After months of opinions expressed and votes cast on YourVoiceYourHouse.com, Frank Guinta has released his final list of fifteen reforms to bring to Washington in his first 100 days in Congress. The People’s Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Pact began with ten ways to return accountability to Washington. Since this effort began, enthusiastic voters have cast their ballot for the final five proposals.
Guinta offered the following statement regarding the release of this list:
“The People’s Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Pact is a commitment I am making to the people of New Hampshire about where my priorities will be as a member of Congress. When I take the Oath of Office to represent the First District, it’s a promise I will make to stand up for taxpayers, and the Constitution of the United States. ‘Your Voice, Your House’ is a way to allow the people to stand with me, and to tell me the most important reforms I can help bring in my first 100 days in Congress. I look forward to the opportunity to live up to my word after I am elected.”
The winning reforms as chosen on YourVoiceYourHouse.com are:
- Reclaiming the People’s House: Establish term limits for members of the House of Representatives
- Show Committee votes online: Post members’ committee votes within 48 hours
- Repeal the Death Tax: The death tax is scheduled to come back to life in 2011 and should be permanently repealed. The death tax discourages saving and investing, undermines job creation, wage growth and hurts those who have their savings tied up in land and other hard-to-sell assets.
- Eliminate the Capital Gains Tax: Encourage businesses to invest in job-creating capital investments
- No to Automatic Congressional Pay Raises: The automatic ‘cost of living’ adjustment for members of Congress is wrong. I will offer legislation to do away with it and to require any increase in compensation to be voted on publicly.
The People’s Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Pact:
- Enact a National Spending Cap Constitutional Amendment
- Enact a Balanced Budget Amendment
- Enact a simplified tax system, and scrap the Internal Revenue Code
- End the “stimulus” era of endless bailouts, wasteful spending and government ownership of private property
- Open up and develop existing American energy resources, and remove roadblocks and barriers to responsible energy exploration on our soil and off our shores
- Institute a complete audit of all federal agencies and programs to assess their constitutionality and to identify current duplication, waste and inefficiencies
- Encourage job growth through a series of permanent tax cuts and regulatory reforms
- Repeal Obamacare and replace it with free market solutions
- Apply a constitutionality test to every bill brought before Congress
- Institute government transparency: make all non-emergency legislation public, in its final form, at least 72 hours before a vote can be taken on it
- Reclaiming the People’s House: Establish term limits for members of the House of Representatives
- Show Committee votes online: Post members’ committee votes within 48 hours
- Repeal the Death Tax: The death tax is scheduled to come back to life in 2011 and should be permanently repealed. The death tax discourages saving and investing, undermines job creation, wage growth and hurts those who have their savings tied up in land and other hard-to-sell assets.
- Eliminate the Capital Gains Tax: Encourage businesses to invest in job-creating capital investments
- No to Automatic Congressional Pay Raises: The automatic ‘cost of living’ adjustment for members of Congress is wrong. I will offer legislation to do away with it and to require any increase in compensation to be voted on publicly.
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