Antelope Valley Libertarian party
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political identity. Choose Y when you agree with a statement; M for Maybe, Sometimes or Need-More-Information; or choose N for No. ARE YOU A SELF-GOVERNOR ON PERSONAL ISSUES? Y __ M __ N __ Military service should be voluntary. (No draft) Y __ M __ N __ Government should not control radio, TV, the press or the Internet. Y __ M __ N __ Repeal regulations on sex for consenting adults. Y __ M __ N __ Drug laws do more harm than good. Repeal them. Y __ M __ N __ Let peaceful people cross borders freely. ____ My PERSONAL self-government score: add 20 for Y, 10 for M, 0 for N. ARE YOU A SELF-GOVERNOR ON ECONOMIC ISSUES? Y __ M __ N __ Businesses and farms should operate without govt. subsidies. Y __ M __ N __ People are better off with free trade than with tariffs. Y __ M __ N __ Minimum wage laws cause unemployment. Repeal them. Y __ M __ N __ End taxes. Pay for services with user fees. Y __ M __ N __ All foreign aid should be privately funded. ____ My ECONOMIC self-government score: add 20 for Y, 10 for M, 0 for N. |
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HOW TO USE THE SELF-GOVERNMENT COMPASS Mark your PERSONAL score on the left and your ECONOMIC score on the right. Then, follow the grid lines (rows of dots) until they meet at your political identity! An example for someone who scored 80 on Personal and 60 on Economic is indicated with an asterisk (*). The compass measures self-government. Liberals value freedom of expression. Conservatives value free enterprise. Libertarians value both. Authoritarians are against both. POLITICAL PHILOSOPHIES * Libertarians are self-governors in both personal and economic matters. They believe government's only purpose is to protect people from coercion and violence. They value individual responsibility, and tolerate economic and social diversity. * Left-liberals prefer self-government in personal matters and central decision-making on economics. They want government to serve the disadvantaged in the name of fairness. Leftists tolerate social diversity, but work for economic equality. * Centrists favor selective government intervention and emphasize practical solutions to current problems. They tend to keep an open mind on new issues. Many centrists feel that government serves as a check on excessive liberty. * Right-conservatives prefer self-government on economic issues, but want official standards in personal matters. They want the government to defend the community from threats to its moral fiber. * Authoritarians want government to advance society and individuals through expert central planning. They often doubt whether self-government is practical. Left-authoritarians are also called socialists, while fascists are right-authoritarians. |
| This chart (sometimes called "Nolan chart") and questions are © 1997 by the Advocates for Self-Government, Inc., telephone 1-800-932-1776, website www.self-gov.org;additional info from other sources. |
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