Issue Position: Lower Taxes and Stop the Spending
Issue Position
Issue Position: Lower Taxes and Stop the Spending
I firmly believe the best judge of how to spend one's hard earned money is the person who earned it. Besides signing the Americans for Tax Reform's "No Tax Pledge," as an elected official, I have consistently voted against tax increases at all levels of government.
As a state legislator, I sponsored legislation to lower the State's sales tax and eliminate our newly increased 'Death Tax'. My pro-business, pro-growth stance has consistently earned high marks and endorsements from the business community. I believe that rather than sending money to Washington and complaining that we do not get "our fair share" (and we certainly don't), it would be in our best interest not to send it down there in the first place. I know that as tax dollars travel further from home the less you get back, and the less accountable and responsible the government becomes with those tax dollars.
In Washington D.C., I will continue to fight for the taxpayer here at home. I will fight against the expansion of the Death Tax when it is due to expire at the end of 2009. I will fight to repeal the Alternative Minimum Tax, also known as the AMT. The AMT is particularly harmful to the New Jersey taxpayer. Like Ronald Reagan, "I believe that we don't have a tax problem, we have a spending problem" and that we can never tax and spend ourselves into prosperity. In fact, increasing taxes and spending more will only guarantee the opposite.
Immigration - The "NOW" Plan
No other issue in American politics seems to frustrate and increase cynicism among our people as does our government's ineptness or unwillingness to control and secure our borders.
Any discussions about Homeland Security lack credibility with the American public, if our government cannot do something as fundamental as securing and protecting our borders. There are many issues that we can debate when it comes to the issue of immigration, but there are some which American are vastly in agreement:
1. Secure our borders using any means available. NOW.
2. Construct the fence: NOW!
3. Deport illegal aliens who have committed crimes against our citizenry. NOW!
4. Enforce existing employment laws. NOW!
The issue of what to do with the 12 million illegal aliens must be framed by future policies must not be base on Amnesty for those who broke our laws by entering our country illegally.
American is a nation of immigrants and will continue to be so, however those who wish to be part "our huddled masses yearning to be free", must wait their turn and enter through the front door not some dusty back door in the desert of the southwest.
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