A.R.A. s 44 subsidiary state associations receive bill summaries, amendments, committee actions, floor votes and other such actions as they occur. In fact, Americans are taxed more heavily today than at any time in the country s history. The present income tax code is a garbled hodgepodge of complex and discriminatory rules patched together by social engineering over some 80 years, not for the primary purpose of revenue collection but for redistribution of income and savings from those who produce them to those who don t. Individuals and businesses must devote untold time and billions of dollars every year to meet elaborate but trivial recordkeeping requirements, prepare intricate returns and fight arcane issues. Americans have the right to relief from high business and individual taxes, a simplified tax code, and return of the budget surpluses created by overtaxation to those who were overtaxed.
Lower taxes are essential to sustaining our country s economic expansion.
Cut tax rates across the board to relieve all taxpayers of unnecessarily high taxes and return to them the portion of surpluses created by overtaxation. Repeal death taxes, allowing rental and other small business owners to keep their small businesses in the family. Their businesses are their lifetime, tax-paid savings. Eliminate capital gains taxation to encourage savings and investment. Allow full deductibility of health insurance premiums for the self-employed.