He would abolish the income tax for the vast bulk of Americans and replace the revenue with a 12.5 percent value-added tax.
However, Franks, comparing the anti-abortion movement to the campaign to abolish slavery, said the issue cut to the heart of the founding principles of the GOP.
She attacked the party for refusing to say it would abolish the bedroom tax, failing to speak up for the rights of immigrants and saying benefit cuts "aren't deep enough".
Next, he took on healthcare – with some of the worst infant mortality rates in the world, Sierra Leone's programme to abolish user fees for children under five and pregnant mothers was an ambitious and impressive programme of reform.
Having promised to "abolish the bureaucracy", the government is trebling the number of statutory commissioning bodies from 163 to over 500.
The Lib Dems, eager to restore credibility on the issue in the wake of their broken 2010 election pledge to abolish tuition fees, claim that the Labour plan will help richer graduates.
Asked whether family tax relief was possible this year, he pointed to the measure he would prefer to abolish, saying: "There is a scheduled tax cut that is still on the books to kick in this year and that is a change in the threshold that is a legacy from the carbon tax".
It's a green bank basically, set up as part of the clean energy package that the Coalition wants to abolish.
The Senate has again rejected the government's bill to abolish the CEFC.
Littler also says the $10bn Clean Energy Finance Corporation – which the government is seeking to abolish – "appears to be a good thing … but we need to see more detail".
Inside the Belfast Hilton hotel on Wednesday, he announced his strategic review of parading issues intended, ultimately, to abolish the commission altogether.
