Great Quotes from Maryland Libertarians

"Address environmental issues using English common law: he who makes the mess pays for the mess. No further caps on damages, à la BP."

Lorenzo Gaztañaga
Libertarian Candidate for Congress
District 2, Maryland

Great Quotes from Maryland Libertarians

"Every school has its own unique set of challenges, and the last thing we should do is chain our schools to legislation. Schools should be autonomous and allowed to tackle their challenges in a manner that best fits their goals. In the same regard, the parents of attending children should be able to hold these schools more accountable."

Justin Kinsey

Libertarian Candidate for Maryland House of Delegates

District 5b

Libertarians Offer a Balance Budget for FY2012

Maryland Libertarian Mark Grannis, a candidate for Congress in the 8th District and Ohio Libertarian Congressional hopeful have issued a PRESS RELEASE on their proposed Fiscal Year 2012 Balanced Budget.

Here is the proposed Budget and where they would make cuts.

Libertarian Mark Grannis and Ohio Libertarian Travis Irvine propose a blanced for FY2012

Great Quotes from Maryland Libertarians - Dan Massey

"There is NO role for the federal government in education. Education is most productive when it is handled at the local community level. Spending money has been shown not to improve education levels. The most effective way to improve education is to let the local leaders and the principle control their own budget. School choice would add free enterprise into the system and kids would flow to successful schools and those unsuccessful schools would lose their funding."

Dan Massey
Libertarian for U.S. Congress
District 4, Maryland

Great Quotes from Maryland Libertarians

"Instead of bail-outs, how about a holiday from FICA and bringing to justice the fraud makers of the economic meltdown, both in the banks and in the government? That might reinforce America's economic health, restoring trust. Leave the taxes alone for the time being."

Lorenzo Gaztañaga
Libertarian Candidate for Congress
District 2, Maryland

Great Quotes from Maryland Libertarians

"I believe in the right to keep and bear arms, and oppose the prosecution of individuals for exercising their rights of self-defense. Law-abiding, mentally-stable citizens who choose to own a firearm should be allowed to do so without restriction. I support open-carry of firearms without a permit, and I support loosening restrictions for carrying a concealed firearm."

Justin Kinsey

Libertarian Candidate for Maryland House of Delegates

District 5b

Scott Spencer on Being a Libertarian

"As a Libertarian, I believe in personal liberty and personal responsibility. Libertarians favor an end of the use of government force to enact the policies of special interests, regardless of their place on the political spectrum.

Ultimately, this is based on the principle that no person should deprive another of life, liberty, or property through the initiation (or threat) of force or fraud.

Vote Libertarian, and help us renew the American values of freedom and independence."

Scott Spencer

Libertarian for U.S. Congress

District 7, Maryland

Great Quotes from Maryland Libertarians

"The undeclared, unconstitutional wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are bankrupting us. The missions keep changing to justify our going in and staying in. We went into Iraq to disarm Saddam Hussein, who supposedly was developing weapons of mass destruction. When WMD's were not found, the mission changed to removing a bad man who was oppressing his people. Well, there are many tyrants doing that around the world. How many countries are we going to invade? It can't be done. We went into Afghanistan to get Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda for what they did on 9/11. Now the story is that we're fighting the Taliban and nation building. This is policy shape shifting."  

Lorenzo Gaztañaga

Libertarian Candidate for Congress

District 2, Maryland

Great Quotes from Maryland Libertarians - Josh Crandall

"One of the biggest obstacles to lowering taxes is that by lowering taxes we have to reduce government spending, thereby reducing government handouts. I guess what people don't understand is that when you have more of your own money because you're paying less taxes, you don't need the government to provide so much for you. I support lower taxes, more freedom, and a smaller government."

Josh Crandall
Libertarian Candidate for Maryland House of Delegates
District 31

Great Quotes from Maryland Libertarians - Bryan Walker

I am an avid student of Austrian Economics. No government in the history of mankind has ever spent their way to prosperity. I believe in balanced budgets, small government, and the free market. We have not had a free market in this country in the last 100 years. I believe that social and economic freedom are one in the same.



Bryan Walker
Candidate for Maryland House of Delegates
District 21

Great Quotes from Maryland Libertarians

"We should not have to sacrifice one Marylander’s income in favor of another’s. We all work hard for our money, and we all deserve to enjoy it."

Justin Kinsey

Libertarian Candidate for Maryland House of Delegates

District 5b

WMDT 47 Article -- Dr. Davis Preparing For 1st District --

Latest News
by - Amber Watson
09/29/2010
  HURLOCK, Md. - The Congressional race in Maryland's First District is heating up.
While many in the race are focusing on job creation, Libertarian candidate Dr. Richard Davis says he is more concerned about cutting government spending and stabilizing the dollar.

