Issue Position: Standing up to Democrats -- and Republicans -- who Spend Recklessly, Borrow Continually and Tax Repeatedly

Issue Position

Jerry Moran has consistently fought to reduce spending, promote a Balanced Budget Amendment, and has opposed increasing our tax burden.

Jerry Moran has consistently gone against the tide in Washington and fought Congress' tax-and-spend problem. He thinks Congress is hemorrhaging money at an alarming rate and must be reminded that spending trillions of dollars -- that we do not have -- undermines economic recovery today and the future of our children and grandchildren who will have to pay these crippling debts. He is committed to opposing reckless spending and reining in big government in a fiscally responsible way to help Kansas families and businesses.

Jerry Moran knows that bad fiscal policy can come from both political parties -- which is why he has not been afraid to stand up to the leadership of either political party on spending, taxes and debt.

He was one of 17 (out of 435) members of Congress to vote against every stimulus and bailout proposed by either political party. Jerry was even one of the first Republicans to oppose the use of earmarks in spending bills.

He also opposed his own party's leadership on the 2014 Continuing Resolution Omnibus because he thought that the CROminbus was an unnecessary surrender to President Obama and the Democrats following the Republican takeover of the Senate a month earlier. He was one of only 12 Republican senators who tried to stall or defeat the $1.1 trillion bill.

Jerry is a proven tax-cutter, having voted for lower taxes more than 200 times in Congress, including voting to repeal the death tax, a harmful and unfair tax hurting Kansas' farmers and small businesspeople. Senator Moran is also the lead sponsor of the FAIR Tax reform package in the United States Senate.

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