Engineer Abundance
China completes the project while we’re still reviewing the permit
Our nation was once defined by its capacity to build. Today, we are defined by red tape. We have traded an economy of production for an economy of permission, choosing to manage decline rather than engineer growth.
20th-century leaders created an economy of scarcity, driving up costs for housing, healthcare, and energy. We need new leaders who understand how to Engineer Abundance.
We must trigger an economic flywheel. By investing in infrastructure while also incentivizing tech giants to build power generation for their data centers, we expand the grid without raising taxes. This abundant energy combined with the technological boom makes advanced manufacturing feasible in America, restoring the middle class through production, not subsidies.
This isn't about enriching the few. It’s about rebuilding the middle class by lowering the cost of living and increasing wages through competition. I’m not calling for unfettered markets of the past. Government must lay the rules of the road and set strategic incentives to harness the efficiency of the market.
By rewarding outcomes, we replace bureaucracy with abundance.
HOUSING
We claim to want affordable housing, yet we allow development to be blocked by a loud minority. In Washington, the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) is frequently weaponized to block modest townhomes and duplexes over "traffic" or "views" rather than actual environmental concerns. It is time to embrace a YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) agenda that stops frivolous reviews from killing the housing our teachers and firefighters need. If a project meets all existing zoning and safety standards, our government must default to "yes" and get out of the way. Increasing supply will reduce the cost of housing.
ENERGY
Rapid technology advancement is straining our electrical grid. The standard political solution is to tax you to upgrade the infrastructure. We must apply the same logic to data centers that we apply to residential condos: if you build here, you must invest in the local infrastructure. We must require data centers to build on-site power generation above and beyond their own needs in exchange for expedited permitting. This allows companies to use their own capital to secure their power, while the surplus is fed back into the public grid. By leveraging private efficiency to modernize our infrastructure, we ensure a stable grid and cheaper electricity for every household while simultaneously incentivizing job growth.
MANUFACTURING
Government must incentivize the stable, high-paying jobs that come with building and producing. This creates ecosystems of support companies and skilled labor that lifts an entire region. Look right here in our area. We have become the "Silicon Valley for Space." Anchors like SpaceX and Amazon Project Kuiper (now Amazon LEO) started building satellites in Redmond spawning over 90 support companies in the region. We now have companies like Aerojet Rocketdyne building propulsion systems and Kymeta building antennas right down the street.
This isn't just a win for software engineers. It’s a middle-class boom for the workers who build and run these facilities. Competition drives up wages and restores the upward mobility of the American Dream. A service-based economy offers jobs, but a production-based economy offers careers. It’s time we return to being a nation that builds.
HEALTHCARE
We all know healthcare is expensive, but we rarely talk about why. We spend nearly twice as much per person as other developed nations, yet we have lower life expectancy and higher rates of chronic disease. Government enforces scarcity with an arbitrary limit on doctors while middle men take a cut at each step of the process.
Abundant healthcare lowers prices. This makes coverage affordable and ensures care happens early, when it is most effective. We don’t need more red tape. We need more doctors, real-time pricing, and a focus on fixing the broken plumbing of the system so that every American can actually access the care they need.
Ineffective leadership has defined a service economy dominated by scarcity, driving up costs for everyone.
We must return to being a nation that builds. Building creates careers, which drives up wages. When our families earn more, they spend more, fueling local businesses and increasing the velocity of money throughout our communities.
Combined with an efficient government, this growing tax base allows for targeted investment in infrastructure and communities in need, further strengthening the cycle.
It is human nature to respond to incentives. By aligning incentives with growth, government enables an economy that lifts all families. But we cannot build this future while ignoring the National Debt.