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Advice from an elected Libertarian
John Inks, an elected Libertarian on the Mountain View (California) City Council whose 2012 re-election campaign was promoted by the LNCC, offers this advice to Libertarians running for local office: Advice to Libertarians who wish to run for City Council: You may or may not follow my path. It’s a change of life and a […]
Read moreMaryland raises taxes, millionaires pack up and leave
A new study finds Maryland’s attempt to raise tax revenue by hiking taxes on “the rich” has backfired, as the state’s wealthy job creators simply packed up and moved. “The study, by the anti-tax group Change Maryland, says that a net 31,000 residents left the state between 2007 and 2010, the tenure of a ‘millionaire’s […]
Read moreThree in four support cutting back on government employee perks
The public has some advice for Libertarian officeholders looking to trim government fat — start with how you finance government employee benefits. 74 percent of adults favor “requiring public employees to contribute more toward their own pensions and health care,” and 24 percent oppose, a new Reason-Rupe survey of Wisconsin finds. “The Reason-Rupe poll asked […]
Read moreThe Real 1%: Government Employees
With Greece in flames, the United States’ credit rating downgraded and many cities and states teetering on bankruptcy, Libertarian National Campaign Committee Chairman Wayne Allyn Root takes on the real “one percent” looters: the bloated government workforce. Root writing for Fox News, states in part: The truth is that government employees are the true 1%. […]
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