This week, the Amarillo Pioneer will be bringing our readers interviews with a few of the candidates for the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination. The Libertarian Party will select its candidates for President and Vice President in a nomination vote this weekend and the party’s ticket will be one of four eligible to appear on the Texas ballot in November.
Libertarian presidential candidate Dan Behrman wants you to know that taxation is theft. He wants Americans to hear this message so much that he even adopted the phrase as his nickname.
Behrman has positioned himself as one of the top tier candidates the the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination with a focus on issues like taxes. He says his campaign is built around the idea that Americans should be freer from government than they are today.
“I’m sick of the government and all the damage its programs are doing to people,” Behrman said.
Why is the taxation is theft message important? Behrman says it should be important to voters because it deals with the very root cause of the programs Americans oppose.
“Most of the the reasons we have programs we don’t like are because of taxes,” Behrman said. “We have lost the power to say we are not going to pay for that program.”
He says as President, he would eliminate taxes, in line with his opposition to forcing Americans to pay for programs they do not support. Beyond the issue of taxes, Behrman says he wants to end the drug war and get people out of debt, including everything from student loan debt to credit card debt. He says focusing on the debt issue will allow Americans to keep more of what they earn.
“We want to get people to a point where they keep what they earn,” Behrman said.
On the issue of the coronavirus, Behrman says as President, he would work to make tests more accessible and available and would stop collection of federal taxes in the current economy.
At the end of the day, Behrman says his entire platform comes down to the issue of giving Americans more liberty from government.
“I have no interest in becoming king of the United States.,” Behrman said. “I’m just interested in returning freedom to the American people.”
For more information about Behrman, visit Behrman2020.com.