Issue Position: Tax Reform

Issue Position

We must simplify our tax code. I'm in favor of reforming the current tax code and implementing a plan that is simpler, fairer and lowers tax rates.

When coupled with reduced federal spending, comprehensive tax reform could reignite job creation and make our economy healthier.

The federal government brings in more than $3 trillion in revenue from hard-working taxpayers, and yet we still produce a budget deficit in the hundreds of billions. We don't have a revenue problem -- we have a spending problem.

We can simplify the tax code for working families and small businesses. Taxpayers can best determine how to spend their own money, not bureaucrats in Washington.

Common sense tells us that tax revenue is generated by ensuring people are working -- not from continuing to raise tax rates and stifling our economy.

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