LIBERTY PLEDGE NEWSLETTER

The Liberty Pledge Newsletter is monthly publication for the contributors in the National Libertarian Party's Liberty Pledge Program and the Torch Club. It is also distributed to current National Committee Members and State Party Chairs in appreciation of their involvement and to serve them as a regular update on Libertarian activities at Headquarters and in the news.

Clippings and other stories of interest are appreciated.

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MAY 1986

Dear Supporters of Liberty,

What a month April was for our Party! Lots and lots of news from everywhere. Try as the world might, we just couldn't be blown out of the news; pushed back a page or two, but we were there.

There's so much news this month, that I'm going to forego a page of my writing and just let the clippings speak for themselves. By the way, for those of you who don't know it: we receive an average of 100 clippings a month, having to do with the activities of libertarians (individuals and groups). I have to fight with myself each month as to which clippings to print and which not to. Granted, some of the clippings are of the same story, repeated in the papers of one community or a nearby town, but let me tell you folks, this Party's moving!

I guess the hottest number for April was the "taking" of Big Water, Utah by the Utah LP. Evidently all five city council members and the mayor switched to the Libertarian Party. A reporter stated that Big Water is the first community in the nation "controlled" by the party ... I think "un-controlled" is a better description. In addition, the Utah LP is fielding 52 candidates in upcoming elections! The next time you have a drink in your hand, drink a toast to LP State Chairman, Bob Waldrop and the Utah activists. Well done, Utah!!

Norma Jean Almodovar (candidate for lieutentant governor) is really staying in the press in sunny California. Her credentials are excellent: Who knows law enforcement like a police officer? Who knows the reality of persecution for victimless crimes like a prostitute? And who could voice the futility of trying to legislate morality better than a person with a background in both occupations? This lady is definitely worth her weight in Kruggerands.

April was a month for many well planned tax protests. Andre Marrou was center stage in Anchorage where he took part in a march with 100+ others to the IRS offices. There Andre gave a speech decrying the income tax. He'd have made a better splash in the media, but our government bombed the Hell out of Libya the day before. It's an old ploy of stage magicians . ... when you don't want the audience to look at your left hand, catch their attention with your right.

So, fellow Libertarians, the rest is in the clippings, read on and enjoy.

