AFR Mission Statement
Why We Need to Form a Third Political
Party
to Challenge the Democrats and Republicans
In view of the economic instability and relentless government growth
that we are now experiencing in America, it should be alarmingly
clear that we as a people have lost our compass of freedom and sanity.
For the past 40 years, political conservatives have put their trust
in the Republican Party to bring about a reduction of government
in Washington and a restoration of the constitutional principles
that the Founding Fathers established.
Every election year, Republicans speak the language of freedom on
the campaign trail, but after taking office, they do just what the
liberals do -- they bring us more taxes, more inflation, more bureaucracies,
more wars, and less freedom.
We at AFR believe there is only one hope for meaningful reform.
Americans must challenge this egregious irresponsibility with a third
political party. But it must be a REAL THIRD PARTY that will actually
pose a threat to the Demopublicans' monopolistic rule.
This is the most crucial issue of our time, and we must face up
to it. We have a runaway Federal Government in Washington, and we
must figure out how to stop its tyrannical growth. The way to do
this is to grasp the cause and effect process involved. One of the
cardinal laws of all intellectual and scientific progress is that
we must always go to the root causes of our problems if we
want to solve those problems.
If we are to find the root causes of why we suffer a tyrannical
government in Washington, we must go back to 1913. For it was in
that fateful year that the Federal Reserve System and the progressive
income tax were enacted into law.
These two institutions ushered in the two major evils of modern
day politics, which are: fiat money and confiscatory taxation.
It is these two evils that have destroyed the idea of limited government
that the Founding Fathers gave to us.
Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 and Richard Nixon in 1971 were the architects
of the first evil. When they removed gold backing from the dollar,
they gave the Federal Reserve the power to establish a "fiat paper
money system." This gave the Federal Reserve the ability to then
inflate the currency at will, which gave Washington the capacity
to secretly rob Americans of their wealth through currency depreciation.
The second evil of 1913, the "progressive income tax," was equally
as dangerous. It gave to our government the ability to arbitrarily
seize the earnings of productive Americans to buy voter support from
vast hordes of special interest groups.
Herein lies the death knell of the American republic. With the ability
to arbitrarily print paper money and confiscate our incomes, the
Federal Government has been able to grow exponentially over the past
century.
If we are to stop this travesty of tyrannization over our lives,
we must go to the root causes of such tyranny. We must challenge
these two policies of "fiat money" and "progressive taxation," for
they are what give the Federal Government its power to grow unabated.
Educating the populace, however, about the Fed and the income tax
through conventional means is well nigh impossible today because "big
government" ideology dominates our schools and our media. So we need
to circumvent this statist bias and go directly to the people --
to the 100 million voters that determine what kind of government
we are to have.
We at AFR submit that the way to quickly reach 100 million voters
is through the formation of a third political party. Let's
call it the FREE AMERICAN PARTY. But it cannot be just another
conventional third party that we see plodding along today (like the
Libertarian Party or the Constitution Party) getting 1% of the vote
every election year. It must be a REAL third party that can actually
stop the growth of the Federal Government.
So keep in mind that our two goals are to explain to 100 million
American voters why we must check the dangerous power of the Federal
Reserve and why we must end the injustice of the progressive income
tax.
In other words, we must overcome the statist bias of our schools
and our media in a way that will sensationalize our message and galvanize
tens of millions of Americans. We must use a third political party
as a promotional vehicle for our cause.
In order to do this, we must break the monopoly that Demopublicans
have over the modern political scene. This will require the adoption
of two crucial, fundamental political reforms. It is what we at AFR
call the "Two Pillars Strategy."
Ending the dictatorial power of the Federal Reserve and abolishing
the progressive income tax are, of course, goals that cannot be achieved
overnight. But there are two essential first steps that can be promoted
through a political campaign, that would stop the alarming growth
of the Federal Government immediately and allow us to begin the reduction
process.
