Posted by
Countryman on Thursday, May 22, 2008 7:51:09 AM
To make it a bit more organized, please add your comments concerning Charles Baldwin and the Constitution Party here.
To start the ball rolling, here is the Constitution Party Mission Statement:
Constitution Party Mission Statement
The mission of the Constitution Party is to secure the blessings of
liberty to ourselves and our posterity through the election, at all
levels of government, of Constitution Party candidates who will uphold
the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
of the United States. It is our goal to limit the federal government to
its delegated, enumerated, Constitutional functions and to restore
American jurisprudence to its original Biblical common-law foundations.
Here is the Constitution Party's Presidential nominee Charles Baldwin's statement of what he would do as President:
http://www.constitutionparty.com/news.php?aid=749
It is much too long to reprint here, but I'll sum it up as best I can:
Withdrawal from Iraq
Secure the borders and deport illegals already here
Remove abortion from SCOTUS purview, in effect overturning Roe v Wade
End foreign aid
Withdrawal from the UN
End the NAFTA superhighway
Drill for oil in the US
Disband the Depts. of Energy and Education, among others
Abolish the income tax
Abolish the Federal Reserve
Please go read it in full, as you mustn't trust my word for what his primary issues are.
One thing that bothers me about his platform: he advocates abolishing the IRS and repealing the 16th Amendment, but also says he is against a national sales tax (Fairtax) without explaining where any revenue would come from.
The time is long past when the Federal government could rely solely on tariffs, duties, and excise taxes for its revenue.