Congressman Bill Shuster
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania

ISSUES : BUDGET

In times of economic stress, families throughout the 9th district do what families do everywhere; look for ways to save money, cut expenses and do more with less. This is commonsense budgeting and you should expect nothing less from your government.

Unfortunately, the Democrats in control of Congress aren't listening. The Democrats' $3.6 trillion budget taxes too much, spends too much, and borrows too much and in the process, mortgages our children's futures to fund a growing activist government.

  • I oppose a budget that will spend close to $4 trillion this year alone, and will triple our debt in ten years.
  • Under the Democrats' budget, every American household will be burdened with $46,533 in additional government debt.
  • To pay for it all, the Democrats' budget contains $1.5 trillion in tax increases that will leave no American family untouched.
  • This includes a national energy tax that will cost the average Pennsylvania family an additional $3,100 a year just to turn the lights on in their home.
  • At a time when people are losing their jobs and struggling to make ends meet, it is irresponsible to raise taxes on families and the small businesses that employ more than half the U.S. workforce.

The Republican Alternative:

The answer to how we can restore our economic growth will not be found in runaway federal spending, a massive energy tax on all Americans and the threat of a middle class tax hike to pay for government run rationed healthcare.

House Republicans continue to fight for a different kind of stimulus plan; an agenda that puts the American people back in the driver's seat of our economy by encouraging investment, cutting taxes and letting America's families and small businesses keep more of what they earn.


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