SEE YOU NEXT MONTH! Pendery expects chorage Times Tax protesters stage lively rally Anchorage, AK Tax day to lose by a lot _1_ 7 .2 An April 15, 1986 Ventura Star Free Press by Jim Springer Studdert said. "They bulldoze, Times writer Ventura, CA Record Searchlight /April 3, 1986 they buffalo, they bluff a lot. Tax protesters rallied and pa- They're always threatening to Redding, CA April 16, 1986 raded today in a festive spirit take us to court. They act like that belied their resentment over they're the law and they're not." Libertarians get By BILL MILLER federal tax policies. There's no question that Har- A few feet away, Jerry Rapp, Getting horn blowing support ry Pendery, a little-known phys- age 11, was taking the day off from many passers-by, 100 or noisy response ician from Paradise, will win his from school to join the protest. political party's June primary. more demonstrators lined C "You know how parents are to call for protest But, according to his own Street on the Delaney Park Strip always right? Well, my parents forecast, the 2nd Congressional to display their conviction that hate the IRS and so I guess I hate District candidatE should lose federal income taxes are uncon- them too," Jerry said. "They There were a lot of motorists the general election by a land- stitutional. Enjoying balmy tem- just take money to help other honking their horns at Chuck slide. peratures, some were costumed Wright of Thousand Oaks Tues- people, but they use it to make "I think I'd be ecstatic with 5 and many carried colorful signs day night. bombs to blow up the earth . . . percent of the vote," he said blasting the Internal Revenue And it was music to his ears. It's gonna get like Russia." Wednesday in Redding. Service, hours before the mid- They were doing just what Wright Surveying the scene with sat- Pendery, representing the Lib- night tax deadline. wanted. isfaction was Rep, Andre Mar- ertarian Party, said his role in As a member of the Libertarian At noon, they headed off on a rou, the Alaska legislature's lone the ereollon lies in educating the Party, Wright was protesting the trek to the Internal Revenue Ser- Libertarian. public about what Libertarians federal income tax by picketing vice building where more rally- s'IlTiTis growing opposition are all about. Rep. Andre Marrou the post office in Oxnard. ing and speeches were planned. to unconstitutional taxes," Mar- Generally Libertarians sup- . . . opposes income tax His sign said, "Honk if you hate "I think the people here are rou said. "People are scared of port almost anything that trans- people who sense the govern- taxes." lates into less government intru- have always - been people who the IRS and in the United States ment is much more powerful A good number of procrastinat- sion in private lives, he said. have spoken out, but this is the — people shouldn't be afraid of than it is entitled to be under the ing taxpayers — the ones who It's essentially a free-market first time we've joined together government." were running in and out of the philosophy with an emphasis on Constitution," said rally organ- in unison." He said federal income taxes post office to mail in their last- individual rights. izer Jeff Dickstein. He said the Toting a sign proclaiming would be unnecessary if the gov- minute returns — did just that. That translates to calls for marchers were part of a loosely "IRS/KGB," Charles Studdert of ernment was "cut back to a level For men such as Wright, paying voluntary taxation, removal of knit group called People Against Anchorage explained why he was the founding fathers intended." taxes is the moral equivalent of government restrictions like gun Unconstitutional Taxation. demonstrating. He said excise and sales taxes, sin, he explained. control, an end to criminal pen- "It just sort of came to- "I support the movement to along with other consumption He and a half-dozen other party alties against marijuana cultiva- gether," Dickstein said of the get the IRS to back down from taxes, would be sufficient to fund members passed out flyers. tion and prostitution and so on. boisterous gathering. "There some of their gestapo tactics," government operations. "Haven't you said 'Uncle' Long Could such a system really Enough?" was one of the pam- work in the U.S.? Absolutely, phlets' headlines; "Taxation is Pendery said. theft," was another. A former Republican who be- measure, to put words into any. He believes the savings mix politics and religion, you Does he pay taxes himself? came a Libertarian six years deeds: that can be gleaned from more get too many politicians playing "Of course I do," Wright said, He urges increased privatiza- efficient government can more God." "I'm not in favor of going to jail. ago, Pendery said he's exam- ined the major political parties tion of most government sery than make up the difference. Pendery has a wife, Norma, The 16th amendment is the law, "and found them lacking. My ices, such as operation of fed The candidate also came out and three grown children. but we want to change it." campaign will be wrapped al dams and power plants. e strongly against attempts by The announced retirement of Wright said that his party around the slogan, 'We can do complains about "pork ba rel" groups like the Moral Majority incumbent Rep. Gene Chappie, would like to see governmemt better.' " defense spending and decries to drag moral issues into the R-Chico, triggered a rush of minimized. Although