These two steps are the enactment of an "honest money" system and
an "equal rate tax" system. These are the two pillars upon which
we can build a powerful third political party to challenge the Washington
establishment.
Pillar # 1 -- An Honest Monetary System.
What exactly do we mean by an "honest" money system? We mean a system
that does not steal our savings every year through currency debasement.
It is accepted by all reputable economists today that central bank
expansion of the money supply at a faster rate than the economy's
production of goods and services is growing results in price inflation.
In other words, if goods and services are growing at 3% a year and
the government is expanding the money supply at 8% per year, then
we will have a 5% inflation rate for that year. This is currency
debasement, or simply stealing from the people.
For example, if the government inflates the money supply by 5% during
the year, it means that our money will be worth 5% less at year's
end. A diligent saver with $100,000 in the bank now has only $95,000
worth of buying power. The Federal Government, however, has $5,000
extra in buying power because it printed the new money out of thin
air.
Multiply this times millions of savers in America and we're talking
about hundreds of billions of dollars that are being stolen from
the people every year by the Federal Government.
This is obviously not honest. An "honest monetary system" is one
that expands the money supply no faster than the growth of goods
and services. This way there is no currency debasement and no loss
of buying power for our savings.
In light of this, we need to ask ourselves what type of money can
a society possibly have when its government bankers can simply print
that money at will? What level of stability will there be for the
prices of that society and for the savings of its people?
History clearly teaches us that no country can remain stable and
prosperous if it allows its money supply to be controlled by government
bureaucrats and bankers. The temptation is simply too great for such
bureaucrats to promote excessive expansion of the money supply in
order to create an illusion of prosperity so that the electorate
will continue to reward them with more power.
Ever since 1936, the Federal Reserve's monetary policy under both
Republican and Democratic administrations has always been to pump
more credit (in other words, more debt) into the system --
because according to John Maynard Keynes and his academic progeny,
this is the only way to maintain a prosperous economy.
In other words, the Federal Reserve must be allowed to expand credit
to whatever level it thinks desirable, or we won't be able to maintain
sufficient economic growth. But this is totally false. America's
economic growth during the 19th century was spectacular, and there
was no Federal Reserve pumping paper money and credit into the system
at all.
For example as we see in the above chart, the Consumer Price Index
(CPI) actually decreased by 40% between the years 1800 and
1913. But from 1913 to the present day, the CPI has increased
by 1,850%.
This is because ever since 1913 the money supply has been created
by Federal Reserve bureaucrats at a faster rate than the production
of goods and services. This is why we have price inflation, and this
is how our money is being stolen from us by the government. False
Keynesian economics dominates our politicians in both the Democratic
and Republican parties.
The Keynesian monetary philosophy of constantly increasing paper
money and credit is what led to the runaway inflation of the 1970s,
to the wild bubble economy of the past 15 years, and to the monster
economic / debt crisis now upon us. What our economy is experiencing
is the result of all that past credit inflation, i.e., debt creation.
We now have to go through a lengthy recession and purge this excess
debt brought about by our government in Washington. This is the only
way we can restore economic health.
But there is a giant problem. Unless this purging of debt is accompanied
by genuine monetary reform, we as a country are doomed to merely
repeating the Keynesian fallacies of credit inflation. We are doomed
to an ever-increasing dictatorial government that steals our savings
and corrupts our society. The only way to eliminate such corruption
is to establish a monetary standard other than the whims of federal
bankers and bureaucrats. Throughout history that standard has always
been gold.
Restoration of a gold standard, however, will require revolutionary
thinking in the field of monetary theory and will require many years
to educate the public as to its necessity.
So the question we have to ask is this: Could a 51% majority of
voters be motivated to accept gold as money and pass its implementation
into law? No they couldn't; not at this time in history. But our
reform pillar of "honest money" doesn't need to establish gold money
right away in order to be effective. It can be structured to temporarily
bypass gold so as to make the reform acceptable to the people.
