Brown County, TX
Republican Party

2006 STATE REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM

• Tort/Civil Justice Reform - We strongly support continuation of common sense tort reform that puts justice back into our civil justice system and discourages frivolous lawsuits. We support abolishing joint and several liabilities that forces people to pay for damages they did not cause. We oppose the abusive use of class action lawsuits. We oppose lawsuits against manufacturers and dealers whose products or property have been misused.
• Right-to-Work - An individual should have the freedom to work in the job he/she desires without being forced to join or pay dues to any organization. The Texas Right-to-Work Law, while providing this freedom, also has provided a good climate for industrial expansion, higher employment, and a stable management-labor relationship. To this end, we applaud the Texas Right-to-Work Law and encourage our legislators to call for a referendum to make this law a constitutional amendment. We encourage the adoption of a National Right-to-Work Act providing the same kind of protection from labor unions as is enjoyed by Texans under the State Right-to-Work laws.
• Small Business - We urge Texas legislators to find ways to mitigate the impact of governmental regulations on small businesses and to ensure that small businesses are adequately represented in the regulatory process.
• Workers’ Compensation - We call on our Texas legislators to resist any efforts to make Workers’ Compensation mandatory for all Texas employers.
• Minimum Wage - We believe the Minimum Wage Law should be repealed and that wages should be determined by the free market conditions prevalent in each individual market.
• Prevailing Wage Law - We urge our Texas legislators to repeal the Prevailing Wage Law. Incentives for Retention of Domestic Operations - We support, incentives and deregulation with the goal of encouraging capital investment to spur retention and creation of jobs in America.
  
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