Excessive regulations and outrageous tax rates create a hostile environment for businesses. I will streamline necessary regulations and eliminate unnecessary ones and strive to implement key recommendations of the Tax Revision Commission. Enhance neighborhood business centers. In addition to downtown businesses, our city has many important neighborhoods and commercial corridors. I will ensure that active support and assistance are focused on these areas to promote neighborhood development.
Small businesses are the engine that drives economic growth.
I will focus resources on supporting small businesses, ensuring they have access to capital, access to local business networks, and full cooperation from government agencies. We will adopt a regional approach to employment opportunities for residents supported by quality job training and effective transportation. I will ensure that D.C. residents have access to educational programs that prepare them for the technical job opportunities that abound in the region, and I will work with the Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to assure easy access to high-employment areas. Describe any issue that you see as vital to the city's future and how it would be handled under your leadership. This is the most important election in recent history for the District of Columbia, for it will determine the form of government in the city for years to come.