For example, as a preliminary step to actually establishing a gold-backed
dollar, the Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman's 4% auto-expansion
plan should be enacted. His plan is to computerize the increase
of the money supply at 4% annually -- in other words to make monetary
expansion automatic and totally remove it from the arbitrary hands
of Federal Reserve bureaucrats. This would allow us to check the
excessive power of the Fed until the American people can be educated
as to the necessity of restoring a sound gold-backed money (which
may take several decades).
The Friedman plan suffers from some flaws (e.g., the money supply
is difficult to define precisely -- do we use M1, M2, M3? And the
Fed cannot control "velocity" of money, which is just as important
as "quantity" in determining price rises). So the Friedman plan
would be only a temporary measure, implemented to temper the
inordinate power of the Fed until the people could be persuaded to
enact a true restoration plan for gold backed money.
Why the Friedman plan is important is it would circumvent the media's
wall of resistance regarding gold. By approaching monetary reform
with this first step, we can get the issue of inflation and its control
into public discussion without being smeared by the statists as being "worshipers
of a barbarous relic wishing to go back to the 19th century." Actual
restoration of a gold standard would come later when the people show
they are ready.
The economic / debt crisis that is now descending upon all the world's
industrial nations is going to surely bring a redesigned global monetary
system. Bretton Woods II (the chaotic and irresponsible fiat-money-floating-exchange-rate
system that Richard Nixon launched in 1971) must be replaced; that
much is obvious. What kind of global system it will be is anyone's
guess. But whatever system comes into being, the need for an auto-expansion
plan for America's Fed does not change. It is still vitally necessary
if we are to gain control over our government. If we would enact
such a policy, it would make our currency the strongest among all
nations and bring investment capital from around the world into our
economy. Our sputtering economic engines would be recharged in a
major way.
Thus the first pillar of the Free American Party is to enact an "honest
money system" for America that prohibits Federal Reserve bureaucrats
from expanding the money supply at will. Milton Friedman's 4% auto-expansion
plan is an excellent first step to ultimately getting gold back into
the dollar.
This will end the Federal Government's ability to steal 4%-12% of
our savings every year through currency debasement. The former figure
is what the BLS reports, while the latter is what economist John
Williams of www.shadowstats.com says is the true inflation
rate if we were to use the more honest accounting principles to figure
the CPI that we used prior to 1980, which is the SGS Alternate Consumer
Price Measure. In other words, real inflation is not 3%-4%. It is
actually 10%-12%. Government's use of what is called "hedonic calculation" has
allowed it to bamboozle the people into accepting the lower, benign,
but false figures.
Thus enactment of the Friedman "auto-expansion plan" for the Fed
will bring an end to the relentless price inflation with which we
are plagued. As a result, everyone's standard of living will be increased
by 10%-12% annually.
Pillar #2 -- An Equal Rate Tax
The fundamental principle of the Declaration of Independence, which
undergirds our political-legal systems in this country, is that all
citizens are to possess equality under the law. Our whole
concept of rights is based upon them being equal for all citizens
of the Republic.
In 1913, however, there took place a most shameful default on this
concept of "equal rights under the law" when our Supreme Court judges
allowed a progressive income tax to be enacted by Congress, despite
the fact that a progressive rate tax is clearly unconstitutional.
The reason why a progressive rate tax is unconstitutional in America
is because different classes of society are assessed different
rates under such a system. This denies American citizens an equal
right to the disposal of their property (in other words, their income).
And thus it denies them equal protection under the laws of the land.
It is contrary to everything for which America stands.
As the renowned Scottish economist J.R. McCulloch stated over 150
years ago, "The moment you abandon the cardinal principle of extracting
from all individuals the same proportion of their income or
of their property, you are at sea without a rudder or compass, and
there is no amount of injustice or folly you may not commit."
