement following President Obama's Health Care Summit.

"There was a lot of hype leading up to the health care summit which was billed as an opportunity to 'seek common ground.'  However, the Congressional Democrats used the summit for a photo-op and an attempt to persuade Republicans to support the bill that has already been rejected by Congress and the American people.

"We saw a lot of anecdotal stories from the Democrats, but they seemed unprepared to discuss the underlying issues of the bill.  President Obama accused Republican leaders of using props that prevented them having a discussion when they brought out a copy of the health care bill.  It is hardly a political gimmick to have a copy of a bill present, when leaders have come together to discuss the legislation.

"I care about New Mexico families and the health care they receive, and believe that changes must be made to the current health care system, but this legislation is not going to impact our state and country in a positive way.




Taxes & Spending
BY Steve Pearce, ON FEBRUARY 24, 2010

A National Park, the Park Service Is Not Sure It Wants...

The Washington Post wrote recently "Hours before President Obama urged members of Congress to show spending restraint Wednesday, the House voted to authorize spending as much as $50 million to create a national historic site in the U.S. Virgin Islands on beachfront land the National Park Service isn't yet sure it wants.

Republicans had blocked the bill last week, saying it was a bad use of money for a government bleeding cash, but Democrats pushed it through this week, saying they didn't want to lose the chance to acquire the land."

The nation is broke.  We are borrowing money from China to pay for daily operating expenses of the government and the Congress votes to spend $50 million on a park…that the Park Service has not indicated it wants. 




BY Editor, ON FEBRUARY 23, 2010

For Immediate Release

Republicans edge Democrats by 10% in generic ballot

HOBBS, NM - Former Congressman Steve Pearce’s campaign today released an internal polling memo that shows Pearce with a lead over Congressman Harry Teague.

A recent poll conducted by the Tarrance Group shows that Pearce leads Teague 48% to 44%. The lead widens to 51% to 42% among the 88% of the electorate who knows both candidates.

The poll also showed that the political environment greatly favors Republicans in the 2nd Congressional District despite Democrats having a 12% registration advantage. The generic Congressional ballot has the Republican candidate ahead 47% to 37%.

The findings further showed Teague's vulnerability with only 38% saying Teague deserves re-election and 47% say it's time for a new person.