he's never run for the development of a "military political arena. interest in the vast 2nd District, Said fellow Libertarian Harry political office before, Pendery welfare system" overseas, in- "I think too many times one which covers 12 northern coun- Canter of Newbury Park: "The is confident that his low-budget cluding U.S. aid to foreign dicta- group or another has taken their ties, including Shasta, Siskiyou problem is that bureaucrats be- campaign will attract disenfran- torships. moral agenda and tried to make and Trinity. The primary elec- lieve the government is God and chised Democrats and Republi- As for income taxes, Pendery it the law of the land. When you tion is June 3. that they are kings and queens." cans — "abstract thinkers" who questions why there needs to be The Libertarians passed out share his party's government- their anti-tax pamphlets to any- limiting views. one who'd hold out their hand. More than one taxpayer ap- "As a movement, we look at proached the Libertarians to ask government coercion and force Former call girl campaigns a few questions. ,as the root of most, if not all, Sentinel A few of these citizens started evils," he said. Hanford, CA to debate, asking the Libertarians such things as, "So how do we for second state slot April 23, 1986 pay for those F-111 bombers we need to bomb Colonel Moammar DAVIS (UPI) — A former the department. Police confiscated Khadafy with?" her manuscript and have never Or, "Then how do we pay for call girl who is running for lieute- returned it. any of our government." nant governor says there's no Wright suggested that the feder- reason why voters should refrain al government start lotteries. Im- from electing an ex-prostitute to port and excise taxes were other public office. suggestions. Libertarian candidate Norma Another of Wright's suggestions Jean Almodovar made an irreverent was selling of the Postal Service plea for votes in a speech Tuesday to to a company such as Federal about 300 students at University of Express. California, Davis, Tuesday. They said a whole lot of money She detailed to the student could be saved if the government audience her transition from got out of every business except civilian traffic cop to prostitute. that of national defense. Almodovar later told reporters she is not really interested in win- This caused a great deal of ning the lieutenant governor's office debate with the passersby, and held by Remocrat Leo McCarthy, the whole scene was reminiscent of Berkeley's Sproule Plaza or who is seeking a second term. "The London's Hyde Park, the world's office of lieutenant governor is two largest meccas for arguing. Harry Pendery superfluous, and if elected, I would And in the midst of all the argu- abandon it," she said. ing, the long line of cars came Pendery supports President But there is no reason why a for- and went as men and women Reagan's appeals for tax reform mer prostitute should not be elected mailed in their tax returns at the and budget tightening, but he to public office, Almodovar said. To Norma Jean Almodovar last possible moment. chides him for failing, in large her, politics is only "legal prostitution anyway. In any case, "If they can elect a very direct." Herald Examiner / April 30, 1986 governor and a president who Almodovar is so direct, in fact, played in 'Bedtime for Bonzo,' I that "I don't think the people are Los Angeles, CA don't see why they can't elect ready for her quite yet," said someone from another part of the Klasch 21. a biology major from Call girl turned candidate enter tainment industry,- she told Placerville. reporters. The 34-year-old 1 irst-tirne political sues to make sex film She said she is running for public candidate makes no effort to con- oilier in an (Aloft "to promote the ceal the fact that in 1984 she was A former civilian traffic officer convicted 01 panderiag for trying to 1.1 be r t a r i a n philosophy" of who became a call girl and is now a personal freedom and focus atten- persuade another woman traffic of- Libertarian candidate for tion on "i ictimless crimes." ficer on tne Los Angeles Police vernor filed suit in federal Iler unusual campaign Department to become a prostitute. court yesterday to win the right to speech. if nothing else, grabbed the Almodovar readily admits she make a sex film without fear of attention of the students. was once a $200-an-hour call girl. violating her probation. Elizabeth Klasch and Jeff Miller She insists. however. that she was a Norma Jean Almodovar, 32, ,aid they skipped classes al the 1 1) victim of entrapment in her pan- claims the proposed 30-minute sex- because they wanted to hear what dering arrest. tidily explicit video is designed to "the call girl candidate" had to say. Sht. nrostitute after educate the public on "safe sex" Miller, 21, a physiology student working as a civilian traffic cop for techniques to avoid AIDS. from Shingle Springs. "She is enter- 10 years. She said she left the police The suit asks for a court order taining. I didn't have to listen to all department in disillusionment and barring the police from charging As last-minute filers run In and out of Oxnard's post office with tax that political rhetoric to get the was arrested only because she was her with violating her probation on returns, Libertarians protest the paying of taxes altogether point she wanted to make. She is writing a hook about corruption in a 1913.4".conviction for pandering.