Under our progressive tax system, the blindfolded Goddess of Justice
has been allowed to peek. "Tell me first who you are and what you
earn," she says, "then I will tell you how the tax laws apply to
you." This is privilege and arbitrary law, the harbingers of every
tyranny throughout history.
This then is the moral and philosophical case for abolishing the
progressive income tax. It is simply unjust, unconstitutional, illegal,
and dictatorial. But in addition to the philosophical case, there
is also a very powerful practical reason why ending this tax is so
important.
This is because if we end progressive tax rates, there would no
longer be any incentive for voters to try and gain their life's status
by relentlessly increasing government spending, in other words, by
redistributing wealth from the pockets of their neighbors.
Most Americans do not understand this, but the major cause of explosive
government spending is our use of progressive tax rates to redistribute
wealth. This is because the progressive income tax permits large
constituencies of voters to pay zero taxes and equally large
constituencies to pay next to zero taxes. Thus, a progressive
income tax spawns a "something for nothing" voter mindset that dominates
all elections.
For example as we see in the chart below, the upper 50% of income
earners in America pay 96.03% of the taxes, while the lower 50% of
income earners pay only 3.97% of the taxes. These are IRS statistics.
The bottom quadrant pays zero taxes.
Thus we have a system where the bottom 50% of American voters get
their government services for free or next to free. Well,
what happens to desire for services when we get them for free? To
use economic terminology, we have created "infinite demand" for those
services, have we not? If people get something for free and they
like that something, then they want all they can get of it. That
is just human nature.
So this is the root of the problem. Our tax system has created "infinite
demand" for government growth -- because it exempts 50% of the
American people from meaningful payment of taxes.
Overcoming this "infinite demand" for government spending will be
impossible until we genuinely reform the tax system and eliminate
its something for nothing aspect. This means ending all deductions,
all exemptions, all privileges. Period. This will require the adoption
of a simple equal rate income tax (in other words, a genuine
flat tax) that does not convey favors or exemptions to anybody.
Since voters would then have to pay for all government subsidies
and pork barrel programs proportionately out of their own pockets,
they would lose their overwhelming desire to have such subsidies
and programs. They would begin to favor politicians who advocate reduction of
government instead of its constant expansion -- because this
is the only way they could get their own taxes reduced and more freedom
into their lives.
But as long as voters pay zero taxes or next to zero taxes,
they will continue to favor politicians who offer more programs and
more pork every November at election time. An "equal rate tax" is
the only way to end the automatic expansion of government.
In other words, no one is to get special privileges. All citizens
must contribute to the system rather than leeching from the system.
Under a 10% flat tax, if a man earns $100,000 annually, he would
pay $10,000 to fund the government. If he earns $8,000 annually,
he would pay $800. This way everyone (no matter how small their contribution)
has a stake in being a responsible citizen and voting for the common
good instead of trying to get something for nothing by taking money
from his neighbor.
Naturally there will be major opposition to such a flat tax without
exemptions because it will supposedly place an added burden upon
lower income earners who presently pay zero taxes. But this is not
true. Let's investigate our 10% equal rate tax and see just what
kind of an effect it will have on the lives of low income earners.
What we will discover is that it will NOT impose a net burden on
them when all things are considered. In fact it will actually increase
their standard of living because of the explosion of economic
productivity that will accompany its enactment.
What needs to be done is to take Steve Forbes' simplified flat tax
of 17% and truly flatten it by eliminating all exemptions instead
of increasingthem as he does -- in other words, make it a proportional
tax applicable to everyone, which will allow us to drop the rate
to 10%.
Because of its overall simplicity, such a flat tax will be a tremendous
boon to all businesses and corporations, which will be one of several
factors that will help make it an actual benefit to low income earners.
For example, because of its simplicity it will save American industry
billions of dollars annually in compliance costs that go toward
record keeping, accountants, tax lawyers, economists, lobbyists,
audits, appeals, litigation, collection, disincentives, lost opportunities,
avoidance, etc.
