What We Stand For
Not vague promises. Not focus-grouped slogans. Actual positions with actual reasoning. Agree or disagree — at least you'll know where we stand.
"Your autonomy ends where another's begins."
Every position on this page flows from this single principle. You're free to live your life however you want — until your choices harm someone else. Then you're accountable. That's it.
Honest Money
You should know exactly what government costs — and have a say in it.
📊 The Digital Dollar
The Problem
The current tax system is 75,000 pages of incomprehensible code. The wealthy hire accountants to exploit loopholes. Corporations shift profits offshore. The IRS has 87,000 employees enforcing rules no one understands. Meanwhile, they print money without your consent, diluting your savings through inflation — a hidden tax that appears on no ballot.
The Solution
Replace the entire tax code with a single, transparent transaction fee. Every transaction — purchases, transfers, trades — includes a small, visible fee. No income tax. No corporate tax. No payroll tax. No capital gains tax. No IRS. Just one simple fee you can see every time money moves.
- Total transparency: You see exactly what government costs, every single transaction
- No loopholes: Everyone pays the same rate — no exceptions, no deductions, no games
- No evasion: If you participate in the economy, you contribute
- Progressive in practice: Those who spend more, pay more
- Eliminates the IRS: No audits, no forms, no compliance costs
📉 Fiscal Responsibility
The Problem
$34+ trillion in debt. $1 trillion per year in interest payments alone. Politicians promise everything, bill your grandchildren, and retire before the consequences arrive. There's no accountability for fiscal recklessness because the people who borrow aren't the people who pay.
The Solution
Balanced budget requirement with real teeth. Require supermajority votes for deficits. Automatic spending cuts if budgets aren't balanced. No off-budget accounting tricks. Make the people who vote for spending feel the consequences of that spending.
- Pay as you go: If you want a program, fund it — don't borrow for it
- Honest accounting: No off-budget tricks, no unfunded mandates hidden in projections
- Generational fairness: You don't get to bind your grandchildren to debts they never agreed to
Individual Liberty
Your body is yours. Your property is yours. Your choices are yours.
💊 Drug Policy: Anti-Prohibition
The Problem
50+ years of the War on Drugs. $1 trillion+ spent. 45+ million arrests. Result: drugs are more available, more potent, and more deadly than ever. Cartels are richer than ever. And millions of lives have been destroyed by criminal records for victimless choices about their own bodies.
The Solution
We're not pro-drug. We're anti-prohibition. Legal, regulated access at age 25+ (when the brain is fully developed). Treatment instead of prison. Let adults make adult decisions about their own bodies — and hold them accountable if they harm others while impaired.
- Your body is yours: What you put in it is your business
- 25+ age limit: More restrictive than current alcohol/tobacco laws
- Full accountability: DUI, harm to children, violence while impaired = full penalties
- Legal beats illegal: Regulated supply is safer than street supply
- Treatment, not cages: Addiction is a health problem, not a criminal one
🔫 Right to Bear Arms
The Problem
"Shall not be infringed" has been infringed thousands of times. Background check delays, red flag laws without due process, arbitrary bans on cosmetic features, registration schemes that have historically preceded confiscation. The right to self-defense is treated as a privilege to be licensed.
The Solution
Autonomy requires the capacity to protect it. If you're not currently incarcerated or under court-ordered supervision for violent crime, your right to keep and bear arms is absolute. No registration. No licensing. No arbitrary restrictions.
- Rights aren't licensed: You don't need permission to exercise a constitutional right
- Clear line: Violent criminals lose gun rights. Everyone else keeps them.
- Self-defense is fundamental: You can't have autonomy if you can't defend it
- Distrust of standing armies: An armed citizenry is the final check on tyranny
🔒 Privacy
The Problem
Mass surveillance of American citizens. The NSA collects your metadata. The FBI can access your browsing history without a warrant. Companies harvest your data and sell it. The government pressures tech companies to build backdoors. The Fourth Amendment has been interpreted into meaninglessness.
The Solution
Your data is your property. Mass surveillance without individualized suspicion is prohibited. No collection, retention, or sharing of personal data without explicit consent or a valid warrant. No compelled backdoors. Privacy is autonomy — if they can watch everything you do, you're not free.
- Data is property: Your information belongs to you, not corporations or government
- Warrants required: Individualized suspicion, not dragnet collection
- No backdoors: Government can't force companies to compromise security
- Encryption is speech: You have the right to communicate privately
👶 Life and Informed Consent
The Problem
The abortion debate has been captured by extremes — one side sees only the woman's autonomy, the other only the fetus's life. Neither engages honestly with the complexity. Meanwhile, decisions are made without full information, and the debate generates more heat than light.
The Solution
Informed consent, real information, then choice. Before any decision: see the ultrasound, know the development stage, understand all options including adoption, receive factual medical information. Then the decision is yours. Your body, your choice — but an informed choice.
- Information first: Full facts before any irreversible decision
- Autonomy respected: After information, the choice belongs to the individual
- No coercion either way: Neither forced birth nor pressured abortion
- Support available: Whatever choice is made, resources exist to support it
Real Accountability
Same rules for everyone. Higher standards for those with power.
👮 End Qualified Immunity
The Problem
Government officials — including police — are shielded from civil liability even when they violate your constitutional rights. Courts invented "qualified immunity" from nothing; it appears nowhere in the Constitution. The result: officials can abuse power with no personal consequences.
