I have been accused of allegedly giving up my free-market principles in supporting some of Donald Trump's proposed policies.

Let's bring in Donald Trump. He wants to lower taxes across the board for individuals and large and small businesses, significantly reduce burdensome regulations, and unleash America's energy resources.

In the 1980s and 1990s, radical change in economic policies fostered by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher put the brakes on government planning and ushered in a new free-market supply-side era and a two-decade boom. That model has been abandoned in the new century. This must be reversed.

As a free-market guy, I love competition. That includes political competition.

We are not giving up on repealing and replacing Obamacare.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.