We Need To Cut Spending

No candidate who advocates for continued military spending or who advocates a significant raise in entitlement spending, such as the one proposed in the Health Care Bill, is being truthful about cutting spending and cutting taxes. For decades politicians have promised to give people entitlements to get their votes. At the same time, the same politicians promise to cut taxes to get other people’s votes. It’s not possible, and I will not do that. Here, detailed below, is the spending I will cut; and how I will address taxes afterwards.

We do not need targeted plans and complicated programs to cut taxes. Those only complicate the issues, leave loopholes to be abused, and only benefit specific segments of the population, be they the wealthy, the poor, or large corporations. If we genuinely want to end the recession, we will have to cut spending and cut taxes. We can accomplish this with simple, but broad strokes.

To cut taxes we must cut spending, and I pledge to do the following in Washington:

• I will author and file legislation to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, saving hundreds of billions of dollars yearly and saving countless American lives.
• I will write and file legislation to repeal every plank, every dollar, and every dime of the Obama Health Care Plan.
• I will write and file legislation to repeal every ill-conceived corporate bailout and return every cent to the American taxpayers.
• I will write and file legislation to repeal the federal employee pay increase put forth in the $1.1 trillion dollar spending package; a pay raise now is just shameful, and its even more so when so many Americans are out of work and struggling through this recession!
• I will write and file legislation to repeal every tax increase, every unnecessary hack job, and every costly expansion that has happened during the current administration.
• I will go after the Federal Reserve Bank and back the existing legislation to publicly audit the Federal Reserve; and if we find corruption in the halls of the Fed, I will without hesitation co-sponsor a bill to end the Fed.
• I will then begin to look at the 43% increase in spending that occurred during the George W. Bush administration, and where I find waste I will repeal and cut that spending as well.
• I will zealously seek out and garner support and co-sponsors for the legislation I will submit to end the Federal Income Tax and return that money to the people it belongs to, the American citizens.
• I will go to Washington with a big eraser in hand. Every place I find a wasted dollar I will write legislation to repeal that waste and return the taxpayers’ money. When legislation that cuts waste gets caught in committee, I will call-out the people responsible for holding up that legislation and let the taxpayers judge their actions.

For Massachusetts, I am currently drafting a bill, which I will ask to be sponsored by any State Representative or State Senator on Beacon Hill willing to end the Massachusetts Income Tax. We had a referendum last year on the ballot and many people on Beacon Hill including Senator Brown opposed that referendum. That bill would have meant an average of $3,700.00 back to the working families of Massachusetts. Think of how much $3,700.00 per year could do for the working families of Massachusetts. How many homes could be saved from foreclosure? How much more money would consumers have to put into the economy and stimulate jobs?

If they weren’t serious about cutting government last year during the deepest depths of the recession, then why should we be fooled into thinking they would do it now? Empty rhetoric and half-hearted campaign promises will not fix the problems Massachusetts and the nation faces; only swift and determined action will!

If State Senator Brown were truly serious about cutting taxes, then he would be submitting legislation to do so at the state level right now. And, one would think, he would have done so already, in the years preceding his candidacy. He is not, and has not done so, not now, not then. So it stands to reason, that he will not do so in the future either.

Attorney General Coakley, on the other hand, unabashedly supports a dramatic expansion of government entitlement programs, and therefore a dramatic increase in government spending! Her support for all those fiscally irresponsible programs would have to be eradicated if she was truly serious about cutting spending or taxes.

In short, if you’re not willing to put forth the legislation, then you are just paying lip service to the problem and making empty promises to the voters. I will do more than just talk the talk, I will walk the walk! I am working on the legislation right now, and I ask any State Representative or State Senator on Beacon Hill who is willing to submit it after the winter recess. If you can’t cut overall spending you can’t cut taxes. Talk is cheap. Actions are clear.