Regarding Government and Taxes

Regarding taxes, government should operate according to the following principles:

• Government should be limited to only those services that the people cannot provide for themselves, either individually or through the private sector;
• Government should provide those services in the most efficient and economical way possible;
• Government should take advantage of every opportunity to fund those services with non-tax revenue (user fees, etc.);
• Government should collect no more tax dollars from the people than is necessary to fund the provision of those services;
• When ad valorem (property) taxes are used to fund government services, equally-situated property owners must be treated equally.