Brookfield Republicans - Town Committee
These principles serve as a guide to Brookfield GOP decision making:
SMALLER GOVERNMENT
• The proper role of government is to provide critical functions that can not be performed by individuals or private organizations.
• The proper function of government is to do for the people those things that have to be done but cannot be done as well by individuals.
• The most effective government is government closest to the people.
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
• We cannot raise people’s level of self esteem with a government hand-out; only through hard work and self-improvement can ones self-esteem be raised.
• We should protect and maintain America’s natural resources for future generations, while wisely using it to eliminate America’s dependence upon foreign and often unfriendly sources.
• The welfare state is an abomination. The attitude of self-entitlement at someone else’s expense cannot be justified.
• Charity comes best from the heart of individuals and cannot be forced or coerced via taxation and regulation.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
• The best government is that which governs least. Those who govern are given the privilege to do so only with the just consent of the governed in a government of laws and not of men.
• Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are essential to our existence. For this reason, we support equal opportunities not equal results.
RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL
• People have the right to live free, and with rights come responsibilities.
• Public policy should encourage families and empower their efforts to provide for their own health, safety, education, moral fortitude and personal wealth.
• Each American should be free from government interference to choose how to educate, embrace faith and raise a family
FREE ENTERPRISE
• The American way of life embodies capitalism, free enterprise, entrepreneurism driven by inventiveness and creativity.
• Small business is the backbone of the United States economy and must remain unfettered from intrusive government interference. Government cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
• Government cannot help the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. Government cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.