2008 PLATFORM The Prohibition Party The platform committee consisted of: Gene Amondson, Leroy Pletten, Seth Hinshaw, Jim Hedges, June Griffin, and JB Griffin (the convention sitting as a committee of the whole.)
Preamble We, the delegates to the Prohibition National Convention, assembled at Indianapolis, Indiana, September 13 and 14, 2007, recognizing Almighty God as the Source of all just government, and with faith in the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ, promise that, if our nominees are chosen to administer the affairs of our nation, states, or communities, we will seek to serve the needs and to preserve the prerogatives and guaranteed Constitutional freedoms of the citizens of The United States of America.
Constitutional Government and States Rights
We affirm our loyalty to the Constitution of The United States of America We support the entire Bill of Rights. We support the integrity of the three branches of government. The several states which created the federal government have had many of their rights usurped by all three branches of that government. We will take strong action to preserve and/or restore the states’ Constitutional rights.
Foreign Affairs We will conduct foreign affairs with the preservation of American liberty and independence as our chief objective. Except for emergency humanitarian help, foreign aid should be ended. We favor free trade only on a truly reciprocal basis among equals. We oppose ‘most favored nation’ status for nations with a his- tory of human rights violations. We are opposed to the interference of America in the sovereignty of other nations.
Taxation and Spending Some 40% of Americans’ earnings are taken by government taxation, yet the federal government is still adding hundreds of billions of dollars to our national debt each year. We favor: (1) A balanced budget (2) A limit on the taxing powers of Congress (3) Restoration of the independent Treasury (4) Cutting off funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (5) Ending ‘death taxes’ completely (6) Prohibiting the use of eminent domain to benefit an individual person or a corporation (7) Minimizing taxes which threaten private ownership of land and real estate (8) Emphasizing excise taxes for the financing of government
A Free Economy We support the free enterprise system, and we support the prosecution of irres- ponsible and/or deceptive business practices.
Monetary Policy The Constitution provides that Congress shall have the power to coin money and to regulate its value. Therefore, we call upon Congress to terminate the Federal Reserve System for the purpose of reducing the national debt and to withdraw The United States from the World Bank.
Labor and Management Individual Rights We support the equality of treatment of all
American citizens before the law. We call upon Congress to take
action to end all discriminatory quotas in em- ployment, education, and
housing. All political subdivisions should be apportioned without
reference to the race or religion of the citizenry. Right-to-Life We recognize that, according to the Constitution,
‘no person’ (including those unborn) ‘shall be deprived of life, liberty,
or property without due process of law.’ We support banning ‘partial
birth’ abortions. Military Preparedness Immigration We oppose the massive illegal immigration now
tolerated by our government. We support deportation of illegal
entrants. We propose to apply diplomatic pres- sure on those nations
to our south to improve the economic and social condi- tions which are at
the root of this mass migration. POW/MIA and Veterans Concerning the national disgrace of the
abandonment of POW’s / MIA’s, we will work co-operatively with all
concerned to recover all unreturned POWs and MIA’s, their personal
effects, and records, from wherever located. We favor full benefits,
including medical care, for all veterans. Education We support excellence in education and the raising
of academic standards. We support the awarding of school vouchers to
all students, like scholarships or grants, to then be used at the schools
of their choice. We support the right for private schools and home
schooling. Religious Liberty We support the right of individuals to believe,
fellowship, worship, evangelise, educate, and establish religious
institutions in accordance with their beliefs. We oppose
discrimination against religious schools, broadcasters, and other
religious groups and individuals at the hands of federal, state, and local
branches of government.
Church and State We support the right to
prayer and Bible reading in schools and other public institutions.
We favor tax-exemption for all non-profit religious institutions,
including parsonages, church publishing houses, and religious
schools. Public Morality We favor stronger and more vigorous enforcement of
laws against the sale of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products,
against gambling, illegal drugs, pornography, and commercialized vice, and
we will seek to provide moral leadership. We oppose the promotion of
unnatural lifestyles. We oppose state lotteries and other legalized
gambling. Ballot Law Reform Social Security We support reform of the Social Security System
by: (1) Placing the system
on a sound actuarial basis; (2) Restoring Social
Security to its original purpose as a retirement plan by placing the
Medical and Medicaid programs in a separate system; (3) Lifting all
restrictions on the amount of money Social Security retirement
beneficiaries may earn. Agriculture We will adopt agricultural policies which assist
family farmers in staying in farming. We oppose payment of
government subsidies to agribusiness. We favor repeal of predatory
tax levies and artificially inflated land values placed on farms adjacent
to urban areas which tend to drive the farmer off his land. Public Health We favor continued prohibition of such harmful
drugs as heroin, LSD, cocaine, and marijuana. Because of the
well-documented deadly effects of tobacco products, we oppose the
manufacture, advertising, and sale of tobacco products, and we op- pose
continued government subsidies for the tobacco industry. We oppose
our government coercing other countries to accept our tobacco
products. We favor maintaining a level of taxes on tobacco equal to
the social costs of repairing the damage caused by tobacco. We favor government
action to discover and implement medical remedies for AIDS; we urge the
government to combat the immoral sexual conduct and the illegal drug usage
which are responsible for most American AIDS cases. Until the liquor traffic
is eradicated, we call for the alcoholic beverage industry and its
products to be placed under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug
Administration. The Environment Second Amendment Rights We recognize the fundamental need of Second
Amendment rights to guard against tyrannical government and for personal
protection against violent crime. We support the Constitutional
right of law-abiding citizens to own and use guns. The Alcohol Problem Alcohol is still a major narcotic drug problem in
The United States. It is a major cause of poverty, traffic crashes,
broken homes, juvenile and adult crime, physical and sexual abuse,
political corruption, wasted man- power, disability, and premature death
We favor maintaining the nation-wide legal drinking age of 21, and we
favor establishing a level of taxes on alcohol equal to the social costs
of repairing the damage caused by alcohol. Our program of
leadership, legislation, and education – including publicizing the
scientific basis of the correlation between tobacco and alcohol use – will
result in a change in societal attitudes toward supporting prohibition of
the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverage
products. "Whatever
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