Stand Up! It's Time to Re-Define the Lines!

For those of you who don't know me I'd like to take this opportunity to further explain my platform, and why I'm running....

I believe in eliminating the income tax. While many people have completely lost faith in our elected leaders to accomplish this, I will support any legislation that lowers taxes and brings us closer to the ultimate goal of an income tax free society. And while I'm on the subject of taxes, let me add that no one should ever have to pay taxes on their Social Security Pension; it's already taxed from us to begin with! Profitable free enterprise and industry cannot survive if the elderly and middle class are ground out of existence between the millstones of excessive taxation and extreme inflation.

I was born right around the time that President Ronald Reagan was sworn in. I grew up proud of Reagan's example of conservatism in economic and foreign policy. President Reagan worked hard to rein in runaway government spending, limit the size and scope of federal government, and build a strong national defense.

Unfortunately, now we have a new generation of American politicians charged with the renewed responsibility to preserve a limited constitutional government, with almost no Reagans, Goldwaters, or Ron Pauls left to answer the call. Making matters worse, our leaders double, triple, and quadruple the powers of the federal government, the executive branch, and the military-industrial complex, and allow our national debt to grow by means of all sorts of wasteful government spending, with little or no resistance from either side of the aisle, and no plans or even intentions of ever paying back what we owe.

Some very tragic examples come to mind when I consider how far off track we've gotten in recent years. More than 4,000 soldiers have been killed in Iraq and we seem to be making no effort to bring them home any time soon.

Once a sacred platform for Conservative Republicans, the protection of the innocent unborn against needless slaughter seems to have slowly gone the way of the buffalo. Even worse, we allow our government to subsidize abortion making little more than a quiet peep in protest.

We've allowed fear to hold us in its grip for most of this decade, giving up our individual liberties one at a time along the way. Not heeding the warnings of our founding fathers regarding what happens when you sacrifice liberty for security, we've unwittingly given up both, thinking that somehow, someday, we won't have to be afraid anymore.

Barry Goldwater taught us that preserving liberty and expanding freedom in our country are the only ways we can truly safeguard it from the forces of tyranny from without. Ronald Reagan toppled the Soviet Union without dropping a single bomb on Moscow . Reagan chose to build a strong national defense, rather than decimate the size of our armed forces in needless conflicts around the globe.

Not everything in this country is doom and gloom. The Constitution still exists and there is still time to restore it to its original magnificence. I call upon the growing number of conservative-minded people to advance our protest against aggressive foreign policy, high taxes, and large, overreaching federal government.

Warmest Regards,

David A. Gay, Sr.

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