Republican Candidate for Congress Randy Altschuler Signs Taxpayer Protection Pledge, Calls on Tim Bishop to Do the Same

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Thursday, September 24, 2009

EAST SETAUKET, NY: Businessman and Republican candidate for US Congress, Randy Altschuler, released the following statement in response to signing the Americans for Tax Reform Taxpayer Protection Pledge:

"As I listen to people across the district, it is clear they want lower taxes and more jobs. If given the opportunity to serve the people of New York's First Congressional District in Congress, I pledge to them that I will never vote to raise their taxes," Altschuler said.

"The taxpayers of this district are fed up with higher taxes, the bailouts of Wall Street and the auto industry, and the $787 billion so-called stimulus package that was laden with pork for special interests.

"I call on Tim Bishop to sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge and, if he won't, to explain to the working families of the district why he believes his continued votes for higher taxes are in their best interest," Altschuler concluded.

The Anti-Tax Pledge commits signers to "oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal 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."

"By signing the pledge, Randy Altschuler demonstrates that he understands the problems of hardworking taxpayers nationwide, but especially the taxpayers of New York's 1st Congressional District," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.

Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) was founded in 1985 by Grover Norquist at the request of Ronald Reagan. Since ATR first sponsored the Pledge in 1986, hundreds of U.S. Representatives, more than fifty U.S. Senators have signed the Pledge. In the 111th Congress, 172 US Representatives and 34 US Senators have taken the Pledge never to raise income taxes.

Randy Altschuler is a businessman, former Fulbright Scholar and graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School. He is married to Cheryl Altschuler, MD, a practicing pediatrician in Shirley and Port Jefferson, New York. They have a young son, Noah, and reside in St. James, New York.