Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto (31 page)

     
1. Comply with the laws you pass, 173–75

     
2. Stop spending money we don’t have, 175–77

     
3. Scrap the tax code, 177–78

     
4. Put patients in charge, 179–80

     
5. Choice, not conscription, 181–83

     
6. End insider bailouts, 184–87

     
7. Let parents decide, 187–89

     
8. Respect my privacy, 189–90

     
9. End the Fed monopoly, 190–92

     
10. Avoid entangling alliances, 193–95

     
11. Don’t take people’s stuff, 196–99

     
12. Defend your right to know, 199–204

unemployment, 104, 105–6, 109

unintended consequences, 134

UPS, 87

USA Freedom Act, 190

Verizon, 130

Veterans Health Administration, 93

Veuger, Stan, 62

Vidal, Gore, 43

Vitter, David, 88–89

volunteerism, 13, 22

wage and price controls, 84–85, 86, 179

Walesa, Lech, 26, 148

Walgreens, 87

Walker, Toby Marie, 61

Wall Street, bailout of, 69, 213, 216

Walters, Johnnie Mac, 66

war:

     
and accountability, 193, 194

     
declaration of, 193–94

     
and entangling alliances, 195

     
opportunity cost of, 195

     
and presidential powers, 193–94, 213

War on Terror, 194

War Powers Act, 193

Washington, D.C.:

     
compromise valued over principle in, 47

     
exclusive club of, 151

     
special interests in, 69–71

     
spinning in, 64

Washington, George, 8, 55, 193, 223, 225–26

Washington Post,
88

Watergate, 72, 100

Werfel, Danny, 70

Whig Party, 121

Wilkins, William, 64

work:

     
hard, 16–20

     
as opportunity, 18–19

World War II, 84

Wyden, Ron, 131

Yoho, Ted, 157

Young Americans for Liberty, 149

young people:

     
attitudes toward government, 108, 118–19

     
and debt, 101–3, 104, 106–7

     
and education costs, 106–7

     
and entitlements, 182

     
and health care, 86–87, 100–101, 103–4, 109–15, 117–18, 180

     
and the military, 117

     
stereotypes of, 115, 119

     
and unemployment, 104, 105–6, 109

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

MATT KIBBE
is the president and CEO of FreedomWorks, a national grassroots organization that serves citizens in their fight for more individual freedom and less government control. An economist by training, Kibbe is a well-respected policy expert, bestselling author, and a regular guest on CNN, Fox News, The Blaze TV, and MSNBC. He also serves as Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Austrian Economic Center in Vienna, Austria. Kibbe is author of the national bestseller
Hostile Takeover: Resisting
Centralized Government’s Stranglehold on America
(2012) and coauthor of
Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party
Manifesto
(2010). Terry, his awesome wife of twenty-seven years, takes no responsibility for his many mistakes or frequent embarrassments.

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