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LNC Chair statement on FY10 budget passage

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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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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Promote Liberty! Tune in to “Freedom Watch,” every Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. on FoxNews.com!

Fox News Channel’s Judge Andrew Napolitano hosts “Freedom Watch” every Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. ET, on FoxNews.com’s “Strategy Room.” It’s an online libertarian program with libertarian hosts and guests streamed live every Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. Eastern, and your online support can help put Judge Napolitano’s show on television on the Fox News Channel! 

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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