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Gary Johnson presidential campaign, 2016/Taxes

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Gary Johnson announced his presidential run on January 6, 2016.[1]


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See what Gary Johnson and the 2016 Libertarian Party Platform said about taxes.

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  • Johnson supported eliminating the income and corporate taxes, abolishing the IRS, and replacing them with a federal consumption tax.
  • He advocated for replacing income, capital gains, and payroll taxes with a “Fair-tax.”

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    • During an interview on June 6, 2016, Gary Johnson said that as president he would eliminate the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and other federal agencies if Congress sent him legislation to do so. Johnson said, "If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax, we would eliminate corporate tax, we would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax. If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.”[2]
    • In a February 2012 op-ed for The Washington Times, Gary Johnson advocated for the elimination of income, capital gains and payroll taxes. In their place, Johnson said he would implement a "kind of a national sales tax called the Fair-tax." He wrote, "Some think the Fair-tax is regressive, but in fact it’s progressive - taxing the wealthy more than the poor. Fair-tax issues a 'prebate' for families to spend on food, clothing, transportation, medical care or whatever they want to spend it on - it’s their money. Undocumented immigrants will pay their taxes if they want to buy anything. They need a Social Security card to receive a prebate, so the incentive is for immigrants to get themselves on the books as fast as possible."[3]
    • According to the free enterprise advocacy group Club for Growth, Johnson called for reducing the top rate for New Mexico's income tax from 8.5 percent to 8 percent in the 1990s. In 2001, however, he vetoed a bill to reduce this rate from 8.2 percent to 7.7 percent "because it also lowered the dollar amount that the top rate kicked in."[4]
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    1. ↑ Reason.com, "Gary Johnson To Announce He's Running for President Today," January 6, 2016
    2. ↑ The Hill, "Libertarian Gary Johnson: I'd eliminate NSA, IRS if elected," June 6, 2016
    3. ↑ The Washington Times, "Johnson: Let's get America moving again," February 2, 2012
    4. ↑ Scribd, "Club for Growth: 2012 Presidential White Paper #9," July 21, 2011
    5. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
    6. ↑ Libertarian Party, "Libertarian Party Platform," May 27, 2016
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