On taxes, McCain called for simplifying the confusing U.S. system of taxation. We have to reform the 44,000-page tax code. Specifically addressing estate tax reform, the former Republican presidential candidate called it a confiscatory tax that needs to be addressed by Congress. Click here for more. Voicing his support of state insurance regulation, Sen. Nelson told the 800 independent agents that oversight of the business should remain at the state level.
States ought to retain that jurisdiction.
It s important to the consuming public, he said. You look at the issue of what you re confronting this nationalization of licensing. It s going to be an issue. Right now, they re hell-bent for federalization. You re going to have some fights.