https://www.maidmentformissouri.com/issues daily 0.75 2022-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62412c9989d1a62f9744aae0/d29c842c-054f-404c-b9ee-62385257d07a/Salute.jpg Issues - OUR VALUES Limited government Keep your money Peace and prosperity accountability https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62412c9989d1a62f9744aae0/f0a25b0a-0569-4abb-b6fa-d5f82e51b41a/constitution_1_of_4_630.jpg Issues - Limited government The federal government intrudes into every part of our lives, violating the Constitution along the way. Eliminate Federal departments which have no Constitutional basis to exist starting with Education, Commerce, and Homeland Security. Protect free speech and stop harassing people who just want to hold government accountable. Extend our right to keep and bear arms so we can protect ourselves and our other rights. End the Surveillance State of the Patriot Act which has never caught a terrorist. Force Congress to approve regulations before they come into effect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62412c9989d1a62f9744aae0/6da0c105-2c6e-47ce-b062-3698769ac4f4/Forever_War.jpg Issues - Peace And Prosperity Bring our troops home so we can have peaceful and productive relationships. In his classic novel, 1984, George Orwell described the war Oceania was fighting. He wrote, “The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.” Today libertarians call it the Forever War. Except it is not fiction. The United States has had a permanent presence in the Middle East since before I was born. Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria—and no end in sight. It took just four years to defeat the two most powerful nations on earth and that was 80 years ago. If we meant to win, surely we could have done it in by now. Our continued presence in the region only causes more anger and grief, it is time to let someone else handle the problem. We can focus our efforts on maintaining a robust national defense, trading peacefully with others so we can all become more prosperous. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62412c9989d1a62f9744aae0/189c05fa-ef2a-4179-b9a1-782fd68e544c/1280px-Home_of_the_Internal_Revenue_Service.jpg Issues - KEEP your money taxation is theft. this is not just a hashtag, it is a fact. You work hard for your money and no one has any business saying you should have to give it up. Before the income tax America had roads, schools, police, courts, and a competent military. The country was also the fastest growing, most prosperous nation in the world. Taxes simply take money away from those who produce and give it to those who do not. Over the last century our government has proven that markets are far more efficient means of spreading wealth than the central planning of bureaucrats. Whether its the income tax or the Federal Reserve printing money, the politicians are destroying your ability to live for yourself. It is time for that to end. Let us make this building, IRS headquarters, unimportant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62412c9989d1a62f9744aae0/f91c3bce-9a06-46b0-a609-d80d059ee3cf/Waste.png Issues - Accountability waste is a fact of life in D.C. A significant part of our national debt is from foolishly spent money. Whether it is Covid relief fraud which never should have been appropriated or the military spending billions of dollars to force unproven technology into their latest wonder weapon, the bureaucrats in Washington are incapable of handling our money. Report after report of ludicrous spending items continue to come out of the massive spending bills with thousands of pages, pushed through Congress in just days. Too often, Congress and the President just want to be seen doing something, regardless of the consequences. That is how you end up more than $30 Trillion in debt, financed to the point where our grandchildren will be paying, decades from now, for our way of life today. It does not work, if it did we would not need a new stimulus bill every few months. 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You have the right to: Complain to your school board without being investigated by the police. Record your interactions with public officials. Practice your religion and assemble peaceably (meet for church, even during Covid). Defend yourself from those who would seek to hurt you (all gun laws are infringements). Be secure in your papers and communications (end Patriot Act spying on Americans). Be secure in your home (end the Community Caretaking exception; support Castle Doctrine). Sue the police when they violate your rights (end qualified immunity). Keep what you own (end Civil Asset Forfeiture; eminent domain in extreme cases only). Due process (no “Red Flag” laws; no limiting of anyone’s liberties without criminal conviction). Know the law—they should be clear and established regulations should not be changed on the whim of the next President. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62412c9989d1a62f9744aae0/e238fbac-e4b8-4350-88d3-a40870187c9c/688px-USDnotes.png General 4 - Your money does not belong to the government You work hard for your money. You gave up your time, intelligence, and sweat to earn it. That money literally represents a portion of your life and no one should be able to take it from you, even if they vote on it. End the Income Tax, it is incompatible with the Bill of Rights. The government should not be able to take what you earned without due process, simply because they cannot maintain a budget. I put this in the Bill of Rights section above but it is worth repeating: Civil Asset Forfeiture cannot be allowed to continue. Most victims of this practice only have enough taken that it will be more expensive to get their property back than it is worth. Forfeiture is literally what the British Navy did to John Hancock. The property you buy with your money is also yours. The government should not be able to take it away by changing regulations. Whether guns, gas powered cars, or whatever is next on the looter agenda, your property is yours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62412c9989d1a62f9744aae0/496cbec3-98ce-425c-a79b-4c755de3c917/449px-US_annual_federal_outlays_1901_to_2006_titles.svg.png General 4 - government spending it out of control Government creates problems, then they saddle our grandchildren with debt to pay for solutions to the problems government created. The National Debt triples in size about every ten years. At this rate, debt will reach $100 trillion some time before 2050. That’s a bill that our children and grandchildren are going to have to pay. To pay for all of this, money is printed by the Federal Reserve. Really, printing is no longer necessary, the money is just lent out digitally. Massive increases makes dollars less valuable, so that when you save for your children’s college fund, by the time they are ready, the value is less than when you put it in there. Government creates this problem. By picking winners and losers to hand out money to. By providing lucrative contracts to the friends of bureaucrats. By trying to make people live the way they want us to, whether that way works for us or not. They create a bubble, it bursts, and they pay us off with future dollars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62412c9989d1a62f9744aae0/2e46300d-a762-45be-a491-66d8a48eb0af/450px-Code_of_Federal_Regulations_Mid-Manhattan_Library.jpg General 4 - regulations are not laws Laws are enacted by Congress and made law by approval of the President, not the other way around. The Code of Federal Regulations, the list of regulations created by bureaucrats, is over 180,000 pages long. That’s incomprehensible. Estimates are that the average American commits 3 crimes a day. That was over 10 years ago, and the list of regulations has only grown. Whenever a President dislikes a law they just change the regulations surrounding them. The lawyers make up new wording they think they can get past the judges. This type of activity has to stop. How can you live your life if the law can just change drastically from one day to the next? All regulations should have to be approved by Congress before they can have the force of law. That makes sure that the regulation says what Congress intended. Is that cumbersome? Does that make Congress’ job harder? Yes, and that’s how it should be. All gun laws and regulations infringe on the Second Amendment. https://www.maidmentformissouri.com/donate daily 0.75 2022-05-11