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issues

2008

Debt and Taxes

Working Americans like lower taxes.So do I. Lower taxes benet all o us, cre-ating jobs and allowing us to make moredecisions or ourselves about our lives.Whether a tax cut reduces a single

mother’s payroll taxes by $40 amonth or allows a business owner tosave thousands in capital gains taxesand hire more employees, that taxcut is a good thing. Lower taxes allowmore spending, saving, and invest-ing which helps the economy — thatmeans all o us.

Real conservatives have always sup-ported low taxes and low spending.But today, too many politicians andlobbyists are spending America intoruin. We are nine trillion dollars in debtas a nation. Our mounting governmentdebt endangers the nancial uture o our children and grandchildren. I wedon’t cut spending now, higher taxesand economic disaster will be in their u-ture — and yours.

In addition, the Federal Reserve,our central bank, osters runawaydebt by increasing the money supply

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making each dollar in your pocketworth less. Te Fed is a private bankrun by unelected ocials who are notrequired to be open or accountable to“we the people.”Worse, our economy and our very in-dependence as a nation is increasinglyin the hands o oreign governmentssuch as China and Saudi Arabia, be-cause their central banks also nanceour runaway spending.We cannot continue to allow privatebanks, wasteul agencies, lobbyists,corporations on welare, and govern-ments collecting oreign aid to dictatethe size o our ballooning budget. Weneed a new method to prioritize ourspending. It’s called the Constitutiono the United States.

American Independence and Sovereignty

So called ree trade deals and worldgovernmental organizations like theInternational Criminal Court (ICC),NAFA, GA, WO, and CAFA are athreat to our independence as a nation.Tey transer power rom our govern-ment to unelected oreign elites.Te ICC wants to try our soldiersas war criminals. Both the WO andCAFA could orce Americans to geta doctor’s prescription to take herbsand vitamins. Alternative treatmentscould be banned. Te WO has orcedCongress to change our laws, yet westill ace trade wars. oday, France isthreatening to have U.S. goods taxedthroughout Europe. I anything, theWO makes trade relations worse bygiving oreign competitors a new wayto attack U.S. jobs. NAFA’s superhigh-way is just one part o a plan to erasethe borders between the U.S. and Mex-ico, called the North American Union.Tis spawn o powerul special inter-ests, would create a single nation outo Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, with anew unelected bureaucracy and moneysystem. Forget about controlling immi-gration under this scheme.

And a ree America, with limited, con-stitutional government, would be goneorever.Let’s not orget th

e UN. It wants toimpose a direct tax on us. I successullyought this move in Congress last year,but i we are going to stop ongoing at-tempts o this world government bodyto tax us, we will need leadership romthe White House.We must withdraw rom any organi-zations and trade deals that inringeupon the reedom and independence o the United States o America.

War and Foreign Policy

Te war in Iraq was sold to uswith false information. Te area ismore dangerous now than when weentered it. We destroyed a regimehated by our direct enemies, the ji-hadists, and created thousands of new recruits for them. Tis war hascost more than 3,000 American lives,thousands of seriously wounded,and hundreds of billions of dollars.We must have new leadership in theWhite House to ensure this neverhappens again.

Both Jeferson and Washingtonwarned us about entangling ourselvesin the afairs o other nations. oday,we have troops in 130 countries. Weare spread so thin that we have too ewtroops deending America. And now,there are new calls or a drat o ouryoung men and women.

We can continue to und and ght no-win police actions around the globe, orwe can reocus on securing America andbring the troops home. No war shouldever be ought without a declaration o war voted upon by the Congress, as re-quired by the Constitution. Under no

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