My plan is to foster an economy where Americans are empowered to build, to own, and to support flourishing families and communities. My economic agenda will increase wages and productivity, and create jobs, while easing America’s class divisions and unleashing a new era of growth, prosperity, and civic pride. 

Right now, we’re settling into persistently high prices with a very sluggish economy. Our growth rate in the past decade has been anemic. It’s time to get growing again.  

At the end of the day, how we approach the economy is less about dollars and cents than it is about the type of society that we seek. We must be a society in which Americans who work hard are able to succeed, to afford to buy a home and a car, and to raise a family. 

I am calling for a Declaration of Economic Independence. As our forefathers struggled and won independence from the British crown, we are declaring independence from ideological and social engineering bureaucrats; independence from the Chinese Communist Party, progressive corporations looking out for every interest except the American people, and the destructive policies from the ruling elite.