New Hampshire State Senator Robert Clegg is currently running for congress in New Hampshire’s 2nd congressional district. A Republican, Senator Clegg served four terms in the New Hampshire House of Representatives prior to his current term in the state senate.
Senator Clegg is a supporter of the FairTax and offers this post to The Fair Tax Blog with his thoughts on the “stimulus” package and the FairTax:
This week folks will see checks in the mail from the federal government. As part of the so-called stimulus package, the government is returning $600 that it originally took from your paycheck. Apparently Washington politicians have come to the realization that more money in your pocket will stimulate the economy and create jobs. The cost of notifying you of the $600 being returned to your pocket is somewhere in the neighborhood of $42 million and that didn’t even cover the cost of printing new checks and mailing them back to you!
Imagine if the government had left that money in your paycheck in the beginning. Imagine if the government didn’t spend $42 million to let you know it was sending you back some of your hard earned dollars. Imagine if the government didn’t spend millions more of your money sending you back your money.
That is why I am a proponent of the Fair Tax. Lets leave the paycheck with the family. Let’s not tax the worker who takes on a second job to send his daughter to college rather than sitting back relying on the government to increase taxes to do it for him. Let’s change the system to one where your purchasing decisions determine what taxes you pay and your productivity is rewarded not punished.
It’s time for America to allow a family to work hard to better itself, to feed itself, to nurture the belief that a self-sufficient, self-reliant population is a better place than one that waits for government to do it all. We need to reward hard work. We need to leave the paycheck in the pocket of those who have earned it. The time has come for a Fair Tax.
NH State Senator Bob Clegg