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WALTER HAYES'
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
Below are the principles that guide my decisions.
KEY PRINCIPLES
Unalienable Rights
I believe that our rights come from God and the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are unalienable and cannot be legitimately granted or rescinded by people or the government.
Taxes
The current tax system is abusive in nature and penalizes the creation of wealth. While our governments have the right and ability to levy taxes, taxes should be levied in such away as to not prohibit or stunt growth or penalize the creation of wealth.
Judeo-Christian Foundation
The foundation of our government came from long held moral values, sermons preached from the pulpit, along with scripture itself from the Holy Bible.
The 2nd Amendment
Shall not be infringed should be read and understood. I believe in the right to keep and bear arms. My castle, ultimately, is secure in the same way our country is, peace through strength.
The Sanctity of Life
Life begins at conception. The preborn child is entitled to protection for it's life every bit as much as an adult. Under the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution along with any number of statutes at the Federal, State, and local levels, that life deserves protection along all the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Economy
The most powerful economy in world has been and is the free enterprise system. This system should be free of regulation as much as is possible. Only where men insist that they be regulated by their greed should government interfere.
Government
James Adams said it best, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people: it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." I believe in limited government of the people, by the people, and for the people. The government's job is not to give rights but rather to protect them. We must have a people and leaders that believe in almighty God and the Constitution of the United State of America in order to preserve the greatness that our ancestors saw in this country. Not perfection, but the pursuit of better, for all people.
The Founding Fathers purposely stayed away from democracy and chose a Constitutional Republic as our form of government. This government works, when we abide by and attempts to move us away from a Republican form of government to democracy should be rebuffed. As Woodrow Wilson wrote, there is little difference at it's core between democracy and socialism. We want, nor can we stand for either.
States Rights
The 10th Amendment states that unless rights are expressly granted to the Federal Government via the Constitution of the United States, those rights and power remain with the States and the people. The 17th Amendment should be repealed and return the balance of power to what was intended where the house is the house of the people and represents them while the Senate is the house of the States and we go away from the Super house that was created with the 17th Amendment.
Education
Education should be local, always local and free, to the extent possible, of governmental regulation.
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