Major corporations devote entire floors in their headquarters with
armies of accountants, tax specialists and lawyers working around
the clock, 52 weeks a year, to keep them compliant with the monstrous
and convoluted burden of our present 17,000 page income tax code.
Many economic studies, such as James L. Payne's Costly Returns,
have been done on this burden of compliance costs to society, and
the results in the Payne study are 24% of tax revenue generated.
In addition, there are large disincentive costs accompanying the
income tax which amount to 33% of revenue generated, plus other miscellaneous
costs of 8%, for a total cost to society of 65%. This means that
when we as a nation paid $1.9 trillion in income taxes in 2007, we
were really paying $3.1 trillion because there was a 65% "overhead" cost
of $1.2 trillion added on to the bill.
The portion of this $1.2 trillion that was paid by businesses and
corporations (55.7%) was naturally passed on to consumers in higher
costs of goods and services. Prominent tax reform groups, such as
Americans for Fair Taxation estimate that consumers must pay 3% extra
every year for goods and services because of the compliance cost
burden of the income tax for businesses. When we add in Payne's disincentive
cost burden, the total cost figure rises to 5%.
By going to a radically simplified flat tax, all businesses and
corporations will be able to cut this 5% compliance / disincentive
cost burden by more than half (which all flat tax studies like Forbes
and Hall-Rabushka demonstrate). This means that businesses and corporations
will be able to pass on a savings of about 3% or more in their cost
of goods and services to American consumers. This will reduce the
overall bite of the equal rate tax on low income earners from 10%
to 7%.
In addition, because the "equal rate tax" eliminates all the compliance
/ disincentive cost burdens to businesses and simplifies their existence
in a major way, there will take place a tremendous unleashing of
the "entrepreneurial function" in the economy. Capital investment
will increase substantially. This will restore our presently stagnant
real wage growth to the historical average of 3%, which will reduce
the bite of the equal rate tax on low income earners still further
to 4%. (Compliance / disincentive cost saving + real wage growth
saving = 6%, subtracted from the 10% equal rate tax = 4%.)
To give the reader some corroborating specifics here, let's look
at the history of real wage growth. According to the U.S. Department
of Commerce, for the past 35 years (from 1973-2007), real wages have
been totally stagnant in America. They grew less than 1% during this
time. Yet between the years 1955-1972, real wages increased 63%,
or 3% compounded annually.
The reason for this stagnation is that the year 1972 brought us
a quantum leap in the Great Inflationary Welfare Society because
Nixon launched unlimited fiat money inflation by taking us totally
off the gold standard. This, combined with progressive taxation,
led to an exponential expansion of FDR's and LBJ's welfare programs
via all succeeding Presidents. This is why income growth for the
workingman has become non-existent. As the state and its onerous
tax system and currency debasement policies grow, robust capital
accumulation and entrepreneurial expansion in the marketplace decrease.
It is capital accumulation and entrepreneurial expansion that lead
to a steady rise in real wages on an annual basis.
With the enactment of our highly simplified "equal rate tax" (along
with the Friedman "auto-expansion plan" for the Fed), capital accumulation
and entrepreneurial expansion will take off again in a big way. We
will be able to restore our annual growth in real wages of 3%, which
we had in the years prior to 1972.
The same goes for new job creation. Increased entrepreneurial activity
will accelerate new job growth greatly. And best of all, the simplified "equal
rate tax" will bring many of our corporations back to America from
the offshore havens they have migrated to over the past 30 years.
This will accelerate new job creation even faster, which will assure
a continuation of real wage growth for lower income earners.
In addition because of our enactment of Friedman's "auto-expansion
plan" for the Fed, we will be able to eliminate the 10%-12% inflationary
burden that robs us all of our earnings every year. This will increase
everyone's standard of living by at least 10%.