-Says polygamist seeking office Ellensburg Record Ellensburg, WA If you can handle ten wives, you can do job April 14, 1986

BIG WATER, Utah (UPI) — since his small southern Utah music performers and "minding his "I think it's absolute proof of my conservative on the right end of the Mayor Alex Joseph has more wives community incorporated in own business," claims plural administrative ability." he said. Republican Party all of my adult than some men have neckties and he December 1983. marriage would make little dif- Joseph said he garnered 85 per- life. But if the Libertarians are says the organizational skills Now, he want to follow in the wake ference in his conduct in office, if cent of the vote while running willing to have me, I'm willing to required by a polygamist will be an of Royston Potter, another elected. unopposed in the 1985 race for mayor have them," he said.. asset if he's elected to the Kane polygamist living 300 miles to the "That (polygamy) is not my oc- of Big Water. despite most of the 300 "They (Republican incumbents) County Commission. north in suburban Salt Lake City, cupation, it's my lifestyle," he said. people in the community being take me plenty serious. That's the Jospeh, 51, has become the second has entered the race for Salt Lake "I've never been convicted of a devout monogamists. problem," he said. -They'll get Utah polygamist in two weeks to County Sheriff. crime in my life, so I've never organized real quick," Joseph said. seek public office on the Libertarian Joseph said polygamy will become And he said he has a good shot at Economic development and Party ticket. an issue in the campaign "because considered plural marriage illegal." the county commission post now holding down taxes will be two of his "I'm really dissatisfied with these they're going to try to use the The practice of polygamy is in fact held by Republican Vince Under- major issues, he said. characters (in the county com- prejudice against that lifestyle a misdemeanor in Utah, where wood, because of what Joseph "While they current com- mission) and I just don't think against me." authorities seldom prosecute of- perceives as a growing disen- missioners) mouth they want they're doing their job," Joseph, fenders. chantment with the "irresponsible" economic development and they But Joseph, who says besides his Rather than being a liability, and "unresponsible' attitude of GOP mouth they want people to develop who has 10 wives, said Sunday of his part-time mayor's job he makes his decision to run for commissioner. Joseph thinks his polygamy could office holders. (the area), they don't do anything living by managing some country help win votes. Joseph has held the mayor's job "As a pragmatist I've been a about it," Joseph said.

Bee / Fresno, CA / April 30, 1986 Deseret News Salt Lake City. UT Utah town is first in nation to go Libertarian April 5. 1 350 and a polygamist for mayor, Alex Joseph's 10 wives, said council came under Libertarian control dur- members Frank Flom, Janet DeJar- Polygamist enters BIG WATER, Utah — Four of five ing a meeting, one of hundreds held City Council members have Monday throughout the state to do and Charles Maness joined Jo- switched political allegiance to the choose delegates to county conven- seph in crossing over from the Re- Libertarian Party, making this tiny tions, said Chairman Bob Waldrop. publican Party. contest for sheriff community the first in the nation "It's not Salt Lake City, but it's a controlled by the party, the state start," Waldrop said. "It really sur- chairman said Tuesday. prised our national office." Big Water, with a population of Elizabeth Joseph, one of Mayor on Libertarian ticket

