From: doctor1@cbnewse.cb.att.com (patrick.b.hailey)
Subject: Re: Andre Marrou/Nancy Lord in '92!
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 11:45:24 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.180009.12475@bnlux1.bnl.gov> bam@bnlux1.bnl.gov (Bruce A. Martin) writes:
>In article <rl=mt+b.scotty@netcom.com> scotty@netcom.com (J Scott Peter) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul6.204130.27417@babbage.ece.uc.edu> dhollind@don.ece.uc.edu (David Y Hollinden) writes:
>> [Re Andre Marrous's 10-point plan]
>>>Number one: Repeal the personal income tax and abolish the IRS.
>> ...
>>>Number ten: Privatize education, charitize welfare, and allow a choice in
>>>all matters.
>>
>>These points are are totally impractical for the near future.  The income
>>tax cannot be abolished just like that.  There has to be some sort of
>>gradual and workable plan, 
>When Marrou spoke in NY, a few months ago, he presented a gradual, workable
>plan for doing just that!  Marrou's plan was non-disruptive, but would not
>take as many years as you think.
>I can't quote exact details, but here are a few of the points I recall.

Maybe this will help?:

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SAYS REPEAL PERSONAL INCOME TAX AND ABOLISH I.R.S.

     PHILADELPHIA -- "The personal income tax is the most hated tax in U.S.
history and should be repealed," the Libertarian Party candidate for
President, former Alaska State Representative Andre Marrou (AHN'-dray
mah-ROO'), declared Thursday, March 26, at 12 noon in Philadelphia.
     Standing in front of the Internal Revenue Service building and within
sight of Independence Hall, Marrou announced his Six Step Program for
abolishing the IRS: "First, we repeal the income tax; second, we abolish
the IRS; third, we release all tax protesters from prison; fourth, we sell
the IRS buildings; fifth, we burn all tax records; and sixth, we declare a
national holiday."
     Noting that April 13 is Thomas Jefferson's birthday, Marrou suggested
that it be celebrated annually as Tax Freedom Day.
     "The IRS is the most powerful, and the most hated and feared agency in
the government. This isn't Eastern Europe or the Soviet Union. This is
America, the land of the free and the home of the brave. We shouldn't have
to hate and fear our government," Marrou said.
     "The personal income tax brings in only 37% of federal revenues,
leaving 63% to operate the government," he pointed out. "How far back in
history do we have to go to find a Federal government that is 37% smaller
than the government in 1992?  To 1917?  1941?  1960?  We have to go back
only five years to 1987."
     "If we just get rid of the excessive government that the Republicans
and Democrats have given us over the last five years, we could set
ourselves free from the income tax," he added.
     Once this flow of taxpayer money is stopped, the President and
Congress will be forced to reduce the government, Marrou explained.  "When
we stop replacing Federal bureaucrats, who have an attrition rate of 7%-10%
per year, we could reduce the Federal bureaucracy by 28%-40% in four years.
When elected President, I will rescind oppressive regulations that this
army of bureaucrats has written."
     Also, Marrou said he would reduce the government by ceasing all
foreign aid and bringing all troops back to defend the U.S. "Not only would
this save taxpayers' money, but we'd have a better defense because troops
would be here and would spend all their money in our economy."
     Marrou called for an end to sugar and milk supports, which drive
prices up, and "all tax financed subsidies to harmful drugs like tobacco."
     "Sugar in the United States is about triple the world market price. 
Milk is about double the world price. The people this hurts most are poor
people with children," he said.
     After leaving Philadelphia, Marrou will campaign this weekend in
Oklahoma, traveling Friday, March 27, to Oklahoma City and speaking
Saturday, March 28, at the Oklahoma Libertarian Party state convention in
Guthrie.
     The Libertarian candidate for Vice President, attorney and physician
Nancy Lord, will campaign Thursday and Friday, March 26 and 27, in
Wilmington, Delaware.
     Marrou, 53, lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is a commercial real
estate broker. He was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in
1984, serving from 1985 to 1987. Dr. Lord, 40, lives in Atlanta, Georgia,
and is a practicing attorney and a medical doctor.
     Marrou and Dr. Lord have already qualified to be on the ballot in at
least 24 states. The Libertarian Party is petitioning for all 50 states and
the District of Columbia and is on schedule toward that goal.
     Marrou won an upset victory shortly after midnight on February 18 when
he received 11 of the 31 votes in the town of Dixville Notch, the first
place to close its polls in the New Hampshire primary.
     The Libertarian Party is America's third largest and fastest growing
political party. Libertarians believe "That government is best which
governs least." The party supports civil liberties, a free market economy,
and a non-interventionist foreign policy.

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