The+Liberty+Party

__**Party members **__ President: Greg Vice President:  Summer

Treasurer: Cameron Secretary:  Trey

__**Purpose **__ Our purpose is to have more freedom and to keep our rights. We want to be able to keep all of our constitutional rights, including the right to own firearms and to free speech. We believe these rights are important, and essential to our happiness. We support the second amendment because people need to be able to defend themselves. We support free speech because people need be able to say what they want to say, as long as it doesn't violate other laws and rules that are put in place.

__**Platform **__
 * Taxes **: We will keep our income tax as a progressive tax, where wealthier people pay a higher percentage of their income. We will do this because we have a very high national debt right now, and we think that the rich have more money to help lower it. We will not tax any citizens more than necessary, but we believe that wealthier citizens should contribute more if it is needed. With that, we will do the best we can to tighten up our government spending to the things that are really necessary.


 * Economy **: We want to create more jobs. We plan to do this because most people need to work to get an income. If they aren’t working, then they’ll probably be on government assistance which is a drain on our government dollars. Everybody who can work should have the opportunity to. With that, we think that the unemployment rate is too high, so we need to work to lower it. We plan to do this by encouraging businesses to hire more Americans, and investing in industries and other fields that will create more jobs and help the economy.


 * Education **: We believe in equal opportunity for students, because all children deserve to have a good education. If all students have a good education, we think that it will be rewarding for our country. With that, we think that all students should be able to go to a quality school. We believe that schools should be impartial towards different religions when teaching. We also think that teachers have an important job, so we should pay teachers more. When we do that, it will reward good teachers for their hard work, and attract highly qualified people to the job.


 * Environment **<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia,serif;">: We believe that preserving the environment should be a priority of ours. A clean America is important because it will make us healthier, and will ensure we can continue living here. We think that many big corporations, if left to their own devices, will ruin America. We don’t want to let that happen. We also believe that us citizens need to do our part. We would like to minimize land development, preserve animal habitats, encourage recycling, invest in cleaner fuels for cars, and move America away from nonrenewable fossil fuels.


 * <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Foreign Affairs **<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia,serif;">: We think that America should not interfere with the rest of the world’s battles most of the time, because it is very expensive and we shouldn’t risk American lives without a good reason. America has an ever increasing national debt, and military funding is very expensive. If we stay out of frivolous battles, we won’t have to devote so much of our budget to military, and we will save lives. We think that the United States is very deep in debt, and usually will not have enough money to assist other countries. We should focus our budget only on things that directly impact us.


 * <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Gun Control **<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia,serif;">: The Liberty Party strongly believes in our constitutional rights. We do not think there should be gun control for anybody unless they’ve been convicted of a violent crime, or if they have mental issues that would make them having a gun dangerous. If they have been convicted of a violent crime, they need to be approved to have a gun. If they have mental issues that would make them having a gun dangerous, they should have to fix those issues somehow before they can own a gun. The Second Amendment guarantees our right to bear arms, so we think most U.S. citizens have the right to bear arms. If a citizen has committed a violent crime, we think it is fair to make them have to be approved to have a gun. They may have anger issues or other issues. We feel it is unfair to completely ban them from having guns because Americans need guns to defend themselves. However; if they aren’t approved to have a gun, they won’t be allowed to have one.


 * <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Immigration **<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia,serif;">: We think that illegal immigration is a problem. We want people to come here legally and become citizens rather than come here illegally and be aliens. With that in mind, we will secure the borders, and crack down on fake documents. In cases of people who are already here illegally, we will deport them. America can't afford to allow them to stay. They take jobs from American citizens. We don't have enough jobs, so this causes many of us to need to be receiving more benefits because we can't find work. Illegal immigrants themselves exploit the system by getting benefits without paying certain taxes because they are undocumented. If we don't deport them, it will encourage even more illegals to come here because they will be able to get away with it and "cut ahead in line". We believe there is a reason that we have a limit to the number of immigrants who can come here. If they are in danger in their home country, they can apply for asylum. Also, millions of pounds of drugs were smuggled into the United States from the Southern border. 4,100,000 crimes were committed by illegal aliens (besides simply coming into America illegally). With all this considered, we believe that America cannot afford to allow these illegal immigrants to stay.


 * <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Abortion **<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia,serif;">: We are pro-choice in cases of rape, incest, or danger to the mother’s life. We think that in most cases, abortion should not be legal, but in the cases listed above we believe that it should be legal. If you were raped, you did not choose to have the child, so if you don’t want to go through the pain you shouldn’t have to. In cases of incest, we think that certain problems are more likely to arise when children are born from parents that are related, because of a limited gene pool, so if the parents don’t want to keep the child because of that, it can be legal. We support abortion being legal in cases of danger to the mother’s life because the mother’s life is a priority.


 * <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Affirmative Action **<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia,serif;">: We disapprove of affirmative action because we feel that we should strive towards equality in America, and affirmative action is not equal. We think that it is not fair to treat people differently based on their race, gender or other irrelevant facts like that. Instead, when people are deciding on applicants for colleges or jobs, they should have complete freedom to accept the most qualified people.


 * <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Social Security **<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia,serif;">: We believe that social security is important, but we shouldn’t allow it to consume more of the budget than is necessary. We will strive to balance our social security system so people can get the the money they need, and the government isn’t spending too much money. With this, we believe that the retirement age should eventually be raised to 70. We think this because our life expectancy is a lot higher than it was when social security was first introduced, and social security can be very expensive. If the retirement age is increased to 70, then people won’t have benefits for as long so it will not be as expensive. They also have more experience, so older people can be valuable to many jobs. However, some people may need to retire sooner than 70, possibly because their job is very demanding, so retirement should be flexible.


 * <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Medicare **<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Georgia,serif;">: We think that Medicare is important, but it needs to be changed. This is because it is consuming a large amount of our budget, and we think that the costs need to be controlled and reduced. We think that we could reduce the amount of money that medicare consumes while also keeping people healthy by providing incentives for doctors to keep people healthy in cost effective ways. Under the current system, doctors could get more money by not treating in the most cost effective way. We think we could change that by not paying doctors for each thing they do, but rather a fixed amount with bonuses for how effective their treatment is for the patient. This would naturally encourage doctors to treat the patient well, and in a cost effective way. We also think we should encourage people to be healthier so they don’t have as many problems when they need to be taken care of with medicaid.

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