Principles of Government

• Advocate the thorough education of our children
  
• Favor sound fiscal decisions, avoiding, as much as possible, future government indebtedness or need for tax increases
  
• Support private property rights
  
• Support traditional hunting and fishing access for sportsmen
  
• Support an individual’s right to have a firearm to defend oneself and one’s family
  
• Encourage the strengthening of families
  
• Protect children and vulnerable adults
  
• Favor careful development of natural resources in ways that keep our air and water clean.
  
• Favor laws that acknowledge the unique challenges of small business owners
  
• Oppose the use of eminent domain by governments to confiscate private property merely for purposes of increasing tax revenues
  
• Oppose the “itch to regulate”
  • Favor making as few new laws as possible
  • Oppose excessive expansion of government
  • Oppose wasting taxpayer dollars by spending time passing frivolous legislation and resolutions
    
• Respect distinct roles of legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government
  
• Favor local control