Issue Position: Economic Issues

Issue Position

"Beware of Public debt, for it gives others power over your Liberty."
--Benjamin Franklin

The government has a spending problem. This problem is mainly situated in the House of Representatives who are granted by the Constitution the "power of the purse." Many in the House like to cast blame on the President who signs the bill into law, but first the house votes on it. In 2013 alone, there were 8 bills that passed the house that increased spending.

I ask, where does this money come from and who will be responsible to pay back the more than $17 trillion debt? This debt is on us, our children, and our children's children. We are enslaved to a federal debt that is out of control, and yet our representatives continue to vote to increase spending. This must end.

The only means of revenue that the government has is that which they expropriate from the people through taxes and fees. The government has two choices, then, to slow the cascade of debt: cut spending or increase revenue. Since the 1920's, very few meaningful cuts have been made. An increase in taxes then is the choice that these out of control spenders will opt for. The American People are in the place they are in currently because of government intervention and taxation. More taxes will not fix the problem of too much government.

The agency responsible for collecting these taxes, the IRS, has been wrought with abuse over the last few years. If the IRS can and will be used to promote a political agenda through stifling the voice of the people, then it has lost its meaningfulness and purpose. There are many ways to abolish this form of intimidation and enslavement to the federal government. I will find the right legislation to end this abusive agency.

The dollar has lost 97% of its value since 1913. That is over 100 years of people losing their property through devaluing of currency. We must stabilize the value of the dollar by stopping the theft caused by inflation.

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