FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LALOR ONLY 19^th CD CONTENDER TO SIGN TAXPAYER PROTECTION PLEDGE

Peekskill, NY / August 4, 2007 –  Kieran Michael Lalor and the KML2008 Congressional Exploratory Committee are  proud to announce that Mr. Lalor signed the Americans For Tax Reform pledge to the taxpayers of the 19^th District and to the American People. 

Recently, Americans For Tax Reform asked Mr. Lalor to pledge in writing 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.”  On August 4, 2007 Lalor's signature was witnessed by two 19^th District constituents as per the requirements of Americans For Tax Reform. 

Americans For Tax Reform was founded in 1985 by future Attorney General Bill Barr to organize grass-roots support for President Ronald Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform Act.   Since 1986, Americans for Tax Reform has sponsored the "Taxpayer Protection Pledge", a written promise by legislators and candidates for office that commits them to oppose tax increases.  According to a 2006, news release by the group 47 U.S. senators, and 223 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have signed the pledge, as well as six governors and over 1,300 state legislators.

Said Lalor, “I signed the pledge without hesitation and with great enthusiasm because over taxation is both an economic and moral issue.  Bloated budgets and high tax rates cost jobs and serve as an enormous bar to the American Dream.  When the government takes more than forty-percent of a family’s income to redistribute and waste on inefficient and constitutionally questionable programs it is morally reprehensible and violates the fundamental principles upon which the Republic was founded.”

For more information from The KML2008 Congressional Exploratory Committee: www.kml2008.org  (845) 616 3509

For information from Americans For Tax Reform:  www.atr.org (202) 785-0266