BUCHANAN FOR CONGRESS

Balance The Budget and Pay Off the Debt

Our four trillion dollar federal budget, $50,000 each year per family of four, is out of control.

The Choice

Our federal government's debt is more than $19 trillion, more than $200,000 per family of four.

Without radical changes, our growing debt will destroy our country, the value of the dollar, and our economy.

Republicans and Democrats have lied to you and sold our country to special interests who benefit from reckless spending.

Government already takes a third of what we earn in taxes. Giving government more money is not the answer.

This is your choice: Do you vote for the old parties that are destroying our country? Or do you join with Libertarians to save it?

The Change

Immediately pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Save more than a trillion dollars a year with these ten changes in our federal government:

• Do not loan money, subsidize loans, or guarantee loans for anyone.
• End all subsidies for businesses big or small, including all farm subsidies and ethanol subsidies.
• Get the federal government out of education.
• Get the federal government out of housing.
• Convert programs for the poor to block grants to the states, with full freedom for states to change them.
• Cut military spending in half. Bring our troops home and end the wars.
• Stop giving money and weapons to other countries.
• End programs that are not essential functions of the federal government.
• Make Medicare a high-deductible plan and negotiate Medicare drug prices.
• Gradually raise the age for full Social Security retirement from 67 to 70.

These changes will produce a sustained budget surplus. Use it to pay down the debt.

Paid for by Martin L. Buchanan