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Yesterday afternoon, FreedomWorks held a press conference on Capitol Hill in support of the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights. According to the FreedomWorks Web site, the plan has four pillars:
1) Spending caps to stop out of control budget growth.
2) Preserving Social Security money just for Social Security, not for a Congressional slush fund.
3) Sun-setting the entire federal tax code to hold budgets accountable to outcomes.
4) A balanced budget without raising taxes.
Senator Jim DeMint and former majority leader Dick Armey were joined by several others (including Alison Fraser of the Heritage Foundation) who spoke to how valuable this plan would be to the conservative movement. Fraser has written extensively on the subject of government spending and most recently published a paper on the topic mentioned above. Her paper on the RSC's Taxpayers Bill of Rights can be found here.
Photos from the press conference are here via Rob Bluey.