Republican Party of Dane County
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Republican Party of Dane County
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Dane County GOP on the Issues
Taxes
“All taxes ultimately – the consumer pays the taxes. Nobody else pays the taxes. Corporations don’t pay taxes. They collect them, but they don’t pay them.” Milton Friedman Comments to the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, March 31, 2005 FairTax: The Truth, Neal Boortz 2008 Harper
Money earned by the residents of Dane County should be theirs to spend. The government should not be looking to redistribute wealth through tax policy. More government, spending more money, is not the answer. Tax increases have never spurred economic growth. Tax cuts lead to greater economic prosperity and greater tax revenues.
Public Safety
“The idea of sweating the small stuff as a way of not allowing minor issues to spiral into major disasters brings to mind a quotation from Thomas De Quincey. “If a man indulges himself in murder,” it ran, “very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing, he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.”” Rudy Giuliani discussing the ‘broken windows’ theory in Leadership, 2002 Miramax Books
We believe that the residents of Dane County have the right to be protected by well-staffed, well-trained and well-funded law enforcement and fire departments. The growing crime problem needs to be addressed by our elected officials.
Economic Development
“[The] major impact of [the capital gains tax], as best I can judge, is to impede entrepreneurial activity and capital formation….I [have] argued that the appropriate capital gains tax [is] zero.” Alan Greenspan, 1997 Real Change, Newt Gingrich 2008 Regnery Publishing Inc.
Create jobs & a healthy business environment, which encourages business growth and expansion without excessive regulation and taxation. Alternative fuel development & use should be encouraged, not mandated. Experts in land use, not environmental activists, should decide land use issues. Plans should accommodate the anticipated population growth in Dane County and provide residents with choices in their housing decisions.
Education Reform
“The poorest and least-educated Americans are most victimized by government monopolies that fail. We must see these Americans as neighbors in need and organize to help them take on the unionized bureaucracies that help themselves before they help children.” Newt Gingrich Real Change 2008 Regnery Publishing Inc.
We request from our school administrators and elected school boards a measurable and accountable return on the money that we invest with them for the education of our children.
Fiscal Balance in Government
“Experience shows that once government undertakes an activity, it is seldom terminated. The activity may not live up to expectation but that is more likely to lead to its expansion, to its being granted a larger budget, than to its curtailment or abolition.” Milton Friedman Free to Choose, 1980 Harcourt Inc.
Just as we need to balance our personal checkbooks, government must live within it means. Local Government should do those things that only government should do, and nothing more. This includes the delivery of clean safe drinking water to our homes and businesses, street maintenance, public safety and rubbish collection.
American Values
“So let us ask ourselves, “What kind of people do we think we are? And let us answer, “Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.” Ronald Reagan 1982, Speaking to the British Parliament
We are law-abiding people who pay our taxes, obey
the law and fly the flag. The United States of America is a sovereign nation and
we have every right to control our borders. We expect that employers in Dane
County will abide by all laws in regard
Health Care
“We believe in the twenty-first-century pattern of more choices of higher quality at lower cost, which requires a market-based system where innovation and entrepreneurialism are protected and incentivized.” Health Values developed by The Center for Health Transformation Real Change, Newt Gingrich
Decrease costs by making insurance available on a pool basis for individuals and businesses. Greater private sector competition will lead to lower costs. Encouraging individuals to take responsibility for their own health care is a necessity.
Transportation
“If we're going to spend $150 billion, I'd like to suggest that maybe we add two lanes of highway from Bangor all the way to Miami on I-95. A third of the United States population lives within 100 miles of that. This nation's infrastructure is falling apart. And if we built those lanes of highways -- with American labor, American steel, American concrete - I believe it would do more to stimulate the economy.” Mike Huckabee Discussing 2008 stimulus package in Florida Atlantic University Presidential debate
Spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a trolley system and/or light rail system, at this time, is NOT a responsible use of Dane County taxpayers’ money. Other alternatives that will serve the needs of a majority of taxpayers should be explored.
Regional Transit Authority Statement
The Republican Party of Dane County (RPDC) is against the Regional Transit Authority (RTA) proposed for Dane County by County Executive Kathleen Falk and Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz. The proposal is opposed because:
The proposal creates a new annual tax of $40+ million that will never go away. This would take the form of an added one-half cent added to the sales tax.
For these reasons, the RPDC opposes the creation of an RTA as proposed by Kathleen Falk and Dave Cieslewicz.
We urge the Dane County Executive and the Madison Mayor to hold a countywide referendum on the RTA and a separate referendum on trolleys (as the Mayor promised in his 2006 campaign). We encourage the County Executive and the Mayor to pursue alternatives such as expanded bus service.
Learn more at The Great Train Robbery website
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