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Issue Position: How Marco Will Finally Get Washington Spending Under Control

Issue Position

Date: Oct. 27, 2015
Issues: Health and Health Care Government Budget and Spending

Washington's addiction to irresponsible spending is the result not of necessity but of a stubborn resistance to reform. Our $18.1 trillion debt is not just a problem for government; it is a problem for the American people. It will encumber our economy today and shackle future generations tomorrow.

Our $18 trillion debt amounts to almost $150,000 per household. Our families and our children are on the hook for this. The bill might not come in the mail, but if we do nothing to change course, it will come in the form of higher taxes, cuts to our safety net, fewer jobs, and fewer opportunities to achieve the American Dream.

For those reasons, the federal government needs to be reining in its spending, now.

As a Senator, Marco has fought to restrain spending to protect taxpayers: He has, for instance, fought to block the massive taxpayer-funded bailouts in ObamaCare and voted against massive spending bills filled with wasteful spending and crony capitalist giveaways. He has been named a Taxpayer Super Hero by the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste and a Taxpayers' Friend by the National Taxpayers Union.

Some of Marco's ideas to get spending under control:

* Fight for a Balanced Budget Amendment and force Washington to live within its means without raising taxes
* Repeal ObamaCare and cut trillions in spending on the job-destroying law
* Push for line-item veto authority to cut wasteful spending
* Permanently ban pork-barrel earmarks
* Reduce the size of the federal workforce in Washington
* Stop taxpayer funding of abortions
* Prevent massive, irresponsible spending bills
* Allow states to use wasteful federal funds to pay down the national debt
* Oppose corporate welfare like the New Deal-era Export-Import Bank
* Reform budget rules to provide taxpayers with the true costs of government spending and the benefits of pro-growth policies
* Reform and save Medicare and Social Security for future generations without impacting those in or near retirement


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