Your Tax Dollars at Work
Bankrupting America:
ECONOMIC SNAPSHOT
Current Deficit: $600 billion
Current National Debt: $16.80 trillion
Debt Per Household: $146,382
Debt Per Individual: $53,218
Unemployment Rate: 7.6%
Americans have already tightened their budgets. They can’t afford for Washington to take even more of their money to pay for even more wasteful spending.
We’re not in this mess because Washington taxed too little; we’re in this mess because Washington spent too much. To create a healthy economy, we need to go line by line through the budget and eliminate Washington’s wasteful spending.
Hardworking Americans shouldn't have to bailout Washington’s waste with a tax increase. It’s unfair for taxpayers to pay more so Washington can waste more.
Raising taxes simply won’t solve our economic problems. It won’t put Americans back to work. It won’t do enough to reduce our debt. And it won’t create economic opportunity for everyday Americans.
Until Washington can prove that it can spend Americans’ tax dollars efficiently, effectively, and accountably, Washington needs to get its hands out of taxpayers’ pockets.
This has been tried before. We’ve seen that countries that pursue the so-called “balanced approach” – a combination of tax increases and spending cuts—tend to fail while countries that pursue spending cuts alone, succeed.
KEY POLLING DATA
According to Gallup, 78% of adults believe members of Congress should give back 5% of their salary because of the sequester (11% believe they should not). 79% believe they should have to give back 25% of their salaries (16% say they should not).
According to the Economist, 54% of adults say the budget deficit is a very important issue to them. Also the Economist reports: 26% of adults think the economy is getting better, 33% think it is getting worse and 34% think it is stuck in neutral. Also, 77% of adults say the economy is a very important issue to them.
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Current Deficit: $600 billion
Current National Debt: $16.80 trillion
Debt Per Household: $146,382
Debt Per Individual: $53,218
Unemployment Rate: 7.6%
Americans have already tightened their budgets. They can’t afford for Washington to take even more of their money to pay for even more wasteful spending.
We’re not in this mess because Washington taxed too little; we’re in this mess because Washington spent too much. To create a healthy economy, we need to go line by line through the budget and eliminate Washington’s wasteful spending.
Hardworking Americans shouldn't have to bailout Washington’s waste with a tax increase. It’s unfair for taxpayers to pay more so Washington can waste more.
Raising taxes simply won’t solve our economic problems. It won’t put Americans back to work. It won’t do enough to reduce our debt. And it won’t create economic opportunity for everyday Americans.
Until Washington can prove that it can spend Americans’ tax dollars efficiently, effectively, and accountably, Washington needs to get its hands out of taxpayers’ pockets.
This has been tried before. We’ve seen that countries that pursue the so-called “balanced approach” – a combination of tax increases and spending cuts—tend to fail while countries that pursue spending cuts alone, succeed.
KEY POLLING DATA
According to Gallup, 78% of adults believe members of Congress should give back 5% of their salary because of the sequester (11% believe they should not). 79% believe they should have to give back 25% of their salaries (16% say they should not).
According to the Economist, 54% of adults say the budget deficit is a very important issue to them. Also the Economist reports: 26% of adults think the economy is getting better, 33% think it is getting worse and 34% think it is stuck in neutral. Also, 77% of adults say the economy is a very important issue to them.
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