The Libertarian Party is working every day to cut your taxes. By contrast, politicians in the two older parties just want more of your money and are busy increasing the size of government.
Case in point: The federal budget has increased by an enormous 33 percent over the past four years under President Bush as he and the Democrats worked in gleeful, bipartisan harmony to expand government.
Meanwhile, Libertarians around the country were working to shrink government and let you keep more of your money. Here's how we saved taxpayers an astronomical $2.2 billion in 2004:
- Santa Clara County, California Libertarians helped crush four separate tax hike measures, totaling $131 million.
- In Nampa, Idaho, Libertarians persuaded the public to eliminate funding for a sports complex that had soaked residents for $50 million over nine years.
- A $160 million sales tax was torpedoed by Macon, Georgia Libertarians in March.
- In July, Libertarians in Brevard County, Florida, quashed a $463 million tax hike before it even got on the ballot. The previous year the LP had earned its tax-fighting credentials by defeating an even larger school tax hike. So the moment one of the county commissioners dared to propose a new tax hike, the LP mounted a furious fax, phone and e-mail campaign -- prompting other commissioners to refuse to bring his plan to a vote!
- In February, the Oregon LP led the charge on an initiative to repeal a $1.2 billion tax hike that had been imposed by Democrats and Republicans in the state legislature. In the process, the LP earned saturation media coverage and burnished their reputation as the “taxpayer’s best friend” in Oregon.
- Santa Barbara Libertarians helped defeat a $98 million school bond measure in March.
- The Hamilton County, Tennessee, LP beat back a $33 million property tax hike in July.
- And in December, Libertarians in Tulsa County, Oklahoma went door-to-door in a successful effort to defeat four separate bond issues totaling $94 million.
That’s $2.2 billion that politicians won’t be able to spend in 2005, thanks to Libertarians!