Thus by eliminating the compliance burden of our progressive income
tax and the inflation burden of the Federal Reserve's arbitrary expansion
of money, there will take place a vibrant explosion in economic growth
throughout America. This will bring about a 16% increase in the standard
of living for low income earners. (A 3% decrease in cost of
goods and services, plus a 3% increase in real wages, plus at least
a 10% decrease in inflation equals a 16% increase). Subtract the
10% "equal rate tax," and we have a 6% net annual increase in the
standard of living for low income earners. Naturally other income
earners will experience a higher increase.
Thus when combined with the monetary reform plan for the Fed, a
10% "equal rate tax" will NOT be a burden on the low income earners
of America. It will, in fact, bring about a demonstrable net increase
of 6% in their standard of living.
Moreover, with enactment of an equal rate tax, everyone's lives
will be so much simpler. We will be able to fill out our tax returns
in 10 minutes every April because record keeping for such a simple
tax is miniscule compared to the 17,000 page monster version we are
chained to at present.
And most importantly because all voters will have to pay
such a simplified tax, it will quickly bring about a serious reduction
of government. Every state in the Union will begin sending Ron Pauls
to Congress instead of Chuck Schumers. As a result the 10% rate can
be gradually lowered. We could have a 5%-7% tax rate within a couple
of decades because no one will continue to vote for all the pork
and privileges if they have to pay for them out of their own pockets.
This is the all-important element in the Two Pillars Strategy, the
linchpin to set in motion the beginning of the end of the Leviathan.
All voters must pay proportionally out of their own pockets for their
government services. No political activism favoring freedom will
ever succeed until this element is set in place.
This policy reform dwarfs all other reforms and must be tackled
before anything else. The reason why all our efforts to reduce government
over the past 40 years have failed is because we are ignoring the
people's built-in predisposition toward automatically increasing
government every election year that comes from progressive tax rates.
This is the fundamental root of our problem, and it cannot be repeated
too often. Our tax system has created "infinite demand" for government
growth because it exempts 50% of the American people from meaningful
payment of taxes!
Until we are willing to face up to and reform this massive flaw
in the system, we are wasting our time trying to reduce government
and restore a free society. It is so disheartening to observe so
many conservatives so assiduously "working to reduce government," while
ignoring the fundamental cause of government growth. Doctors
who ignore root causes in treating a patient's disease are quacks
who fail at medicine. It is no different with pundits and politicians.
They must go to the root cause of the problem if they intend to accomplish
reform that is substantive.
Thus an "equal rate tax" must be proposed, fought for, and implemented
if we are to stop government growth. This is the only way to have
a society of responsible voters. Think what kind of country this
would make us into -- where voters are demanding that Congress phase
out excess spending, where they are willing to back up their demands
by axing any and all legislators who do not do as requested. What
a remarkable turn around this would be. We would have an America
with a relentlessly shrinking government instead of a relentlessly expanding government.
Could such an equal-rate tax win the support of a majority of Americans?
No, at this time, it could not. But as we will soon see, our goal
is not to win 51% of the voters. Our goal is to win only 15% and
qualify for the National TV Election Debates to act as a powerful
counter vision to the insanity of the Demopublicans.
Therefore, our second pillar of reform must be to end the policy
of progressive taxation and its something-for-nothing mindset that
is stultifying our nation. These then are our two paramount goals
-- honest money and equal tax rates! These are the
TWO PILLARS that must be used to challenge the Demopublican establishment.
Building the Free American Party
Thus we build our party upon a "4% auto-expansion plan" for the
Fed, and a "10% equal rate tax" for all citizens. This will increase
everyone's standard of living immensely and immediately. It
will change the political paradigm of America in a powerfully dramatic
way.
