Marion County IL TEA Party: Mission Statement

Mission Statement

Our Mission: Promote the core values of lower taxation, Constitutionally limited government, fiscal responsibility and regulatory freedom, thereby securing the ideals of individual liberty, personal responsibility, and private property rights for all Americans, and creating an environment for a prosperous economy where free markets and entrepreneurship may flourish.

Our goals are to strive to:

1. Educate our members on our Constitution at every opportunity.

2. Inform our members on what our elected leaders are doing every day at the local, state and national levels.

3. Promote honest and qualified candidates to run for office at the local, state and national levels.

4. Demand honesty and accountability from our current elected leaders.

5. Spread our message of limited government and personal responsibility to our community.

Fiscal Responsibility: Fiscal Responsibility by government honors and respects the freedom of the individual to spend the money that is the fruit of their own labor. A constitutionally limited government, designed to protect the blessings of liberty, must be fiscally responsible or it must subject its citizenry to high levels of taxation that unjustly restrict the liberty our Constitution was designed to protect. Such runaway deficit spending as we now see in Washington D.C. compels us to take action as the increasing national debt is a grave threat to our national sovereignty and the personal and economic liberty of future generations.

Constitutionally Limited Government: We, the members of The Marion County Tea Party, are inspired by our founding documents and regard the Constitution of the United States to be the supreme law of the land. We believe that it is possible to know the original intent of the government our founders set forth, and stand in support of that intent. Like the founders, we support states’ rights for those powers not expressly stated in the Constitution. As the government is of the people, by the people and for the people, in all other matters we support the personal liberty of the individual, within the rule of law.

Free Markets: A free market is the economic consequence of personal liberty. The founders believed that personal and economic freedom were indivisible, as do we. Our current government’s interference distorts the free market and inhibits the pursuit of individual and economic liberty. Therefore, we support a return to the free market principles on which this nation was founded and oppose government intervention into the operations of private business.