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- Taxes -- BREAK FREE
- Libertarian Party
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- THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY REPRESENTS YOU
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- The Libertarian Party is working every day to cut your taxes. All other
- parties, the professional politicians, have no plan but to take more of your
- money and increase the size of government.
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- Since the turn of the 20th Century, the federal government has exploded in
- size. No subject is free from Congressional meddling. Even under the
- "conservative" Republican President Reagan, in eight years the cost of
- running the U.S. government doubled. We cannot expect tax cuts from the
- professional politicians.
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- It doesn't have to be that way. With less government and lower taxes, you
- could keep more of what you earn. You could plan, for yourself and your
- family, and carry out your plans. You could be charitable and compassionate
- your own way, with others of like mind, helping those you choose. You could
- live free. If only you didn't have to worry about higher taxes, red tape,
- audits and IRS harassment.
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- HAVE WE ALWAYS HAD AN INCOME TAX?
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- We had no federal income tax before 1914. Americans prospered as no
- people on earth ever before. The U.S. government didn't try to police the
- entire world or play nanny to everyone from cradle to grave. People expected
- to take responsibility for themselves, their families and their communities.
- That's how the founders of American thought it should be. And it worked. It
- can again.
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- HOW COULD WE CUT THE INCOME TAX?
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- Government isn't magic. It's just people, like you and me. Think of it
- as a huge conglomerate of service businesses, like a much larger General
- Motors or IBM. The federal government is in the business of national
- defense, roads, trains, dams, power plants, banking, savings and loans,
- charity, housing, medicine, insurance, oil, coal, parks, ranching, mail,
- farming, shipping and many others, most not authorized by our Constitution.
- Virtually every service provided by government is also provided by private
- business better and cheaper.
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- Must these services be provided by government or be paid for by taxes?
- No, not necessarily.
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- * Privatize; Cut Taxes
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- Today, all over the world, governments are selling airlines, power plants,
- housing, manufacturing plants and other properties to private owners. Where
- inefficient bureaucracy lost money (tax dollars), private owners make
- profits. THE LESS GOVERNMENT DOES, THE LOWER YOUR TAXES.
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- * Defend America; Cut Taxes
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- Military expenses are up to $315 billion a year. About two thirds of this
- is spent overseas to defend wealthy countries like West Germany and Japan.
- Take them off military welfare. We can defend America better and save $150
- billion a year in taxes.
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- * End Foreign Aid; Cut Taxes
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- Most foreign aid doesn't reach people in need. It's stolen by corrupt
- officials and winds up in Swiss bank accounts. The U.S. government gives
- your tax dollars to socialist governments so they can repay loans to big U.S.
- banks.
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- * End Business Subsidies; Cut Taxes
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- No one has the right to cover his losses at taxpayer expense. The federal
- government has bailed out railroads, shipping companies, banks and other
- businesses with your tax dollars. This must stop! We can save $25 billion
- a year just by ending "farm programs" which pay farmers not to grow food or
- to subsidize food sales to foreigners.
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- * Improve Welfare; Cut Taxes
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- The bulk of your welfare tax dollars pays the handsome salaries of
- well-educated welfare workers. The poor get little from government welfare
- except meagre handouts and invasions of privacy. Get government out of the
- charity business and end the welfare plantation. Private charities and
- groups do a better job helping the truly needy. With a big cut in taxes, we
- can all be more compassionate more effectively, and put welfare victims back
- to work.
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- * Less Government = Real Tax Cuts
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- Can we cut taxes? Sure. By cutting the size and activity of government.
- We must constantly pressure the politicians to do that, just as the people
- pressured Congress to repeal its "automatic" salary increase. That's what
- the Libertarian Party is doing. All the time.
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- HOW MUCH CAN WE CUT TAXES?
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- Libertarians believe government's role must be limited to protecting our
- lives, rights and property. The federal government should defend us from
- attack by foreigners and protect our constitutional rights. A federal
- government which did only those two things, could do them well and at a
- fraction of what government costs now.
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- Libertarians believe people do best when they deal with each other
- peacefully and honestly, with mutual respect. Taxation is wrong because it
- involves some people (government) using violence, or the threat of it, to
- take your earnings from you.
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- Libertarians want to replace violence in politics with peaceful, honest
- cooperation. We want proper government functions paid for voluntarily rather
- than by taxation. No one knows how far we can go toward that goal. But, it
- is the right goal for anyone who wants to live in a sane and humane society.
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- TIME FOR ACTION
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- If you agree that action is needed now to control the politicians, to
- begin real slashing of government spending and taxes, then please call or
- write to request additional information or to join the Libertarian Party:
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- 800-682-1776 Libertarian Party
- 202-543-1988 1528 Pennsylvania Avenue SE
- Washington, DC 20003
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