Conservative principles
Trust the Constitution.
Laws make freedom possible. A law is a regulation promulgated by a competent authority to protect freedom, not to restrict freedom. The Constitution is the competent authority for law now 200 years. Judges who anoint themselves to make law are here today only. I will support only those who respect the Constitution as written by the authors of the Federalist Papers.
Insist on freedom.
Freedom is the right to make a choice based on your preferences for behavior. Social programs all undermine the need to work, to marry, to plan, and to learn turn adults into greedy infants. Worse, such programs tell people how to live — how to eat, how to love, how to think, and how to believe. I support abolishing all federal government programs that tell people how to behave, so that people have to make their own decisions.
Reduce government.
Bureaucracy is an iron cage, in which employees have one thought: "I must displease no one in order to keep my job." Years in government taught me that bureaucracy is leashing system in which officials take no risks. But, any government program makes everyone — not just the employees — a robot of government. I support programs for fire, police, waste management, and absolutely necessary concrete local services only. I support reducing the government budget by 2 percent per year, every year and abolishing all but the most critical services.
Encourage capitalism.
Capitalism means investing to sell something. We are said now to have a "service economy," which means that now 60 percent of Americans work for government, education, health, and food services. Add this up, and everybody works for the government. Is that capitalism? All government enterprises operate at colossal loss, print money to cover up the loss, and raise your taxes to pay for creating more loss. I support privatizing every present government enterprise — so that people have to provide "public services" both effectively and efficiently or go under.
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