Mission Statement
The Tea Party is against excessive spending and taxation. Our mission is to attract, educate, organize and mobilize our fellow citizens to secure our government to be consistent with our three core values:
Fiscal Responsibility
Constitutionally Limited Government
Free Markets
Fiscal Responsibility: We believe governments should collect taxes and spend public funds only with the consent of the taxpayer. This means that budgets will be balanced. Revenue will equal government expenditures and no money will be borrowed for present or future government spending. No money will be spent for goods and services which can be provided by the public sector, or by charities, as a last resort, by a lower level government.
Constitutionally Limited Government: We are inspired by our founding documents and regard the Constitution of the United States to be the supreme law of the land. Like our founders, we support states’ rights for those powers not expressly stated in the Constitution. As the government is of the people, by the people and for the people, in all others matters we support the personal liberty of the individual, within the law. We reject the idea that the Commerce Clause gives the Federal Government carte blanche right to pass any law as it sees fit. The States are the legitimate authority for all regulations save those regarding national defense, tariffs, and treaties. Particularly onerous are Federal regulations passed on to the states that include no funding for implementation.
Free Markets: A free market is the economic result of personal liberty. Our current government’s interference distorts the free market and inhibits the pursuit of individual and economic liberty. Therefore, we support a return to the free market principles on which this nation was founded and oppose government intervention into the operations of private business.
We urge members to engage fully on the social issues they consider important and the politicians aligned with their beliefs.
