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As no amount of government intervention can increase a free market’s mutual benefit to all parties through natural equilibrium, APT promotes a strict hands off policy.
APT recognizes the legitimate role of government in markets: the rule of law. Favors for special interests and coercive tax structures of government are not representative of freedom.
- The Federal Reserve
APT recognizes the fallacies of the expansion of the money supply. While cheap credit though fresh notes (keeping interest rates artificially low) is believed to stimulate growth, the misallocation of resources through this policy leads to the creation of bubbles which inevitably burst. The free market is the best way to assure proper, long term allocation of resources along production paths in line with consumer demand.
No more monetary manipulation, no more inflation. The Fed is responsible for the depreciation of your dollars through the expansion of the money supply (inflation), an overall reduction of purchasing power. This system is the slow redistribution of wealth from the hands of many to the hands of few, effectively a hidden tax.
- Sound money
In order to provide a hard currency free from the depreciation of wealth and the ravages of the business cycle, we must have currencies backed by a standard of exchange such as silver or gold. Competitive currencies shall never be prohibited.
- Bailouts and Fake Capital
Capitalist societies are founded on the need to provide all persons with the equal right and means to prosperity. Government has no place intervening in the natural equilibrium of the market, including the need to allow waning firms to fail for the good of those who remain.
Capitalism works when entrepreneurs risk their own investments with the chance of a return. Universal competition has provided the public with innovative goods and services at lower prices. Cozy government safety nets not only reward failed enterprise, but also punish all others with an unnecessary burden on the market’s intended competitive and thus mutually beneficial nature.
No person, regardless of religious belief, color, origin, political ideology, previous record of criminal activity, or suspected criminal activity, should ever be subject to the loss of self-evident human rights under any circumstance. All persons have the absolute and unwavering universal rights found within the Constitution at all times. While terrorism is never an excusable tactic, those accused of such a crime are to be treated humanely, as government’s right to disregard human rights sets a dangerous precedent for citizens.
- A State’s right to sovereignty
The tenth amendment states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The decision of a respective state shall at all times remain supreme to that of the Federal Government. States’ are their own lawmakers and enforcers.
- Guns
The second amendment states: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." The means with which to defend one's self is an imperative in a free society.
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Keep wealth in private hands
The market can only grow when there is ample capital in the hands of consumers. Individuals, as part of the diverse system of voluntary, decentralized exchange, know how to spend their money more effectively than any bureaucrat could ever. Big government and an overzealous tax burden stand in the way of opportune natural market prosperity.
Prohibition has not, nor will it ever, rectify the actual problem of drug proliferation. Increased sanction is known to drive the illicit drug market deeper into the ranks of criminal enterprise. As alcohol prohibition, illicit funds perpetuate criminal enterprise; including terrorism.
Drug prohibition has led to the erosion of civil liberties. Continued invasion of privacy and condition for the destruction of the fourth amendment can be attributed to the War on Drugs. APT supports education over incarceration. Legal regulation of marijuana will prove to be an asset: reducing the judicial strain, generating massive tax revenue, and promoting a criminal disassociation for a young person buying a bag of grass.
The inability to regulate highly addictive drug potency has proven fatal for addicts. America must defame drugs by simply regulating them. Contrary to popular opinion, drug usage will not skyrocket after decriminalization. The answer is obvious; everyone who wants drugs can get them already.
Global moderator, nation builder, and spreader of democracy are not duties listed within the Constitution, nor are they just bills for citizens. Not only have these actions reduced the effectiveness of individual nations in their own affairs, it has itself created a violent movement that led to the events of September 11th.
Preemptive war is not an equitable response to foreign contention. Standing military installations worldwide should be closed, and troops brought home. A strong defense from home is the only acceptable defense for a truly free people.
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International Sovereignty
The people of these United States shall not be forced to relinquish their sovereignty to international organizations such as the United Nations. |
