Edited sentence: As congressman, he has never voted to raise taxes or to approve an unbalanced budget and has also called for the abolition of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the federal income tax.Because of his dislike of the way goverment spends money it does not have, he has been a strong critic of the method of debt-based credit creation called fractional reserve banking advocating instead for a method of resembliling debt-free money creation to be achieved perhaps via monetary reform.He has been a strong critic of the way the Bush administration has conducted the Iraq War.He is an advocate of states' rights, free trade, fewer taxes, smaller government, strong national sovereignty, and non-interventionism.Paul has been named "The Taxpayer's Best Friend" by the National Taxpayers Union every year he has been in Congress.Paul supports reduced government spending and reduced taxes.Ron Paul has a strong constitutionalist and libertarian voting record