 In 2009, he introduced a resolution urging the United States Congress to adopt the Fair Tax, calling for repeal of Sixteenth Amendment and expressing the will of the Georgia General Assembly to abolish the state income tax and replace it with a Fair Tax.In 2010, Shafer saw passage of his zero-based budgeting bill as well as legislation to reform transportation spending, subject state agencies to sunset review and expand Second Amendment rights.Governor Perdue vetoed all three bills.