2014 GA Senate debate: on Tax Reform

Amanda Swafford: Politicians use tax code to for social engineering

• Enact the Fair Tax right away
• Reduce spending to at least 1998 levels (but 1992 or earlier levels would be preferable)
• Repeal the 16th Amendment
• Eliminate any and all forms of double taxation
• Eliminate the anti-competitive corporate income tax
• Eliminate the punitive estate tax

David Perdue: Cut spending AND increase revenue

"Both," Perdue replied emphatically.

"And that's a euphemism for some kind of tax increase?" the interviewer noted.

Perdue laughed and explained, "Well here's the reality: If you go into a business--I was never able to turn around a company just by cutting spending. You had to figure out a way to get revenue growing. There are five people in the US Senate who understand what I just said. You know revenue is not something they think about."

Perdue's spokesman claimed Perdue was only broadly talking about growing the economy. "David was stating a simple economic principle: If the economy is growing and more people were working, it generates more revenue."