Jay Chen’s Plan to Get Results from Washington
I Work with all parties to solve problems and get the results we need from Washington to restore America back to its place in the world. Adhere to no ideology other than a commitment to move America forward and establish a more prosperous and exceptional country for our next generation.
I Create jobs now by giving tax credits to companies that bring jobs back to America and remove tax incentives for shipping jobs overseas. Support our main drivers of economic growth and employment, small businesses, by providing tax credits to encourage the hiring of more workers. Give preference to American products and manufacturing in government contracts.
I Prepare our children to compete in the global economy by incorporating computer science and foreign language classes into the standard curriculum. We need to upgrade our education system so that it meets the demands of an era defined by technology and globalization, and that means treating computer programming as reverentially as arithmetic, and expecting that all of our students can converse in a critical foreign language.
I Make higher education more accessible by reinvesting in our universities and by allowing students to reduce educational debt through service-oriented careers after graduation. U.S. universities are becoming too expensive for our own students to attend and more admissions are being won by foreign students paying higher tuition. We must bring down the cost of higher education for our homegrown talent and also make it easier for foreign students who have been educated in our system to become contributing Americans, rather than foreign competitors.
I Honor the courage and sacrifice of our veterans by providing them the job opportunities and health care they deserve when they return home, and by reallocating defense spending from costly, ineffective, and outdated weapons programs back to training and developing our service members. The research and development arm of our military is responsible for some of the most indispensable technologies known today, from the internet to GPS, and we must ensure that it remains fully funded.