Roy Potter, who admits he has three wives and was fired from the Murray Police Department in 1982 for polygamy, announced Friday he is running for Libertarian Party Salt Lake County sheriff as a Libertarian. San Francisco Potter, 32, a business consultant from Taylorsville, pledged to enforce only Chronicle laws against crimes that inflict actual damage or injury and not those "victim- Takes a Utah Town less crimes" that "inhibit the private citizen in the peaceful exercise of his Big Water, tUalt ctlh surprisedour national Nllcc .. rightsff Tour 01 live ('Ity Council ',embers have switched political I lizttheth loseph. stho A1ni ot Ales I sire ph claims Is one of He said that means he would not arrest citizens who practice polygamy as allegiance to the !Abet-tartan Parma ma king this communitn the his 10 st res, raid council menthe, I t nk Iona Janet ISe lai do part of their religion. However, he said he would enforce bigamy laws where a lust in the national controlled by the party, the state chairman and Charles Maness untied loreph In crossing user Ito!, the one spnuse is guilty of deceiving another spouse about his or her marital status. said t7stertitly. Itteptiblican Part He would also not necessarily enforce other "victimless crimes" such as Big Water is a recently in corporated city 01350 population "I talked to the huh council n einher. and she's thinking unlawfttl alcohol consumption or living to- n Kane County near the Ari/ona border. It has a population of dhoti' ir to," said loseph , ho a her hushantrs tittorne getlter without marriage. "It is usually im- 3 50 and a major Who espouses polygamy. It came under loseph said her husband had gained a sizable political possibie to enforce such laws anyway . . . It I ibertarian control during it meeting to choose delegates to hdluisu ng timing his 10 s eats o1 inrol‘eimmi inyount Itepubli- is noble to do right. It is not noble to force county consentions. said Chairman Bob Waldrop. can politics. and 110, IC.i, tt Moe o1 more than 711 voters. someone else to do what you consider to be "It's not Salt Lake City. but ICS S1,111:" Waldrop said. "It tItshit !Wed right." He said such selective enforcement of law would reduce the sheriff's budget and reduce criminal 'activities in other more serious Polygamiw- Joins Libertarian Party Tribune April 14, 1986 areas. Salt Lake City. UT "Although," he said, "I have three women whom I call my wives," he said he is not violating any law. "The way I live does not Alex Joseph Runs for County Commission violate any statute. Show me a statute that it violates." However, he said he plans to push BIG WAR, Kane County (AP) Utah Libertarian Party, said the for a constitutional amendment to legalize — Polygamist Alex Joseph says he party recruited Joseph to run. polygamy. will run for Kane County commis- "We're trying to reach out to When asked why he would invite the pub- sioner, becoming the second polyg- people in Utah with different con- amist to declare for public office licity that would come by admitting he has stituencies who might be favorable three wives while running for sheriff, he said, on the Libertarian Party ticket in to us," Waldrop said. "We're trying Utah this yea': "A man of conviction has to do what he has to to build a coalition of groups who do. I know men and women who have gone to Joseph, who has 10 wives, has have been outside the power struc- prison for their religious beliefs." been the Republican mayor of Big ture." Water, near Lake Powell in south- He said he also doesn't know why polyga- ern Utah, since 1983. Joseph was elected mayor of Big my brings such attention. "It's perfectly nor- Water, population about 250, in mal." He unsuccessfully fought in courts for Roy Potter He said he decided to run for the 1983 and his seventh wife, Eliza- commission as a Libertarian be- two years against his firing from the Murray Police Department, claiming it beth was elected city attorney. was unconstitutional because it violated his religious freedom. cause he likes the party's goal of Elizabeth Joseph lost a bid for Potter says be has experience that could make him an effective sheriff. He reducing government, he said. county attorney in 1982. "The Libertarian Party is was a police officer between 1980 and 1982 in Murray and was an assistant aligned with my philosphy," Jo- Joseph, a former Modesto, provost marshal between 1978 and 1980 at the Tooele Army Depot. seph said in a telephone interview. Calif., police officer, was excom- He has a bachelor's degree in law enforcement and justice administration "I share the philosophy of getting municated from the Mormon from Brigham 'hung University, graduated from the U.S. Army Military Po- government out of people's lives. Church and later founded the lice School and graduated from the Utah Peace Officers Standards and Train- Less government is best govern- Church of Jesus Christ in Solemn ing academy. Assembly. ment." Can an admitted polygamist legally run for county sheriff? Plural marriage is illegal in Joseph gained national attention Alex Joseph Yes, according ho Deputy County Attorney Gavin J. Anderson, but his views Utah but prosecution of the thou- when he and a group of followers Wants Less Government might prevent him from serving any longer than six months if he wins. sands of Utahns praticing it rare. attempted to homestead federal Joseph has openly practiced polyg- land in southern Utah in 1975, but "The only legal qualification for the sheriff is that he must become a certified amy since the early 1970s. County Sheriff, also on the Liber- lost court battles and were evicted. police officer withinsix months after his election." "I elected to live the way I want tarian ticket. Potter who was fired Joseph said he decided to run for And Anderson said such certification may legally be denied by the director of to live a long time ago," Joseph from his job as a Murray police the commission because he is un- State Peace Officer Standards and Training for "any conduct or pattern of said. officer for practicing polygamy, happy with the management of the conduct that would tend to disrupt, diminish or otherwise jeopardize public Another polygamist, Royston has three wives. Kane County Hospital, which he trust and fidelity with regard to law enforcement." Potter, is running for Salt Lake Bob Waldrop, chairman of the said has run up a $300,000 deficit. Anderson said, "With his lifestyle, there's a good chance he would not be certified, meaning he wouldn't serve any longer than six months." Oregonian Portland, OR Libertarian leader has vision of self-reliant nation April 30, 1986

