PRESCOTT - Rusty Bowers, a conservative republican running in Arizona's First Congressional District, signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge.

 The Taxpayer Protection Pledge is sponsored by the Americans for Tax Reform and for over 20 years has been a standard carried by candidates with conservative principles. Bowers will visit Washington next week as part of a whirlwind trip where he will meet with other conservative groups, including the Americas for Tax Reform, so he can work with other conservatives to make conservative ideas become policy.
The Americans for Tax Reform's Taxpayer Protection Pledge began in 1986. It aims to create "a system in which taxes are simpler, flatter, more visible and lower than they are today. The government's power to control one's life derives from its power to tax. We believe that power should be minimized." Signers of the pledge commit themselves to "oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rates for individuals and/or businesses ... and oppose any net reduction or elimination of deductions and credits, unless matched dollar for dollar by further reducing tax rates."
Rusty joins 34 members of the Senate and 172 members of the House who have signed the pledge, including Senators Kyl and McCain and Congressmen Flake, Franks and Shadegg. Rusty signed because he believes "The spending policies of this administration and past Congresses have put us at tremendous financial risk. I see no alternative but to cut spending and relieve the burden on the American taxpayer. The typical Arizona family cannot mandate an increase for their spending wants, neither should Congress. The time has come for Arizona families to tell Congress what their credit limit is."

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