Dr. Davis has lived in Hurlock for about 28 years and says he is in touch with several of the concerns of Eastern Shore residents. He believes the job crisis will end, once government gets a handle on spending and reduces the debt. "I think part of the reason there's a problem with jobs is because it's so hard to hire people with all the regulations, all the taxes and insurances and fees that are mandated. It just discourages people from hiring," said Dr. Davis. He says he would also like to extend some existing tax cuts to help businesses.

Read the rest at WMDT

Great Quotes from Maryland Libertarians

"As an edu­ca­tor, I have seen the ben­e­fits of choice and inno­va­tion in edu­ca­tion. As an econ­o­mist and actu­ary, I see the mas­sive eco­nomic growth that school choice can give Mary­land. A school-choice voucher pro­gram would help our stu­dents sur­pass their inter­na­tional com­pe­ti­tion, reduce costs, and build our economy."

Arvin Vohra
Libertarian Candidate for Maryland House of Delegates
District 15

Great Quotes from Maryland Libertarians

"It's time to take a good, hard look at what the Federal Reserve does, and at what it has done to both to the economy, and to the US dollar.

If, after careful examination, it is determined that this is an institution that has done more harm than good (a position stated in Ron Paul's End the Fed, and in Murray Rothbard's The Case Against the Fed), then it should be abolished."

Scott Spencer

Libertarian Candidate for Congress

District 7, Maryland

Great Quotes from Maryland Libertarians

"Our country is bankrupt. Our representatives in Congress and the Senate don't want to talk about it, but it's true. This is a greater threat to our national security than any terrorist organization, and it's a threat we have created ourselves. Acknowledging the fact that we're bankrupt will allow us to start fixing it. We need the right person in Congress -- me."

Lorenzo Gaztañaga
Libertarian Candidate for Congress 
District 2, Maryland

A Citizen's Guide to Federal Firearms Laws

National Rifle Association of America, Institute for Legislative Action

A summary of federal restrictions on the purchase, sale, possession, and transportation of firearms and ammunition.
Caution: Firearm laws are subject to frequent change and court interpretation. This summary is not intended as legal advice or restatement of law. This summary does not include state or local laws, ordinances, or regulations. For any particular situation, a licensed local attorney must be consulted for an accurate interpretation.

Under federal law supported by the National Rifle Association, the use of a firearm in a violent or drug-trafficking crime is punishable by a mandatory prison sentence of up to 20 years. A second conviction, if the firearm is a machine gun or is equipped with a silencer, brings life imprisonment without release. Violating firearms laws should lead to very real punishment for violent criminals, but the laws first must be enforced.

Ineligible Persons
The following classes of people are ineligible to possess, receive, ship, or transport firearms or ammunition:

• Those convicted of crimes punishable by imprisonment for over one year, except state misdemeanors punishable by two years or less.
• Fugitives from justice.
• Unlawful users of certain depressant, narcotic, or stimulant drugs.
  
• Those adjudicated as mental defectives or incompetents or those committed to any mental institution.
• Illegal aliens.
• Citizens who have renounced their citizenship.
• Those persons dishonorably discharged from the Armed Forces.
• Persons less than 18 years of age for the purchase of a shotgun or rifle.
• Persons less than 21 years of age for the purchase of a firearm that is other than a shotgun or rifle.
• Persons subject to a court order that restrains such persons from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner.
• Persons convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.

 

Great Quotes from Reagan

“I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.”
– Ronald Reagan, 1975

Great Quotes from Maryland Libertarians - Lorenzo Gaztañaga

"The "war on drugs" has cost billions of dollars, ruined lives, and made all Americans less free, while doing nothing to help the addicted. It's alcohol prohibition redux, and we bleed the billions. The facts are there, and I'm willing to discuss it with anybody."

Lorenzo Gaztañaga
Libertarian Candidate for Congress
District 2, Maryland

Administration's Thuggery Threatens Free Speech...

by Nat Hentoff

On September 9, autocratic Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary, wrote a threatening letter to the national office of America's Health Insurance Plans. Charging these insurance companies with "scare tactics" and "misinformation" about the president's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Sebelius is incensed at their "falsely blam(ing) premium increases for 2011" on this Obamacare.

She warns these miscreants that "there will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases." Missing from her edict is where she finds in the Constitution the authority of the executive branch to punish free-speaking critics of the implementation of a law.

And punish she will. There will be an enemies list: "We will also keep track of insurers with a record of unjustified rate increases: those plans may be excluded from health insurance Exchanges in 2014."
Bottom line: Shut up or we'll make you pay.

Read the rest at CATO