Issue Position: On Fiscal Responsibility - Discipline

Issue Position

Issue Position: On Fiscal Responsibility - Discipline

There are a few very basic principles that define fiscal conservatism: decreasing taxation and decreasing spending. Simply put, your money is better managed and more efficiently spent when left in your hands. Conversely, governments tend to be too large and unresponsive to adapt quickly to changing conditions. This drives a need for a smaller, more efficient federal government. The momentum to grow government must be checked constantly. It is no different than a family budget, and that's exactly the perspective that I will take to Washington. The way I see it, you are sending me to Congress not to spend your money, but to keep the government from spending it and asking for more.

I am committed to accomplishing the following:

-Reduce taxes by making the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts permanent;
-Eliminate the marriage penalty;
-Repeal the "death tax";
-Simplify the tax code;
-Evaluate and overhaul waste in government spending; and
-Illuminate earmarks to public scrutiny, thereby ending the practice of spending money without full debate.

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