Fair Tax

The simple truth is that today’s tax code is not fair and it is not responsible.  We cannot indefinitely keep spending more than we collect in taxes.  This country faces tremendously serious choices: Do we want to sacrifice Social Security, Medicare and other cherished government programs so that corporations and the super-rich can shirk their civic duty of paying taxes?  Do we want to keep the brunt of the tax burden on working families so that corporations and the super-rich can enjoy tax breaks and tax loopholes?  Do we want to leave to future generations a national debt so large that they inherit a crippled economy and a government unable to provide any services?  I SAY NO.   

If elected, I would sponsor a comprehensive tax reform bill that would make the super-rich and giant corporations pay their fair share of taxes so that working families are not over-taxed.  To prevent leaving our children and grandchildren with trillions of dollars of our debt, we must bring in enough revenue to balance the budget and reduce the national debt.

As long as the tax code is slanted toward the interests of the super-rich and corporations, the interests of ordinary Americans suffer.  It is high time for fairness and responsibility to be restored to the tax code.    

Specifically, I support:

• Making permanent the expanded Child Tax Credit, the elimination of the Marriage Penalty, and new tax bracket that allows people to save $350 dollars on their first level of income.
• Barring giant corporations from pretending to relocate overseas to avoid the taxes they are supposed to pay here in America . 
• Ending corporate welfare and closing corporate tax loopholes that leave even more of the country’s tax burden on working families.
• Making speculators pay the same rate on unearned income as people pay on earned income they get by going to work and getting a paycheck.
• Simplifying the tax code so that a family doesn’t need to hire a professional to help them file their taxes.
• Enforcing the tax law so that big tax cheats pay what they are supposed to pay.
• Repealing recently passed, unneeded tax breaks for those who earn more than $200,000 a year.

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