Individual Liberty
Our moral, political, and economic liberties are inherent, not granted by our government. It is essential to the practice of these liberties that we be free from restriction over our peaceful political expression and free from excessive control over our economic choices.
Limited Government
The purpose of our government is to
exercise only those limited powers that have been relinquished to it by the
people, chief among these being the protection of our liberties by
administering justice and ensuring our safety from threats arising inside or
outside our country’s sovereign borders. When our government ventures beyond
these functions and attempts to increase its power over the marketplace and the
economic decisions of individuals, our liberties are diminished and the
probability of corruption, internal strife, economic depression, and poverty
increases.
Economic Freedom
The most powerful, proven instrument
of material and social progress is the free market. The market economy, driven
by the accumulated expressions of individual economic choices, is the only
economic system that preserves and enhances individual liberty. Any other
economic system, regardless of its intended pragmatic benefits, undermines our
fundamental rights as free people.
1. Protect the Constitution
Require each bill to identify the
specific provision of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what
the bill does. (82.03%)
2. Reject Cap & Trade
Stop costly new regulations that
would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation’s
global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures. (72.20%)
3. Demand a Balanced Budget
Begin the Constitutional amendment
process to require a balanced budget with a two-thirds majority needed for any
tax hike. (69.69%)
4. Enact Fundamental Tax Reform
Adopt a simple and fair single-rate
tax system by scrapping the internal revenue code and replacing it with one
that is no longer than 4,543 words—the length of the original Constitution. (64.90%)
5. Restore Fiscal Responsibility
& Constitutionally Limited Government in Washington
Create a Blue Ribbon taskforce that
engages in a complete audit of federal agencies and programs, assessing their
Constitutionality, and identifying duplication, waste, ineffectiveness, and
agencies and programs better left for the states or local authorities, or ripe
for wholesale reform or elimination due to our efforts to restore limited
government consistent with the US Constitution’s meaning. (63.37%)
6. End Runaway Government Spending
Impose a statutory cap limiting the
annual growth in total federal spending to the sum of the inflation rate plus
the percentage of population growth. (56.57%)
7. Defund, Repeal, & Replace
Government-run Health Care
Defund, repeal and replace the
recently passed government-run health care with a system that actually makes
health care and insurance more affordable by enabling a competitive, open, and
transparent free-market health care and health insurance system that isn’t
restricted by state boundaries. (56.39%)
8. Pass an ‘All-of-the-Above”
Energy Policy
Authorize the exploration of proven
energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from
unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers to all other forms of energy
creation, lowering prices and creating competition and jobs. (55.51%)
9. Stop the Pork
Place a moratorium on all earmarks
until the budget is balanced, and then require a 2/3 majority to pass any
earmark. (55.47%)
10. Stop the Tax Hikes
Permanently repeal all tax hikes,
including those to the income, capital gains, and death taxes, currently
scheduled to begin in 2011. (53.38%)
Source: www.thecontract.org
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