Can these Two Pillars be explained to the American voters in large
enough numbers to make a difference? Yes, they can! Imagine, if you
will, a dynamic third party candidate in the debates giving a 30
minute lecture on nationwide TV the night before each debate like
Ross Perot did in 1992. Only this time the lectures are about how "progressive
tax rates" are destroying our country, how "infinite demand" for
government services stems from the progressive tax system, and how
the Fed's irresponsible expansion of the money supply robs us of
10% of our wealth every year. These are the reasons why government
constantly grows. Such lectures would be positively electrifying.
Here lies the solution to our runaway government in America: We
must use a third political party and the national TV election debates
to educate American voters about the twin evils of fiat money and progressive
tax rates. Only through the abolishment of these twin evils can
we restore a responsible electorate and send responsible politicians
to Washington.
If a third party wishes to become viable, it must offer radical
enough change to separate itself from the Demopublicans, but not
so radical that it becomes marginalized like the Libertarians. This,
the Two Pillars Strategy accomplishes.
If the Free American Party would promote the Two Pillars and run
a candidate with name recognition, it could easily gain 15% (and
probably 20%) in the polls, which would qualify it for the national
TV election debates every year. It would then have a national podium
to disseminate its ideas out to 100 million voters, which would scare
the living daylights out of the Demopublicans in Washington.
As a result, it wouldn't be too long before Demopublicans would
be offering their own "honest money plan" and their own "equal rate
tax." And if they didn't, the nation's voters would increase their
support every year for the Free American Party until either the Demopublicans
relented and enacted the two pillars into law themselves, or the
Free American Party achieved parity with the Demopublicans and actually
won on election day.
Either way, the Free American Party would win because its two pillars
would be implemented. With implementation of the two pillars, big
government would die, and freedom would be reborn.
Thus a third party does not have to win the White House immediately
to win its cause! But it does have to gain entrance into the National
TV Election Debates that take place every election year in September
and October. They are televised on the major networks to 60-70 million
voters who then spread the opinions and policy recommendations gleaned
from the candidates performances to their friends and neighbors at
office water coolers, bar hangouts and church gatherings in the ensuing
weeks. In this way, probably as many as 100 million voters are reached.
The debates are thus of crucial importance, for they legitimize
a candidate and his party in the people's eyes. They are absolutely
essential to participate in if a third party is to have a chance
to change the role of government in America.
The main reason why statism is growing relentlessly in our country
today is because there is no counter vision being effectively presented
to the voters at election time. What is needed is to present the
people with a choice between big government and small government
in a way that does not sound utopian. This has never been done in
the 48 year history of the debates.
Therefore the all-important goal is to get 15% in the polls and
gain admission into the National TV Election Debates, which will
give the Free American Party access to 100 million voters with its
powerful pillars of monetary and tax reform.
The freedom movement is now a major philosophical force in America,
and it needs to create an effective political party to speak for
it.
But this is most important! The Free American Party cannot threaten
voters with the dissolution of the welfare state. It cannot sound
like Harry Browne. Its message must simply be that we have to check
the explosive growth of government in order to bring back sanity
to our country, and that this will require policies of "honest money" and "equal
tax rates" to be enacted.
In other words, we cannot sound libertarian. We have to sound like
the Democrats and Republicans except for the Two Pillars.
This is the only way to obtain the 15% necessary to get into the
national TV election debates.
Such a third party (if led by the right candidate) would have a
powerful, galvanizing appeal to all Americans, which would capture
15% of the vote, then 25%, then 35% and eventually victory in a three-man
race. Millions of voters would rally around such a cause. The fear
that would rise up in the establishment crowd would be heart pounding.
Their corrupt game of buying votes through debasement of the currency
and progressive taxation would be over.
The time has come to form a third political party that actually
has the ability to make a difference. We could inject the two greatest
issues of our day -- honest money and equal tax rates --
into the living rooms of 100 million Americans every election year.
This would be big time, TV oriented, major league politics. It would
rock the nation, it would make history, and most importantly, it
would stop the growth of the Federal Leviathan cold.
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