What the Presidential Candidates Say About Tech

NYCTechMeetUp, a nonprofit group that represents computer coders and other technology industry people in New York, asked the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates to pitch how their policies “would benefit the growth of New York start-up community and other start-up entrepreneurs.”

• Mitt Romney promised, among other things, to raise visa caps for “highly skilled foreign workers,” lower the corporate tax rate to 25 percent and weaken the power of regulatory agencies.
• President Barack Obama told the group that he had invested in broadband connectivity, signed a law making it easier for start-ups to go public, established a “start-up visa program” to allow foreigners to set up businesses in this country and created a new White House job — chief technology officer.