Moore Taxes Will Hurt Economy:

Largest Tax Hike in History Means Fewer Jobs and Less Money for Kansas Families

April 15, 2008 

Today in America, when people look towards Washington, they are frustrated by what they see: Washington politicians – Democrats and Republicans alike – who have their heads planted firmly in the sand, ignoring the critical challenges facing America.  Rather than finding real solutions to America’s difficult problems, they seem to be only making things worse. 

As millions of Americans drop checks in the mail to Uncle Sam today, politicians in Washington are licking their chops, looking forward to another helping.  Just this past month, as concern about our fragile economy grows, Dennis Moore, led by Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat leadership, voted on a budget bill that paves the way for the largest tax increase in U.S. history and significantly grows the size of government on the backs of every taxpayer in America. (House Roll Call 141).

The tax increase totaling $683 billion would force every taxpayer in America to pay higher taxes.  As a result, even the millions of Americans who struggle the most to take care of their families would be forced to break out their checkbooks and foot the bill for Congress' ever-increasing appetite for new programs and pet projects.

By voting for the largest tax increase in our nation’s history and wildly increasing spending, Congress has revealed that it is broken and incapable of responsibly handling America's economy.

As a member of the House Budget Committee, Dennis Moore was one of the 22 architects of this historic tax increase who have now voted for it twice, including voting specifically to cut the child tax credit in half from $1000 to $500, reinstate the marriage penalty tax, and increase the average family’s income taxes by thousands a year. The tax hike would even resurrect the death tax.

According to a recent economic study by the Heritage Foundation on the effects of this massive tax increase, the average taxpayer in the 3^rd Congressional District of Kansas would eventually pay an additional $2,422 a year in income tax, with an estimated average loss of $1,491 of income for each worker in the district.  This is no small thing for most of us. It makes buying food, paying the mortgage, and saving for our kids’ college all that much harder.

While now expecting Kansas families to pay an additional $500 per child and $2,422 more in income taxes, Congress, including Dennis Moore, have been voting to spend your tax dollars on outrageous pork barrel projects like New York Congressman Charlie Rangel's outrageous $2 million pet project to create a "Monument to Himself." Moore even voted to block good government efforts to put a freeze on runaway pork barrel earmarks and bipartisan reform to fix the problem of earmark abuse.

This much we know to be true. The same Washington politicians doing the same old things will only yield more of the same failed and broken system we have now.

But we do not have to accept this failed and broken system.  You have my commitment that when I go to Congress, I will work to bring the kind of change we need in Washington. Not the empty rhetoric that some offer, but real change backed up by a record of accomplishment.

For 12 years in the Kansas Senate, I have worked to grow our economy by lowering taxes and leading the charge on issues like the Kansas Economic Growth Act, which created the Kansas Bioscience Initiative and the Kansas Entrepreneurship Initiative – innovative ideas that are generating new and good paying jobs for Kansas families.

I am honored that because of my achievements in making Kansas a better place for job creation, the National Federation of Independent Businesses named me the Guardian of Small Business.

At this critical time in our nation’s history, it is this ability to build bridges in order to get big things done that we desperately need in Washington. 

This election year voters have a simple choice to make. If they are happy with the job Congress is doing, then by all means, they can vote for Dennis Moore and the status quo in Washington. But if they are tired of the failed and broken system in Congress and they want leaders with experience bringing jobs and positive economic change to Kansas, then they should vote for Nick Jordan for Congress.

With some Kansas values and a little more common sense, I know we can wake up Washington and get America headed toward a new day. 

Help Nick Jordan wake up Washington by donating online at www.NickJordan.com. 

Author: Senator Nick Jordan was the founding president of the Overland Park Convention and Visitors Bureau and has served in the Kansas State Senate for 12 years. He and his wife, Linda, own Walls of Clay, a small business in Shawnee, KS. You can learn more about Nick at www.NickJordan.com.