Ron Paul, a 10-term Republican Congressman from Texas 14th District, is currently the ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee's Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology. He has been named "Taxpayers' Best Friend" for 10 consecutive years by the National Taxpayers' Union. Ron Paul is also the author of several books on monetary policy and economics.

1. Tax Reform

• Eliminate Taxes on Dividends and Savings. The basis of capitalism is savings, and Americans who do so should be rewarded.
  • Pass HJ Res. 23 to encourage savings over consumption.
• Repeal the Death Tax. Attacking small businesses and breaking up family farms smothers growth and kills jobs.
  • Pass H.R. 2734 to make the Bush tax cuts permanent.
• Cut Taxes for Working Seniors. Grandmothers and grandfathers working to make ends meet should keep all the fruits of their labor.
  • Pass H.R. 191 to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the inclusion in gross income of Social Security benefits.
• Eliminate Taxes on Social Security Benefits. That money belongs to seniors, not the government. They paid into the system for a lifetime, and they should be free to spend every penny as they see fit.
  • Pass H.R. 192 to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 1993 increase in taxes on Social Security benefits.
• Accelerate Depreciation on Investment. We need to help companies grow and create jobs.
  • Pass H.R. 4995 to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce corporate marginal income tax rates.
• Eliminate Taxes on Capital Gains. Investment should be embraced and rewarded.
  • Pass H.J. Res 23 (The “Liberty Amendment”), proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to abolishing personal income, estate, and gift taxes and prohibiting the United States Government from engaging in business in competition with its citizens.
• Eliminate Taxes on Tips.The single parents and working students who earn their income chiefly through tips deserve to keep all of their money. This tax on "estimated income" is unfair and should be ended.
  • Pass H.R. 3664 to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that tips shall not be subject to income or employment taxes.
• Support the Mortgage Cancellation Relief Act. Working families who lost their homes should not be punished a second time with a big IRS bill.
  • Pass H.R. 1876 to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from the gross income of individual taxpayers discharges of indebtedness attributable to certain forgiven residential mortgage obligations.

2. Spending Reform

• Reduce Overseas Military Commitments. Our bases and troops should be on our soil.
  • It's time to stop subsidizing our trading partners in Europe, Japan and South Korea.
• Freeze Non-Defense, Non-Entitlement Spending at Current Levels
  • I vote against all bloated, pork laden spending bills and will veto them as president.
    

3. Monetary Policy Reform

• Televise Federal Open Market Committee Meetings. An institution as powerful as the Federal Reserve deserves full public scrutiny.
• Expand Transparency and Accountability at the Federal Reserve
  • Pass H.R. 2754 to require the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to continue to make available to the public on a weekly basis information on the measure of the M3 monetary aggregate and its components.

• Return Value to Our Money. Legalize gold and silver as a competing currency.
  • Level the long-term boom and bust business cycle by passing H.R. 4683, which would repeal provisions of the federal criminal code relating to issuing coins of gold, silver, or other metal for use as current money and making or possessing likenesses of such coins.

4. Regulatory Reform

• Repeal Sarbanes/Oxley. It has seriously wounded our capital markets and helped make the UK a financial center at our expense.
  • Ending these misguided regulations would bring jobs flooding back to the United States
    
  • Pass H.R. 1049 to reform Sarbanes-Oxley and reduce the burden it places on small businesses.

     

• Repeal or Remove Costly and Unnecessary Federal Regulations. Neighbors know best how to help their neighbors.
  • We need to make it easier for community banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions to better serve their communities and to help people in these communities get access to credit and capital.
  • Pass H.R. 1869 to enhance the ability of community banks to foster economic growth and serve their communities, boost small businesses, increase individual savings, and for other purposes.

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It appears that We the People in our Great Republic have been injured by those in Washington that were elected to represent us men, women and children and not Major Corporations and Banks. The elected chose to not follow the rule of law, the Constitution of America, the very document that defines and limits the power of Government.

