The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should be discarded. Foremost, this bureau enjoys the authority to write its own rules which it then enforces a grotesque circumvention of congress’ constitutional jurisdiction. It also is a wasteful duplication of multiple – federal offices and agencies. The federal government is already bloated beyond what is reasonable. People are hungry in your congressional district. What would you do to alleviate this problem? What northwestern Ohio residents need is a common approach to the economy. This means significant deregulation of the industries which generate the most employment opportunities here, and federal tax reforms that are actually meaningful to everyday working Americans. On the second point, while I favor scrapping the tax code entirely and replacing it either with a simple flat tax or the Fair Tax (federal sales tax on purchases of items new at retail), one change in taxation I intend to pursue is a dramatic reduction to federal diesel fuel taxes. The benefits of slashing diesel fuel taxes would be both swift and long-lasting. Transportation is one of the main pillars of America’s economy along with manufacturing, tech, agriculture, and retail. All of those industries rely on a healthy transportation industry. – Every product we buy is moved from one point to another by a diesel engine vehicle, whether you’re talking about its raw materials, separate components, or the final product. The improvements this would bring to everyone’s cost of living making a great many necessities more affordable would bring relief – – to middle class and lower income families not just in northwestern Ohio but across our great nation.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should be discarded. Foremost, this bureau enjoys the authority to write its own rules which it then enforces – a grotesque circumvention of congress’ constitutional jurisdiction. It also is a wasteful duplication of multiple federal offices and agencies. The federal government is already bloated beyond what is reasonable. People are hungry in your congressional district. What would you do to alleviate this problem? What northwestern Ohio residents need is a common approach to the economy. This means significant deregulation of the industries which generate the most employment opportunities here, and federal tax reforms that are actually meaningful to everyday working Americans. On the second point, while I favor scrapping the tax code entirely and replacing it either with a simple flat tax or the Fair Tax (federal sales tax on purchases of items new at retail), one change in taxation I intend to pursue is a dramatic reduction to federal diesel fuel taxes. The benefits of slashing diesel fuel taxes would be both swift and long-lasting. Transportation is one of the main pillars of America’s economy – along with manufacturing, tech, agriculture, and retail. All of those industries rely on a healthy transportation industry. Every product we buy is moved from one point to another by a diesel engine vehicle, whether you’re talking about its raw materials, separate components, or the final product. The improvements this would bring to everyone’s cost of living – making a great many necessities more affordable – would bring relief to middle class and lower income families not just in northwestern Ohio but across our great nation.
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