On the Issues

Does the American Dream belong to all of us... or just a privileged few?

Issue

Jobs
Rush Holt: 
  • Helping create jobs with tax credits for small businesses.
  • Created the New Jersey Technology Center to build the jobs of the new economy.
  • Demanded that big banks that took government bail outs make more loans available.
Scott Sipprelle: 
  • Opposes raising the minimum wage.1
  • Opposes equal pay for equal work for women.2
  • Profited by investing in and promoting corporations that shipped American jobs overseas.3

Issue

Healthcare
Rush Holt: 
  • Stopped insurance companies from putting lifetime limits on what they will pay for your care.
  • Made prescriptions more affordable for seniors.
  • Increased preventive care including mammograms and cancer screenings.
  • Protecting Social Security and Medicare.
Scott Sipprelle: 
  • Allow health insurance companies to deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions.7
  • Privatize Social Security – put retirement savings into Wall Street.8

Issue

Education
Rush Holt: 
  • Making college more affordable by eliminating the unfair profits banks gouged for student loans.
  • Increasing student aid.
  • Providing special tuition aid for students who become science and math teachers.
Scott Sipprelle: 
  • Eliminate the Department of Education – shifting more costs to the state driving up property taxes.4

Issue

Tax Fairness
Rush Holt: 
  • Voted for the largest middle class tax cut in American history.
  • Helped make sure you can deduct your property taxes from your income taxes.
Scott Sipprelle: 
  • Supports the Bush tax breaks for the wealthiest 1%.5
  • Pushing a new tax code that favors corporations and those who get wealthy by collecting stock dividends rather than actually working for a paycheck.6

1. Scott Sipprelle Individual Contributor Query, $15,000 in contributions to Club for Growth from 2003 to 2008 (www.fec.gov); 2007 Club for Growth Congressional Scorecard (http://www.clubforgrowth.org/projects/?subSec=13&id=645) 2. 2008 Club for Growth Congressional Scorecard (http://www.clubforgrowth.org/projects/?subSec=13&id=642) 3. Form 13F Holdings Reports, Copper Arch Capital LLC, period ending 3/31/2001 to period ending 9/30/07; CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/popups/exporting.ameri...) 4. Scott Sipprelle Remarks, Americans for Prosperity 2010 Congressional Candidates Forum, 3/27/10 5. 2005 Club for Growth Congressional Scorecard (http://www.clubforgrowth.org/projects/?subSec=13&id=649); 2006 Club for Growth Congressional Scorecard (http://www.clubforgrowth.org/projects/?subSec=13&id=647) 6. Scott Sipprelle for U.S. Congress (http://www.supportscott2010.com/2010/02/reform-the-tax-code-to-unleash-e...) 7. Scott Sipprelle for U.S. Congress (http://www.supportscott2010.com/2010/02/promote-healthcare-solutions-tha...) 8. Club for Growth Economic Philosophies (http://www.clubforgrowth.org/philosophy/?subsec=0&id=22)

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