Issue Position: Taxes & Economic Security

Issue Position

As State Treasurer, Cynthia Lummis saved every Wyoming worker $1,000 per year in taxes. She did so by increasing investment income from Wyoming's savings accounts. She converted Wyoming's investment portfolio of $3.5 billion to a fully diversified portfolio of equities, real estate and fixed income investments, public and private, domestic and international, totaling $8.5 billion.

Financial security is the backbone of America's economy. We must, as a nation, learn to save and Washington must learn to practice fiscal discipline. The government, like a corporation, has a responsibility to the American people to properly steward tax dollars.

* Cynthia Lummis will work hard to keep taxes low because she knows that Wyoming's citizens deserve to keep their money and that hard-earned dollars are best spent by the people who worked for them not by the government.

* Cynthia pledges to oppose all federal tax increase proposals.

* Cynthia will impose discipline on federal government spending

* Using Wyoming as the example, Cynthia will lead 21st century America into the habit of saving, starting with Washington.

* Cynthia will work to ensure that Social Security and Medicare do not bankrupt our children.

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