Congress Docket

The Fair Tax Act of 2019

1 BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:

2 SECTION 1. The following sections of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 are repealed:

 3 A. Subtitle A (relating to income taxes and self-employment taxes)

 4 B. Subtitle C (relating to payroll taxes and withholding of income taxes)

 5 C. Subtitle B (relating to estate and gift taxes)

 6 D. Subtitle H (relating to financing of Presidential campaign elections).

 7 SECTION 2. A sales tax of 23 percent shall be placed on all gross payments for taxable

 8 property or service, but shall not be placed on previously taxable wages.

 9 A. All taxes shall be collected by the vendor and transmitted to the taxable

10 authority within each individual state, which shall then transmit the sales

11 tax to the Department of the Treasury.

12 B. A family unit may apply for a yearly refund of their sales tax if their annual

13 income is less than the annual poverty level as determined by the

14 Department of Health and Human Services.

15 SECTION 3. The Department of the Treasury will oversee the collection and enforcement of

16 this sales tax.

17 SECTION 4. This shall take effect in fiscal year 2021.

18 SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

Cyber Deterrence and Response Act of 2019

1 BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:

2 SECTION 1. The President, acting through the Secretary of State, shall designate as a critical

3 cyber threat actor—

4 A. Any foreign person, agency, or state that the President determines to be

5 knowingly responsible for or complicit in, or have engaged in, directly or

6 indirectly, state-sponsored cyber activities that are reasonably likely to

7 result in, or have contributed to, a significant threat to the national security,

8 foreign policy, or economic health or financial stability of the United States

9 B. each foreign person that the President has determined to have knowingly,

10 significantly, and materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial,

11 material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support

12 of, any activities described in subparagraph (A) by a foreign person or

13 agency or instrumentality of a foreign state designated as a critical cyber

14 threat actor under subparagraph (A)

15 SECTION 2. Not later than 7 days after designating a foreign person, agency, or state as a

16 critical cyber threat actor, the President shall transmit classified or unclassified

17 information to the appropriate congressional committees.

18 SECTION 3. For state and agency actors, the following sanctions apply:

19 A. The immediate withdrawal or limitation of all humanitarian and non-

20 humanitarian aid under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.

21 B. A directive to each international financial institution to use the voice and

22 vote of the United States to oppose any loan that would benefit said state.

23 For foreign persons, the following sanctions apply:

24 A. Immediate ineligibility for visas, admission, or parole, and immediate

25 revocation of any current visas.

26 SECTION 4. This shall take effect ninety days after passage.  

27 SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

Ethics in Public Service Act

1 BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:

2 SECTION 1. Within 30 days of taking office, each appointee in every executive agency shall

3 be required to sign an ethics pledge as a condition of employment.

4 SECTION 2. The pledge shall include the following clauses, enforceable by law:

5 A. I will not accept gifts from registered lobbyists or lobbying organizations for

6 the duration of my service.

7 B. I will not participate in any particular matter involving specific party or

8 parties that is directly and substantially related to my former employer or

9 clients.

10 C. I will not engage in any lobbying activities for a period of 2 years following

11 the end of my appointment, or to lobby any executive branch official for the

12 remainder of the Administration.

13 D. Any hiring or other employment decisions I make will be based on the

14 candidate’s qualifications, competence, and experience.

15 SECTION 3. The President shall have the authority to waive this pledge for any official when

16 the President determines it is in the public interest to grant such a waiver.

17 SECTION 4. This shall apply any executive agency as defined in section 105 of title 5, United

18 States Code.

19 SECTION 5. This shall take effect immediately upon passage.  

20 SECTION 6. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

United States and Republic of Korea Alliance Support Act

1 BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:

2 SECTION 1. None of the funds made available to the Department of Defense for fiscal year

3 2019 may be used to reduce the total number of members of the United States

4 Armed Forces serving on active duty who are deployed to the Republic of Korea

5 below 22,000 unless the Secretary of Defense submits a report to the

6 appropriate congressional committees regarding:

7 A. the effect of such reduction on preserving deterrence on the Korean

8 Peninsula;

9 B. the anticipated reaction of North Korea to such reduction;

10 C. the effect of such reduction on increasing incentives for the Republic of

11 Korea to develop an independent nuclear deterrent;

12 D. the effect of such reduction on the long-term military and economic

13 partnership between the United States and the Republic of Korea and the

14 United States and Japan, respectively; and

15 E. the effect of such reduction on the military balance between the United

16 States and the People’s Republic of China and between the United States

17 and the Russian Federation.

18 SECTION 2. No drawdown shall be permitted until the Secretary of Defense certifies that

19 such a reduction supports and is consistent with the most current national

20 defense strategy under section 113 of title 10, United States Code.

21 SECTION 3. The appropriate congressional committees shall include the Committee of

22 Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Armed Services in the House of

23 Representatives, and the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee

24 on Armed Services of the Senate.

25 SECTION 4. Indicate the implementation date/timeframe. 

26 SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.