Taxes
Simply put, taxes are much too high. Some politicians want you to believe that the government has a right to your money – that what you work so hard to earn somehow belongs instead to the government, and you should feel lucky to have what little they allow you to keep. This is completely wrong; your earnings are your property! No one has the right to decide for you that you don’t really need your property and should therefore relinquish it. Your paycheck is no exception. When our government respects the limits placed on it by the Constitution, the people will no longer have this heavy tax burden.
Gun Control
The founders of this country recognized the people’s right to protect their property, their family, and their lives. To exercise that right, the founders understood that the people would need to arm themselves, and that the government should not interfere with their ability to do so. The same is true today: as long as there are criminals threatening law-abiding citizens with theft, injury, and death – and such criminals will never have a shortage of weapons – we would do the citizens a lethal injustice by disarming them.
Freedom of Speech
Americans have always been proud to have a government that respects their right to say whatever they believe, even when their statements are critical of the government itself. But we need to guard that liberty jealously, because as history has taught us, the corruption of power always leads to the erosion of the people’s rights. Even today, in the name of “political correctness,” “campaign finance reform,” and “homeland security,” our freedom of speech is attacked in subtle ways. America should never be a country where we hear the phrase “you’re not allowed to say that anymore!”
Life and Liberty
The right to life is the most fundamental right there is; without it, no other rights matter at all. People should be free to choose whatever they wish to do with their lives, but only insofar as they don't interfere with the rights of others. The government’s most basic responsibility is to promote justice by protecting the people’s rights against violence. For this reason, the essential right of the innocent unborn to live must be defended absolutely.
War
The Constitution does not authorize endless “police actions” all over the world, nor invasions of foreign nations in enforcement of UN policy. War is not a decision Americans should take lightly: a single human life is an inestimable price to pay, and in war, the toll in human life is counted in the thousands. American soldiers are honorable, brave, and heroic patriots, always willing to answer their country's call of duty. They should not be sent to sacrifice their lives unnecessarily, and never at the whim of an individual or a small group of people. The Constitution requires that war be waged only when authorized by the people, through the declaration of their elected representatives in the Congress.
The Free Market
A free society depends on a free market. The natural operation of supply, demand, capital, and competition has always been the key to a higher standard of living, for entire nations. These market forces are the built-in stability of a free economy, and they guarantee productivity, efficiency, improvement, and the satisfaction of everyone involved. The state is an institution of force, taking people’s money without the qualification of a well-done service in return. For this reason the government is by definition a kind of monopoly, in every industry it invades, and this engenders laziness, inefficiency, stagnation, and the general dissatisfaction of everyone. The government ought to respect the people’s right to invest their time and money as they choose, and it can start by returning to its Constitutional limits.
Privacy
Americans should have full confidence and assurance in their right to privacy. If we are to live with the kind of liberty our forebears died for, we must assert our right to be free from government harassment, spying, and invasion into our personal lives. Your bank statements, your telephone conversations, and your email messages are not public property! Furthermore, the way you spend your leisure time, the manner in which you worship, and raise your children, and eat your dinner, are so far from being the business of the government that it seems absurd to have to mention them. Yet in a police state all of those things are subject to investigation and regulation, lest ordinary citizens put their individual preferences ahead of the interests of the state. Our society is still one of the freest in the world, but we’re moving in the wrong direction. A constitutionally limited government will have much greater respect for the people’s right to their private lives.