The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

What's hurting the U.S. economy is total government spending. The deficit is an indicator that the government is spending so much money that it can't even get around to stealing all of the money that it wants to spend. But the tip of the iceberg is not what hit the Titanic - it was the 90 percent of the iceberg under water.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national, state and local level for lower taxes, less government spending and limited government.

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.