California 10.98%
Texas 9.77%
Florida 5.69%
Washington 5.20%
Other 68.37%
Government is too big, too bossy, too nosy, and it often hurts the people it's supposed to help. Generations of Republican and Democrat politicians have failed the people of America. Both have given us:
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Over $23 trillion in debt, trillion-dollar deficits, plus trillions more in unfunded liabilities
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Non-Stop involvement in expensive and deadly foreign wars
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Skyrocketing health care costs
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The highest imprisonment rate in the world; even higher among racial minorities and the poor
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A broken retirement system unable to pay promised benefits
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Tariffs that are destroying markets for American farmers
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An endless immigration crisis
Big government mandates and programs created these problems. To solve them, we need to make the federal government smaller – much, much smaller.
That won’t be easy. The two dominant parties, both of which have massively expanded government over the last century, have created barriers to political competition. The mainstream media continues to pretend voters do not have the third option that Libertarians fight to bring every voter in every state.
But here’s the thing: the American voter is smarter, more principled, and more fed up than anyone in Washington suspects. The more voters see of the old parties’ representatives - the squabbling, the lying, the fear-mongering, the corruption and conflicts of interest - the more disgusted voters become. This opens the door for libertarians to show how individual freedom, real criminal justice reform, deregulation, slashing of taxation, and peaceful foreign policy will benefit everyone.
What appeals to voters most is a candidate who delivers the change they want and need for their families. A candidate who takes on the entrenched, bipartisan “establishment” which routinely squashes our civil rights; sends too many young people to die in needless wars; tears families apart and ruins business enterprises with irrational, racist policies such as the mandated minimum wage, welfare programs with perverse incentives, suppressive business-licensing laws, and the devastating and costly drug prohibition. A candidate who will end skyrocketing health-care costs by enabling a thriving, free market, with real price competition.
Voting Libertarian attracts more good Libertarian candidates and more votes: we are building up a movement, not just a single candidate or campaign. I am running to create real change for real people, bringing the core values of individual liberty and small, limited government back to the heart of America.
