Ander Crenshaw Doubles Down on the FairTax

U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., the chairman of the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, doubled down on his support of the FairTax proposal on Thursday.

Across Northeast Florida and the nation, citizens are spending billions of dollars and hours navigating a complex tax code time and money that could be better spent growing our economy and creating jobs, Crenhaw said on Thursday. Putting a FairTax in place solves that issue and deserves immediate consideration by Congress.

The easy-to-understand FairTax would wipe out thousands of pages of regulations and loopholes and leave in place a transparent national sales tax on goods and services administered primarily by the state, Crenshaw added. Federal income taxes and the FICA payroll tax would be eliminated, and the IRS would no longer be needed. The poor are protected and everyone is treated equally: no exemptions, no exclusions, no advantages. Americans would be allowed to keep their entire paycheck and spend hard-earned dollars on ways that best suit them. On the business side, labor costs are lowered by eliminating payroll taxes, allowing companies to hire more workers.

Americans know best how to spend their money and deserve to keep more of their paycheck in their wallets and bank accounts, Crenshaw concluded. They dont need to be finding more dollars to send to Washington to fund big and costly government programs.

Crenshaw is one of more than 60 co-sponsors to the FairTax proposal authored by U.S. Rob Woodall, R-Ga.