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Discussion Membership
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Our politicsWe believe that lower taxes and lower tariffs are good for all Americans. Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt deepened and lengthened the Great Depression by increasing both. Letting the Bush tax cuts expire would further empty the wallets of many American voters by dragging down the economy. We believe that a little redistribution, paid for by a strong capitalist economy, can help lift those at the bottom of society, but that more redistribution reduces the incentive to work from bottom to top along the entire economic range. We believe that your wealth belongs to you and not to someone else to redistribute. We believe that liberty has produced more equality than enforced equality of result has produced. Enforced equality has impoverished more people than it has helped. Enforced equality invariably makes those in power more equal than others, creating a privileged set of politicians leads to greed, graft, crime, and abuse. We believe that people should support themselves and that government's responsibility is the least intrusive means of helping them learn how. We believe that government isn't the answer to every problem, government isn't the answer to most problems, and government plans often work poorly, cost more, divide citizens, and cause unintended consequences. When government is the problem, more government is seldom the answer. We believe that judges should interpret laws accurately and evenhandedly and that "fairness" is the job of legislators writing sound laws, not judges interpreting them. We believe in free speech. Period. The so-called "Fairness Doctrine" was a threat by the powerful to intimidate free speech. We believe that campaign finance reform has failed, and whatever its intentions some candidates interpret the rules to be what you can get away with. We believe anyone should be able to contribute whatever they want, but that every dollar contributed should be publicly accounted for individually, that bundlers should be outlawed, and that foreign contributions should be refused. We believe that although schools may succeed at teaching subjects, they fail. Our children no longer learn to defend themselves against theatrical rhetoric. They no longer learn the real lessons of history that have been lost among the easily testable facts, and they no longer learn in economics what policies, like socialism, have never worked in practice and never will. We believe that education is a lifelong opportunity that is too important to be restricted by government. We believe Adam's Smith's abiding suspicion of anyone who claims special privilege and expertise. We believe in competition and the reduction of rules that inhibit it. We believe that journalism has failed and deserves the ultimate punishment of being laughed at. We believe that the idea of a Shield Law creates a special class of people unaccountable to anyone. We believe that moral relativism is bankrupt and a dead legacy of the last century. We believe cultural diversity can live and thrive in the same community and in the same world because all who choose to be civil share the simplest of threads of human decency that are worth protecting. We believe international cooperation is vital, uniting nations that value the vital threads of human decency. We believe that being popular is a poor substitute for understanding what is important and why. We believe that a strong defense is essential because there are people outside and inside America who would use any means to destroy those threads. We believe there are those who want to overwhelm our social institutions, using one set of American values to undermine others. Equality and fairness are pitted against liberty in economics, politics, and the press. We believe that intimidation is not a legitimate tool of politics and that union card-checks should be as secret as ballots. We believe our founders fervent understanding that power rests in the people, not government, and that people should not use government to impose their wishes on other people. We believe that throwing other people's money at problems does not necessarily solve them. Nor does throwing more government at problems necessarily solve them.
We believe you should be careful deciding for whom to vote. Liars, cheats, and thieves have no place in politics, yet they are all too common. Avoid candidates who would have you give up your liberty for empty promises served on a platter. [Macro error: Can't find a sub-table named "commentIt".]
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