Issue Position: Fiscal Responsibility - Tennessee Prioritizing Tennesseans

Issue Position

As a husband and father, I can fully understand the difficulties of living within a modest budget. Much like the responsibility I have to my family to make a financial plan and limit our spending to reach our goals, it is the duty of the State Legislature to be an excellent steward of your hard-earned money:

-- I voted to end the lodging per-diem for lawmakers in Middle Tennessee and have not accepted any per diem outside of Session, saving taxpayers thousands of dollars.

-- Holding the Legislature accountable to Tennesseans by working to create a prudent state budget and then sticking to it!

-- Co-sponsored legislation to hold businesses accountable for the promises they made when getting tax incentives and grants from the state.

-- Providing tax cuts in a manner that provides relief to everyone -- not just a select few -- in order to grow our economy. I support significant reductions in Tennessee's food tax.

It's important that state legislators always understand the difficulties people in our state face in order to reduce the burden on the individual taxpayers. I am against a state income tax, and I will work diligently to identify ways to reduce the tax burdens on all Tennesseans.

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