The Solution
No doctrine of immunity shall shield officials from accountability. If you violate someone's rights, you face consequences — badge or no badge. Government officials should be held to higher standards, not exempted from them.
- Personal liability: Officials who violate rights face personal consequences
- Higher standards: Crimes by officials carry enhanced penalties
- Prosecutors too: Hiding evidence, malicious prosecution = disbarment and criminal liability
- Judges reviewed: Patterns outside norms trigger review
🔨 Criminal Justice: Two Tracks
The Problem
The system is backwards. Non-violent drug offenders serve years in prison. Meanwhile, child rapists are out in 5-7 years. Repeat violent offenders get endless chances. We're hard on the harmless and soft on the dangerous.
The Solution
Soft on drugs. Hard on violence. Non-violent offenders get rehabilitation and restitution. Violent predators get one strike. Rape, child abuse, premeditated murder? You've proven who you are. Done. Exile for the worst — permanent removal from society.
Soft Track (Non-Violent)
- • Drug possession → Treatment, not prison
- • Property crimes → Restitution to victims
- • First-time offenders → Second chances
- • Goal: Restore victim, reform offender
Hard Track (Violent)
- • Crimes against children → One strike, done
- • Rape → One strike, done
- • Premeditated murder → Life or death
- • Goal: Protect the innocent, including future victims
🗳️ Money Out of Politics
The Problem
$14+ billion spent on the 2020 election. Politicians spend 50%+ of their time fundraising. Access is sold to the highest bidder. Super PACs allow unlimited anonymous spending. Elections are auctions — the candidate with the most money wins 90%+ of the time.
The Solution
Public platform for all candidates. No private money. Period. Every qualified candidate gets equal space on a government-provided platform to present their case. No fundraising. No donations. No PACs. No corporate money. Elections should be contests of ideas, not wealth.
- Equal access: Every qualified candidate gets the same platform
- Zero private money: No donations, no PACs, no Super PACs
- Ideas over wealth: Win on your arguments, not your bank account
- No revolving door: Long cooling-off periods before officials can lobby
Limited Government
Clear boundaries. Enumerated powers. Constraints that actually constrain.
⏱️ Term Limits That Mean Something
The Problem
Career politicians who've been in Congress for 40+ years. 97% incumbent re-election rate. They become creatures of Washington, disconnected from constituents, focused on staying in power rather than serving. Politics becomes a career rather than service.
The Solution
12 years maximum in Congress. Six terms in the House, two in the Senate — then you're done. Go home. Live under the laws you passed. Let someone else serve.
- Citizen legislators: Serve, then return to private life
- Fresh perspectives: Regular turnover brings new ideas
- Reduced corruption: Harder to build fiefdoms with limited tenure
- Live with consequences: You'll be a citizen under these laws soon
🚨 Emergency Powers That Expire
The Problem
Emergency powers declared and never rescinded. National emergencies from decades ago still technically in effect. Rights suspended during crises and never restored. "Temporary" measures become permanent. Government never gives back power voluntarily.
The Solution
90 days maximum, then supermajority to renew. All emergency declarations automatically sunset. Require 70% of both houses to extend. No emergency power can suspend enumerated rights. Ever. No exceptions.
- Automatic sunset: Emergencies end unless actively renewed
- Supermajority required: Not a simple majority — 70% of both houses
- Rights are inviolable: No emergency justifies suspending constitutional rights
- No property seizure: No taking without just compensation, emergency or not
🛡️ Defense, Not Offense
The Problem
800+ military bases in 70+ countries. Endless wars that cost trillions and achieve nothing. Regime change operations that create chaos. American soldiers dying in countries most Americans can't find on a map. We've become the world's policeman — and the world resents it.
The Solution
Defend America. Stop policing the world. Bring the troops home. Close foreign bases. Build defenses so strong no one dares attack. Declare war only when attacked or facing imminent attack — not for regime change, nation-building, or ideology.
- Defense, not offense: Military exists to defend American territory and citizens
- No permanent foreign bases: Except by treaty renewed every 20 years
- Congress declares war: Not the President, not "authorizations"
- So strong no one dares: Defensive capability that makes attack futile
📚 Education: Service for College
The Problem
$1.7+ trillion in student debt. College costs have risen 1,200%+ since 1980. Degrees that don't lead to jobs. Graduates crushed by debt before they start life. Meanwhile, calls for "free college" just shift the burden to taxpayers with no accountability.
The Solution
Two years of national service = four years of college paid. Military, civilian corps, community service, infrastructure work — choose your path. Complete it, and your education is covered. No service? Pay your own way. Fair exchange, no debt slavery.
- Earned, not entitled: You contribute, then you receive
- Multiple paths: Military, civilian service, community work
- Skin in the game: Service builds investment in the nation
- No debt: Graduate free, ready to start your life
The Complete Platform
Constitution 2.0
A complete rewrite for the modern era. Clear rights, hard limits, actual accountability.
Read it →This Is What We Stand For
Not vague promises. Not focus-grouped slogans. Specific positions with specific reasoning that you can agree with, disagree with, or debate.
We don't expect you to agree with everything. We expect you to know exactly what you're agreeing or disagreeing with.
Your autonomy ends where another's begins.
That's the principle. Everything else follows.