Detroit has spent too many years under the mismanagement of Democrats who kept on spending and kept on increasing the size of the government—until the city went bankrupt. Detroit has learned the hard way that an economic comeback won’t come from higher taxes, more regulation or more government control.

It’s time to give the Republican ideas of free enterprise a try in the Motor City. It’s time we offer real solutions that leave more money in the hands of those who earned it. It’s time for the GOP to share our message of less government and more individual freedom.

The national economy over the past few years has been hard on millions of people across the country, especially in many urban areas. The snail’s pace of economic growth might have been enough for the stock market to recover, but it hasn’t been enough for many families and communities to recover—like Detroit, where the unemployment rate is 16.2 percent.

We need to go to these communities and speak with these families.