Matt Griffin
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Um, so every time we sell a, bring in a Shema for 10 bucks, I pay a buck 70, uh, to the government, um, the U S government to the U S government for really not providing any value to it.
They actually kind of make it more complicated on us.
So you would get rid of that immediately.
I would get rid of any, any trade tariffs or barriers to, to any country we're in conflict with.
And people say, well, you can't, you can't do this.
It doesn't work.
Well, if
I believe our economy is the best weapon that we have.
And if it wasn't true, why do we wage crippling, you know, embargoes on countries like Iran or Venezuela, right?
Our, our economy has the, the ability to hurt or to help.
And I think we should use it to help.
Um,
Yeah, I would really fund education.
That's what I would do first is I would fund education in businesses.
Being able to provide microloans to small business owners.
And the reason why I say this is because I witnessed it firsthand as a civilian.
So I left the military in 2006 and I started going back to Afghanistan and other places.
And I'd see on a street corner, a guy selling cell phone SIM cards.
And the next time I'd go back and he'd have a bigger stand.
And then I'd go back and they need to have