Fix the Debt

Lamar Alexander is a conservative working to solve one of our country's greatest problem - our debt.  

Mike Huckabee stands with Lamar

Newt Gingrich stands with Lamar
"Lamar Alexander fights for lower taxes, less bureaucracy in Washington, more jobs in Tennessee, more take-home pay in your pocket and more freedom for you and your children. As a committee chairman next year, he will play a vital role in ending the Obama era in health and in education. We need Lamar's experience and shrewdness to fix Washington.” - Newt Gingrich

President Reagan's favorite economist Art Laffer stands with Lamar
"No one is more responsible for Tennessee’s low taxes, correct spending policies and pro-growth economic environment than former Governor Lamar Alexander.  That environment is the primary reason that our family on July 1, 2006, moved from California to Tennessee. Lamar has continued those policies in the United States Senate, which is why I am voting for him in the Republican primary on August 7."- Art Laffer

Lamar Alexander's record on stopping the Obama spending spree and fixing the debt.

  • Opposed increasing the debt limit because it failed to address the federal government’s most urgent need: reducing the growth of mandatory entitlement spending that is driving our $17 trillion debt
  • Proposed Fiscal Sustainability Act to reduce growth of automatic spending by $1 trillion. 
  • Opposed President Obama’s $1.2 trillion stimulus package. 
  • Supports a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
  • Supported the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act to cut federal spending, cap all future spending and require Congress pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. Stand with Lamar in favor of a Balanced Budget amendment at PassABalancedBudget.com.
  • Supported the No Budget, No Pay Act to cut off pay to members of Congress if Congress doesn’t pass a budget. 
  • Supported the Budget Control Act to reduce federal spending and put discretionary spending on a controlled path over 10 years.
  • Opposed raiding Medicare to pay for new entitlement programs.
  • Has been endorsed by the National Federation of Independent Businesses, the Chamber of Commerce, and Association of Builders and Contractors.
  • Supported consolidation of more than 1,000 duplicative and overlapping federal programs. 
  • Voted against raiding Social Security to pay for extending unemployment benefits Sponsored an amendment to stop wind energy projects from double dipping and receiving multiple federal benefits for the same project.
  • Sponsored the Earmark Transparency Act to ban earmarks. 
  • Supported the American Taxpayer Relief Act to lower tax rates for 99 percent of Americans.
  • Supported effort to permanently repeal the federal Death Tax.
  • Supported the One Page Flat Tax Act to create an optional 17 percent federal flat tax.
  • As governor, Lamar balanced our budget eight times, left the state with AAA bond rating and no income tax.
  • As governor, Lamar built the nation's best four-lane highway and left the state with zero road debt.

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