By JIM HILL "It's not an absence of law and The illegality of drugs, she said, has Acknowledging that only a relative of The &portion staff order at all," said Coffey, a Beaverton- resulted in high prices and in a high handful of Libertarian candidates had BEAVERTON — The new president area resident who succeeded Kent Dil- crime rate among those who must have gained office nationally, Coffey said of the Lihertariim Party of Oregon says lon of Philomath as head of the Liber- money to buy drugs. Coffey said that that Libertarians had managed to the party — by promoting a move tarian Party in Oregon. There are after visiting 22 countries she was con- appear on ballots in all 50 states. toward, rather than away from, indi- about 2,000 registered Libertarians in vinced that people who needed an She noted that the party in Oregon vidual liberty — can counter "a serious Oregon, according to the state Elec- escape from reality would find a way, has launched a court challenge in an loss of self-reliance" among Ameri- tions and Public Records Division. through drugs or other means. "Should effort to loosen election laws it cans. Libertarians, who tend to be ultra- we define them as criminals?" she believes make it overly difficult to Trish Coffey, elected at the party's liberal on social issues and ultraconser- asked. place third-party candidates on the state convention in Salem earlier this vative on economic issues, believe that In general, Coffey contended, no statewide ballot. month, said the present American every person has the inalienable right laws should be made to protect people Describing present requirements as political system was close to being a to life, liberty and property and that no from themselves. She said that while "some of the most difficult in the coun- social-welfare state, tending "to one has the right to use violence or mistakes sometimes can be fatal, they try," Coffey said it would take about reward helplessness" and give people threats to impose his or her values on also can help build character. 70,000 signatures to submit a slate of the attitude that they don't need to others. Regarding imposition of gasoline Libertarian candidates. look after themselves. The party views the only proper taxes by individual counties, Coffey Despite some problems, said Coffey, Regarding the party's purpose, she role for government to be the protec- declared that such taxes represent an "already we have had an impact on said, "The main impetus for it, I think, tion of individual rights against vio- unfair imposition on businesses in this country." is that the Republican and Democratic lence. those counties that must compete with She said that although many people parties have been moving away from At the party's state convention, businesses in neighboring counties shrugged off the efforts of socialist individual liberty.... What we want is attended by approximately 50 dele- without gasoline taxes. activists in the past, the nation had' a society that rewards the most pro- gates and observers, resolutions favor- She said one of her immediate "moved in that direction." The Liber- ductive, honest people of high moral TRISH COFFEY Working for individual freedom ing the repeal of county gasoline taxes priorities would be opposition to any tarian Party, she said, decided that the, character, and to discourage the preda- and passage of the Oregon marijuana new tax proposed by Tri-Met. She said country needed to move in the other tors in society." initiative were passed. she would rather see the transportation direction, toward individual liberty. Although Libertarians would like to agencies and based instead on free Coffey said she "hates smoke" and agency go broke and leave the transit "I hope we become'one of the major eliminate nearly all elements of gov- market principles would be more effi- is anti-smoking herself but defends the problem to private enterprise than to parties," Coffey declared, "but even if ernment, Coffey contended that a cient, more effective and more eco- rights of individuals to smoke ciga- see people pay "a tax without repre- we just reverse the trend, I'll be society run without today's myriad nomical. rettes or marijuana. sentation." thrilled."

