Issue Position: Lowering Your Tax Burden

Issue Position

Our federal tax system is broken. The top 10 percent of income earners pay more than 70 percent of the income tax collected, while about half of Americans pay no income tax at all. Over time, the number of credits, loopholes, and deductions has increased the size of the U.S. Tax Code to more than 70,000 pages. Of course the average American like you and I can't possibly keep up with that, so we are forced to pay attorneys and accountants to file our tax return each year. And the situation is only getting worse. In Washington, Congressional Democrats and the White House want to increase your tax burden and add even more pages to the tax code.

That's why I support the FairTax. The FairTax would replace the complex income tax system with a national sales tax. This would eliminate the time and expenses associated with filing your tax returns each year and would create a fairer tax system where all Americans contribute. With a consumption tax, we would eliminate the loopholes and guarantee uniformity across the board. It would also eliminate much of the need for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Currently, the IRS employees more than 100,000 people in an effort to enforce our income tax laws. If we implemented the FairTax, that need would be greatly reduced - saving the taxpayers millions of dollars each year. You can learn more about the FairTax by visiting www.fairtax.org.

The burden the federal tax system places on our families and businesses is one of the reasons why I first ran for office in Georgia, and continues to be a motivation for my service in Congress. Until we can pass the FairTax, I will continue to fight to lower your tax burden. We don't have a revenue problem here in Washington - we have a spending problem. And the 'spend now, pay later' mentality of Congressional Democrats and the White House should not be paid for with your hard earned money. That's why I do not support the president's plan to raise taxes on American job creators in order to pay for his out-of-control spending habit. If we really want to get our fiscal house in order, we need to make major changes to the way we spend money and start with our entitlement programs.

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