You Don’t Have to Vote for a Democrat or a Republican!
There is a principled alternative to politics as usual. Libertarians believe that you have the right to live your life as you see fit — as long as you take responsibility for your actions and don’t violate the rights of other people.
Democrats and Republicans — liberals and conservatives alike — have various plans to run your life. They believe “there ought to be a law.” Libertarians believe “there ought to be a choice.” Leave people alone and they will grow and prosper.
Government officials pass law after law, tax after tax, and regulation after regulation. Politicians and bureaucrats want power over our lives. They don’t care whether their plans work or not — as long as they have “good intentions.” There are too many laws. I am not running for U.S. Senator to be a “lawmaker.” I am running to repeal as many laws as I can.
There are basic laws that we all know to follow. Crimes such as murder, rape, robbery and fraud should be illegal. But there are actually thousands of pages of laws, which turn non-violent personal behavior into crimes, or which create countless bureaucratic administrative offenses. It’s been said that Americans commit three felonies a day without even knowing it. There are 137,000 armed federal agents from 83 different agencies who are prepared to enforce all of these laws and regulations. Here in Texas, there are over 78,000 licensed “peace officers” working for over 2,700 police agencies.
The other candidates for U.S. Senator in all other parties want to run your life; they want more and bigger government. I am the candidate who wants less.
No Libertarian has ever raised anyone’s taxes (in fact, in 1982 Libertarian legislators in Alaska succeeded in repealing the state income tax). Libertarians coined the term “privatization,” which means that government services can be more efficiently and economically provided by free market competition. Libertarians have opposed the War on Drugs for over 50 years. Libertarians spoke up for gay and lesbian Americans’ right to marry in the 1970s, decades before Democrats did. Libertarians have fought laws that violate your personal privacy and liberty at the federal, state, and local levels. Libertarians are consistently anti-war and foreign intervention, unlike the warmongers of the other parties.
When you vote, remember that voting for the lesser of two evils still means voting for evil.
You don’t have to vote for a Democrat or a Republican. You can see what those establishment parties have done to our nation. Instead, vote for a candidate who will not buckle under special interests and partisan pressures.
Vote for Libertarian Ted Brown to send a message that you want a big change in the way they do business at the U.S. Capitol.