Levittown Tribune Herald-Journal Levittown, N.Y. / April 3, 1986 Spartanburg, S.C. Tax bill should help Libertarian February 27, 1986 property owners Alternative Record / Columbia, S. C. The Nassau Libertarians realize March 12, 1986 that most people only recognize Letters I read with interest a letter which appeared in categories such as liberals and the March 4 Columbia Record conservatives. They are making from Ms. Jan L public a test devised by the Chapman of the S.C. Libertarian Party. I'm sure libertarian Society for Individual you are aware that often times what's proposed Liberty to help people identify in a bill is not necessarily what comes out in the themselves as libertarians. Provisions Of final form. H. 3252, which is currently in the Answer these ten questions yes Ways and Means. Committee, is somewhat or no. 1) Is government too big different from what I had anticipated. and are taxes too high? 2) Is the Local-Tax Proposal I will not vote for any bill that will raise best government that which gov- taxes. My interest in the Local Government erns least? 3) Should you be free Finance Act was because it would lower and/or to do whatever you want as long eliminate property taxes and also require a as you don't harm anyone else? 4) Dear Editor: public referendum, not advisory, before any new Do you think you could spend tax could be passed into law by local your own money more wisely than There is currently a 10-page bill before governments, the government spends it for you? the S. C. House Ways & Means Committee that. if enacted into law, will allow coun- I will have no part in a bill which will raise of 5) Should criminals be required to add taxes — such as an income tax, sales tax, work to pay restitution to their ties and cities to impose a sales and use tax, income tax, occupational tax, motor occupational tax or property tax. I think we are victims for losses and suffering, taxed entirely too much now. The only way I instead of being imprisoned at vehicle license tax, coin-operated device tax, and admissions tax. taxpayers' expense? 6) Should would even consider this bill would be as a means to eliminate property taxes. the US government stop trying to According to some newspaper reports, be the policeman of the world & the bill would lower or eliminate property In many counties, some 60 or 70 percent of the 7) Should the draft be permanent- taxes, require a referendum, and allow an people have to pay 100 percent of the property ly abolished? 8) Should laws "income" ov "occupational" tax, but not taxes. Property taxes are used to provide regulating or prohibiting "vices" revenues for county and municipal governments, both. These are, however, just myths. The schools, etc., and are, I think, quite often unfair. (such as gambling, pornography, bill: (1) says nothing about property taxes ; consenting sexual relations, and (2) requires only an advisory referendum An example of the unfairness of property taxes Sunday shopping be repealed? 9) before imposing a sales and use tax; and is that senior citizens, whose children have Is it wrong to force people to give (3) includes an "income" tax within the graduated and have not been in the public charity to others? 10) Inflation "occupational" tax. schools for 20 or 30 years, must continue to pay should be prevented by stopping taxes to support the school districts. government expansion of the A copy of the bill is available from the I must agree with Jan Chapman. There is no money supply. Legislative Council on the second floor or the Statehouse (telephone 758-2306). way I will vote for a bill which places all of Multiply your total number of these other taxes on top of the current property "yes" answers by 10 to find your taxes. I also will have no part in a bill which percent libertarian. If this gives Jan L. Chapman you a clue the Libertarians invite S. C. Libertarian Party denies local people the opportunity to determine you to contact them by writing their own taxing methods. Nassau Libertarian Party, PO Box 1729, Massapequa, N.Y. 11758 or DISTRICT 92 REP. FRED L. DAY calling their HQ at 212-226-6483. Ladson