John Rubin Files for State Representative in District 18
John Rubin, Republican of Shawnee, has filed as a candidate for State Representative in District 18 for the election to be held in 2010. Rubin told the Shawnee Dispatch he will be focusing on his core principles, which include fiscal responsiblity.
Id like to adopt a budget policy and spending policy that are responsible regardless of economic upturns and downturns, so the state never faces the kinds of budget issues were facing now, he said.
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Mr. Rubin elaborated:
"We are experiencing jaw-dropping deficits and government debt which will burden our children and grandchildren for years to come, budget shortfalls which prevent funding of essential government services, and most devastating of all a soaring unemployment rate, depriving alarming numbers of hard-working Kansans the job opportunities necessary to provide for ourselves and our families.
The solution to this crisis is disarmingly simple. Stop hamstringing and punishing, over-taxing and over-regulating those who provide the jobs in our state. I propose that we significantly and permanently reduce both corporate and individual income tax rates which apply to subchapter S corporations across the board in Kansas; totally eliminate taxation of capital gains and dividends both to spur investment, and out of a sense of fairness, since income taxes have already been paid on those gains at the time they were earned by corporations and businesses; and ensure that necessary health care and other reforms do not impose new taxes, fines, financial burdens or costly bureaucratic red tape on Kansas businesses.
The results of such measures, confirmed by history, will be swift and sure: economic development will be spurred in our state, existing businesses will expand, new businesses will relocate here, many thousands of new jobs will be created, and strapped state tax revenues receipts will increase dramatically, as the reduction in tax rates will be more than offset by the additional taxes collected from increased economic activity and the thousan ds of new taxpaying wage earners employed here. It has happened every time it has been tried: the Kennedy tax cuts, the Reagan tax cuts, the Bush I and Bush II tax cuts, and every significant state tax cut has created millions of new jobs and greatly increased tax revenues.
So it will be here. Lets get Kansans back to work!"
