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Jupiter, FL 33478
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Chairman:
David C Crowell
Treasurer:
Lois McLain
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For Immediate Release:
18 September 1999
US Taxpayers Party Changes its Name
Up and coming national political party says name better represents their policy approach
After years of debate within the party, delegates of the U.S. Taxpayers Party, one of only five federally recognized national political parties, voted to change the party name at their recent National Convention held in St. Louis, Missouri. The new name "Constitution Party" was adopted overwhelmingly as it was felt to better represent their policy approach.
"Anyone who knows much about us at all knows that we are anything but a one-issue party", stated Jim Clymer, the Party’s newly elected National Chairman. "But when it comes to the issue of less government spending and less taxes, we are certainly the ‘real deal’. While the two major parties discuss whether or not to give the American people a pathetic 1% tax cut over the next 10 years, our approach goes right to the heart of the matter. The Federal government has no legal right to do anything unless specifically authorized by the Constitution. We will see massive decreases in government spending of taxpayer dollars by returning the size and scope of the federal government to its already mandated Constitutional boundaries. Along with this, we would replace the present tax system with a new one that simply does not include income tax at all. When it comes to federal taxes, there would be no income tax (fairer, flatter or otherwise), no general sales tax, no estate tax, no gas tax, and no IRS, no reason to file forms. Your personal financial information would return to being what it should be, private information protected by the fourth amendment. But returning to the Constitution will have a much broader positive effect than taxes and spending alone."
"That’s right", agreed Howard Phillips, the Constitution Party’s presidential nominee for the 2000 elections. "Our approach is so very simple. If the federal government were presently adhering to the Constitution it would not be in the business of trying to influence the education processes in our local schools as there is no Constitutional provision for them to be in the ‘education business’ at all. It would not be taking billions of our hard-earned dollars, and giving them away to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. This money, which is ours, not theirs, would normally go to put bread on our families tables, or we could personally choose to give it to others in need in our communities. Instead it is going to bail out international bankers and foreign governments. This is unconstitutional."
"If the federal government were adhering to the Constitution, there would be no legal abortion in the United States", Phillips continued. "The Constitution commands that no person ‘shall be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law’. If civil government will not stand up and protect the lives of the most innocent and helpless of us all, it lacks moral authority. We can’t do anything to bring back the 35 million little children whose lives have been terminated by abortion since Roe v. Wade. We can do something about the future by deciding to return to the Constitution which will restore, practically speaking, fundamental legal protection to not only little pre-born children, but to all people regardless of race, sex, class, religion or age. This is not something we need to implement legislatively; it is already there. It is simply something that must be enforced: The Constitution of the United States of America. That’s why we chose the new name ‘Constitution Party’ as it helps people to realize how simple, yet powerful this approach is to dealing with the mess in Washington."
Phillips won the presidential nomination of the Constitution Party on September 4, by a 500-88 margin. Syndicated columnist Joseph Sobran was nominated by acclamation to be the Party’s Vice Presidential candidate. Sobran is widely respected for his wit, passion, and Constitutional expertise.
Howard Phillips is chairman of the Conservative Caucus (1974) and founder of the U.S. Taxpayers Party (1992). In the Nixon administration as Director of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity, he resigned when President Nixon reneged on his commitment to veto further funding of Lyndon Johnson’s "Great Society" programs. Starting in 1974 he mobilized opposition to the Panama Canal treaties, the SALT II arms control treaties, NAFTA, the World Trade Organization, and federal funding of left-wing activism. He is a graduate of Harvard College (1962) where he was twice elected president of the Harvard Student Council. In 1964 at the age of 23, he was elected Chairman of the 550 member Republican City Committee of Boston. Phillips and his wife Peggy reside in Fairfax County, Virginia and have six children ranging in age from 13 to 34 and twelve grandchildren. He has twice been nominated as the USTP candidate for President.
Founded in 1992, the Party achieved ballot access in 39 states in 1996 and is expected to achieve ballot access in all 50 states for the 2000 elections. The party is known for its focus on limiting the federal government to its Constitutional boundaries and returning our nation’s legal system back to its biblical foundations.
The Party's national Web site can be found at www.constitutionparty.org.
Date: September 18, 1999
Press Contact: Greg Moeller 515-733-9800
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