LPA Mission

LPA Principles

• Opportunity for All: requires a growing economy, a strong education system, and intelligent immigration reform.
• Fairness for All: requires government spending discipline, a simpler tax system, and an end to corporate welfare and cronyism.
• Defending the Vulnerable: requires a trustworthy safety net, encouragement of a culture that promotes earned success, and a more stable economy.
• Security and Safety: requires loyalty to our allies, firmness versus our adversaries, and free and open global trade.
• American Exceptionalism: derives from a belief in family, faith, vocation, community, and equal opportunity.

LPA Policies

1. Economic Prosperity, Full Employment, Rising Wages
   1. Tax reform - flatter rates without special interest breaks will decrease the tax burden and provide economic opportunities for all
   2. Free trade
   3. Stable dollar
2. Reduced Size and Scope of Government
   1. Spending reform
   2. Reforms of Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, and other entitlements
   3. Regulatory reform and restraint
   4. Rewrite or repeal intrusive and obstructive legislation such as the Affordable Care Act, Dodd-Frank Act, and Sarbanes-Oxley Act
3. Strong National Defense
   1. A clear statement of our economic and national security interests
   2. Sufficient defense forces to protect those interests
4. Fidelity to the Constitution
   1. Judges who will defend the original meaning of our Constitution
   2. Separation of powers - to protect individual liberty from an all-powerful government
   3. Federalism - to return to the states moral decisions nationalized by the courts
5. Immigration Reform
   1. Immediate, effective border control and cooperation with Mexico regarding drug cartels
   2. Efficient citizenship process and provision for considerably larger numbers of legal immigrants
   3. Pathway for illegal immigrants to obtain guest worker status and eventual legal residency
   4. Rules should favor productive workers (H-1B Visas) and higher-level students