Our Mission:
The impetus for the Tea Party movement is excessive government spending and taxation. The mission of the movement is to attract, educate, organize, and mobilize our fellow citizens to secure public policy consistent with our three core values of Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government and Free Markets. We endeavor to reverse deficit spending and the concentration of power in central government, in order to preserve states’ rights and individual liberty for future generations.
Core Values:
Constitutionally Limited Government
We, the members of Whidbey Island Tea Party, are inspired by our founding documents of our great country, and regard the Constitution of the United States to be the supreme law of the land. We believe that it is possible to know the original intent of the government our founders set forth, and stand in support of that intent. Like the founders, we support states' rights for those powers not expressly stated in the Constitution. As the government is of the people, by the people and for the people, in all other matters we support the personal liberty of the individual, within the rule of law.
Fiscal Responsibility
Fiscal responsibility by government honors and respects the freedom of the individual to spend the money that is the fruit of one's own labor. Our governments' actions have resulted in onerous burdens of taxation: this increasing taxation unjustly restricts the very liberty limited government is designed to protect and abrogates the rights the Constitution is designed to secure. Such runaway deficit spending as we now see in Washington D.C. and in our own Washington state, compels us to take action as the increasing national debt is a grave threat to our national sovereignty and the personal and economic liberty of future generations. We therefore demand from our governments commitments to reduced spending, and balanced budgets without the creation of further debt.
Free Markets
A free market is the economic consequence of personal liberty. The founders believed that personal and economic freedom were indivisible, as do we. Our current government's interference distorts the free market and inhibits the pursuit of individual and economic liberty. Therefore, we support a return to the free market principles on which this nation was founded and oppose government intervention into the operations of private business.
