National Responsibilities

All economies are National.  National Governments make the laws governing each economy.

Governments of Sovereign Nations protect their populations from invasion and ensure that their citizens can fend for themselves and become self-supporting. This often requires that governments collect taxes to provide roads to allow citizens to engage in commerce. The goal is for these citizens to produce the goods needed for sale to other citizens in their country and be able to sell any excess to citizens of neighboring countries.

Governments are also responsible for ensuring that their citizens have clean water and sanitary sewers.  Most governments ensure that citizens can produce electricity, heating, cooling, housing, clothing and transportation for themselves.

Privatizing land ownership is the key to allowing families to accumulate wealth.  Communist countries don’t allow private ownership of land. This includes China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea.  Poor countries don’t allow private ownership of land.  This includes countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America. Some countries allow communal property and use of communal property to plant crops, but this is not the kind of private ownership that allows families to accumulate wealth.

Basic rights of citizenship should include the ability for families to buy and own land, build their homes and use the land to farm, raise livestock, operate a business, generate income, feed, clothe and shelter themselves, sell excess goods for cash and leave their property and businesses to their heirs.

Basic rights do not include the litany of “free stuff” proposed by our Communist Liberal Democrats and RINOs. Government run entities cost too much, run up prices due to subsidies and go bankrupt. US healthcare and education are examples of industries that have been destroyed by government power grabs. The only industries that succeed are those who live by the law of supply and demand, where the consumer controls the prices.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader