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*Promoting these ideals among Party officials and Party Organizations;
*Indentifying and supporting candidates sympathetic with the ideals;
*Promoting caucus membership among Party registrants, officials
and office holders.
The RLC seeks to support libertarian and conservative candidates who favor limited government in the Republican Party. The RLC has no plan to develop a comprehensive document outlining RLC views on every issue. There is, however a list of RLC principles that emphasize limited government across the board.
Free Enterprise:
The well-being of Americans results directly from the economic efforts of free men and women. The advent and growth of the welfare state, with its attndant heavy taxation and pervasive controls, has greatly impaired the country's economic growth. The RLC believes that the good intentions of the welfare state have actually produced only bitterness and economic stagnation. We call for the phase out, as rapidly as possible in view of our commitment to avoid needless human suffering, of the Federal and State apparatus of mandatory social institutions.
Personal Freedom:
No less than economic liberty is the right of every American to personal liberty. As a matter of principle, as well as accomplishing the defueling of the engines of social conflict and discontent, we believe it is vital to repeal all laws limiting the right of an idividual to act as he/she so chooses-so long as he/she does not use force or fraud.
Protecting Individual Rights:
The most vital function of the government is to protect and defend its citizens from threats posed by foreign governments and opportunistic groups. To that end the RLC supports the maintenance of the means to ward off and defeat any possible foreign threat to the lives, liberty and peaceful stability of every person within the borders of this nation.
In addition the RLC also supports: lower and fewer taxes, the right to privacy, the right to keep and bear arms, balanced budgets through spending cuts, education choice, freedom of speech, protection of property rights, market based healthcare, alternatives to the drug war, an all-volunteer armed forces, term limits, sound monetary policies, deregulation, the phase out of foreign aid, ending federal welfare, private options to Social Security, free trade and privatization of government functions.
