SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tea Party Patriots, Limited Government, Responsible Government
16 Dec 2020
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The tea party patriots mission is to restore america"s founding principles of fiscal responsibility. Fiscal responsibility means not overspending and no burdening our children and grandchildren with our bills. In the words of thomas jefferson: the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity (is) swindling futurity on a large scale. A more fiscally responsible government will take fewer taxes from our paychecks. Constitutionally limited government means power resides with the people and not with the government. Governing should be done at the most local level possible where it can be held accountable. America"s founders believed that government power should be limited, enumerated, and constrained by our constitution. The american people make this country great, not our government. Free market economics made america an economic superpower that for at least two centuries provided subsequent generations of americans more opportunities and higher standards of living.