The stock market is taking a beating and will continue to do so. Ron Paul has been warning us of this for a very long time and even introduced a bill back in 2002 to avoid this problem. Please see what Dr. Ron Paul’s economic adviser Peter Schiff had to say about the situation with the stock market in 2006 google 8/28/2006-Peter Schiff Predicts The US Economic Collapse With Unbelievable Accuracy And now on 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cml7JLfGxkY

Congressman Andrews is no friend of the people and believes “that it is unfortunate some people have to pay for the rest of us” when I questioned him about four years ago what he would do about the people that were losing their homes, bank accounts, marriages, getting locked up or harassed by the I.R.S. or committing suicide due to the “income tax”. And what about the U.S. Supreme Court. BRUSHABER v. UNION PACIFIC R. CO., 240 U.S. 1 (1916). 240 U.S. 1 explained that 16th Amendment gave Congress no new powers and the man that was made to pay the tax was not made to pay on his own money but rather on the foreign investor’s money that he acted as an agent for. I have many more case laws from the United States Supreme Court that support this that I will put up later. You see we have a Federal Government and not a National one.

Why am I mentioning all this is you ask? Because the I.R.S. acts like a strong arm for the privately owned bank better known as the Federal Reserve, which is no friend of the American people. Ronald Reagan had the Grace commission do an investigation as to where the money collected known as the “income tax” was going. To everyone’s surprise not one nickel went topaying anything in the United States of America this great Republic. It went to paying down the national debt that is created when the Federal Reserve prints money out of thin air and lends it to banks.

Which brings me back to Congressman Andrews, who voted for the Bailout. Because he went along with the congressmen who sold us out by supporting it which protected the banks. This hurts everyone whether a union worker, Non-union worker, teacher, or the unemployed trying to make ends meet.

As Americans we should vote on the issues first and not on party lines. Andrews made it clear to me about four years ago where his heart was at when I posed the question above in the third paragraph, afterward he said to me that “you should go find someone else to represent you.”

We need a change like the presidential candidates are saying, but the true changes can only come by Congress. My personal opinion is that the presidential race has been compromised. Plus McCain and Obama two out of ten candidates that are presently running for office voted for the Bailout.What we need are jobs, free markets and no more welfare for Banks or Corporations. We must get rid of the Federal Reserve a Privately owned bank because they are the ones that are responsible for creating the booms and busts since the Fed. was created in 1913 along with the private corporation (strong arm) the Internal Revenue Service Corp. that is used to collect the interest that was also created the “Income Tax" (the slave tax).

We need to reduce spending and stop giving away billions of dollars to foreign countries. What is worse is that the people of the countries that receive money from us don’t even like or care for us, the American People and our Republic. The elected have to worry about Americans first and they need to reopen our bases here in America which will help with the economy and to truly secure our Republic and for which it stands.

The cost of sustaining our military around the world will continue to break American’s wealth down. It is bad enough that we no longer produce goods like we use to so we provide instead military forces for hire that will only continue to cost American lives.

By producing goods wealth is create. With tangible goods sales and services are created to sale, service or transport the goods, making the economy strong and stable. Which America has been losing very fast in the past few centuries due to the career politicians decision making. Americans have lost their purchasing power we once had.Just look at the inflation how it keeps going up along with cost of gold and silver and the sales in fire arms.
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The increase of sales in firearms shows the lack of faith in our government to sustain order and safety in what is yet to come and unavoidable unless we change the elect that are in office now that are not complying with the constitution. Our founding fathers warned us about of the very thing that is happening to us right now.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802)
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

We need factories here in America like steel factories, textile, and non-lead toy factories rather than paying the factories to leave our country. We need American made goods. We need to jump start America again in order to survive against other strong countries. We need to stop turning our factories into strip malls with foreign goods being sold in them.

We have an opportunity every two years to replace our congressman regardless of who they are. Now we have a chance to place someone new and start over fresh.

Engage in your God given right and get out and vote, but please do it wisely!

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