For Immediate Release Friday, April 3, 2009 WASHINGTON – Libertarian National Committee (LNC) Chair William Redpath released the following statement Friday concerning the passage of a $3.5 trillion budget by Congress last night: ‘Yesterday’s passage of a $3.5 trillion budget, stuffed full of wasteful and unconstitutional spending and funded by prosperity-killing tax hikes and deficits, […]
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Austin Petersen named Director of Outreach & Affiliate Relations
Statement by Admiral Michael Colley (Board member and Chair of the Employment Policy and Compensation Committee) and Robert Kraus (Acting ED) naming Volunteer Coordinator Austin Petersen the new "Director of Outreach and Affiliate Relations:
Bill would give Obama administration absolute power to dictate private sector pay
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) is sponsor of the "Pay for Performance Act," a bill that gives the Treasury Secretary absolute power to define what constitute "excessive compensation" to every employee of a private company with shares owned by the government, which it may then confiscate. Somewhere Hugo Chavez is kicking himself for not thinking of […]
DC budget plan: Get inmates out of prison, in to “Sesame Street Live?”
Faced with a declining budget for FY 2010, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty has a last-ditch plan to find $4.4 million in savings — releasing as much as 80 percent of DC’s prison inmates. Fenty still plans, however, to spend $4 million on an "Office of Community Affairs" so residents can "engage the District’s diverse communities […]
Indianapolis Libertarians blast GOP-sponsored tax hikes, bailouts
For Immediate Release Thursday, April 2, 2009 INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Senator Luke Kenley (R) and Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard (R) presented the State’s plan to bail out the Indianapolis Capital Improvement Board (CIB) today. Instead of asking the users of CIB properties in Indianapolis to step up and pay their fair share first, lawmakers will […]
Barr: Gun control crowd pushes radical goal
In his weekly column for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Congressman Bob Barr, the 2008 Libertarian presidential nominee, exposes how the Obama administration and Congress are violating the Second Amendment and quietly stripping Americans of their most basic of human rights. You may read the entire article online at the Journal-Constitution. Barr writes, in part:
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Want a sign with your name on it?
Want a sign with your name on it? Then run for office as a Libertarian! With both Republicans and Democrats hiking taxes, bloating spending and stripping rights in state legislatures and local governments, the need for Libertarians is greater now more than ever. There is still time to file for state legislative races in Virginia and New Jersey, […]
P&G CEO: New Obama tax grab destroys American jobs
Barack Obama’s plans to immediately grab a chunk of income earned overseas will destroy American jobs and make it harder for employers to compete with foreign businesses, Proctor and Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley says in Sunday’s Cincinnati Enquirer. Currently, companies are allowed to defer payment on foreign income until the funds are brought back into […]
Record number of voters back LP tax approach
For Immediate Release Monday, March 30, 2009 Rasmussen poll finds highest-ever number believe tax cuts spur growth WASHINGTON – A record number of voters agree with the Libertarian Party that tax cuts would help spur economic growth, America’s third-largest party notes Monday. A Rasmussen Reports poll released March 26 finds 63 percent of all voters […]
Should bailed-out homeowners pay back THEIR tax-funded windfall, too?
Stan Liebowitz, Research Fellow at The Independent Institute, thinks so. He writes in the March 17 Investors Business Daily (linked from The Independent Institute:) The U.S. public is outraged at the $165 million in bonuses paid to employees of insurance giant American International Group after AIG received billions in government bailout funds—and Washington is looking […]
Did so-called “universal health care” kill actress?
Cody Williams, a Chicago physician, writes in today’s New York Post how Obama-style socialized medicine may have played a role in the death of actress Natasha Richardson, who died last week in Canada from a simple injury easily treatable in the United States. Williams writes, in part: Canadian health care de-emphasizes widespread dissemination of technology […]