Dr. Davis On The Issues - The Series

The United States has one of the highest tax rates on her workforce in the world, especially on businesses and business owners. Abolishing the Internal Revenue Service and the complicated Tax Code has been offered as a solution and to be replaced with a “Fair Tax” system. What do you feel is the best solution for the mess that the tax system has become and what avenue do you believe the government should use to raise revenue?

"I believe the primary issue is to reduce the size and scope (and thus cost) of the federal government to its constitutional limits. We can then establish what revenue is actually needed for the federal government to exercise its constitutional duties and powers. I believe it should be provided by a system of excise taxes and user fees replacing the income tax (and the IRS), supplemented if necessary by a system of consumption tax on all consumption beyond basic needs at established and defined levels for food, shelter, clothing, transportation, and health care. (Meanwhile we need aggressive action to reduce and ultimately pay off the national debt, with strict limits on any new borrowing for long term capital projects in the absence of emergencies like war.)"

Dr. Richard Davis

2010 District 1 Congressional Candidate for The Maryland Libertarian Party