Dallas County Democrats
State Republican Platforms: Fiscal Responsibility

These are excerpts from Platforms and Resolutions passed by various state Republican parties this year. They show how far out of the mainstream are the extremists that have taken over the Republican party.

• Arkansas: We believe that it is essential to lower, or at least index, the capital gains tax so that the federal and state governments do not continue to tax inflation rather than real income.
• California: To create a society modeled on privatization, modernization, technology and volunteerism to reduce the size of government, we support restrictions on the power of state agencies and unelected officials to enact regulations on their own. We support Republican proposals for a cap on all taxes ­ federal, state and local combined.
• Maine: [W]e advocate: ... Limiting government taxation at all levels; federal, state, and local combined, in peacetime, to 25% of all personal income.
• Nevada: We oppose any federal taxes on gaming or mining. We support abolishing the current IRS system.
• North Carolina: Taxes on capital gains take away better jobs from working families. We support eliminating this jobs destroying tax.
• South Carolina: The Party clearly understands that capital gains taxes are particularly pernicious in discouraging new investment and job creation. Studies also show progressive income taxes are economically more harmful than flat rate taxes raising the same amount of revenue. A growth-maximizing strategy calls for low taxes, and a low proportion of expenditures going for growth-inhibiting transfer payments.
• Texas: We support fundamental tax reform, including such measures as cutting individual tax rates, the elimination of the marriage penalty tax and the death (inheritance) tax, and elimination of capital gains and corporate income taxes. We urge that the IRS be abolished and the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution be repealed.
• Washington: At the national level, we support: ... The replacement of the current graduated income tax structure with a simplified tax system such as a flat tax or national sales tax. At the national level, we support: ...a substantial reduction of the capital gain taxes.*Wisconsin: Specifically, we call for the elimination of the capital gains and business personal property taxes.
• Wisconsin: Be it further resolved that there be no tax on estate, gifts, capital gains, interest, and dividends.
• Texas: The Party calls for the United States monetary system to be returned to the gold standard. Since the Federal Reserve System is a private corporation, has no reserves, and is not subject to taxation or audit, we call on Congress to abolish this institution and reassume its authority enumerated by Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, for the coinage of money.
• Iowa: We call for the repeal of the 16th amendment and abolition of federal, state, and local income taxes, and for the return to the revenue generating system outlined in the original Constitution.
• Nevada: We support legislation to sunset the current Federal Tax Code by Dec. 31, 2001.
• Minnesota: We support the following reforms: ... Abolishing the current IRS tax code and replacing it with a simpler, fairer tax system that favors a national sales tax or a flat tax.

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