Issues
Property Rights
he Founding Fathers believed property rights are essential to the enjoyment and security of all our rights. This was not just a fashionable opinion of the time, but the statement of a transcendent principle that is true in all times and all places. To the extent we water down property rights, we jeopardize all our liberties. According to James Madison, the Father of Constitution, property rights included not just material things we owned such as land, but our beliefs, creative faculties, safety in our person – our very liberty: “As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.” This understanding is at the heart of the California Homeowners Association mission.
Government exists to secure and protect our property rights, but in recent years liberals and extreme environmentalist have been using government to assault those rights. This undermines the broad spectrum of our freedoms. The erosion may be gradual and delayed in its manifestation, but it is no less real.
In California, our property rights are being smothered beneath a bewildering, ever-growing thicket of regulations foisted on us by liberal legislators and hostile bureaucrats. The California Homeowners Association pushes back against this assault by supporting candidates and cause who understand how vital strong property rights are to a free and prosperous society. CHA opposes with equal vigor politicians who are part of progressive government’s ongoing aggression against this bedrock right.
Taxes
Government is necessary to our enjoyment of ordered liberty, and taxes are necessary to the functioning of government, and our Constitution provides government with the power to levy them. However, as with all else regarding government. taxation must be just: it must be constrained to no more than is necessary to support for the proper operation of limited government.
The history of government is a chronology of the quest to acquire an ever growing share of the people’s wealth – and there is no more vivid illustration of this truth than the State of California. The liberals who dominate state government possess an insatiable appetite for other people’s money. Through boom and bust, recession and expansion, they boost spending and then complain they lack sufficient tax revenue to pay for this never-ending spending binge.
Wealth isn’t money – properly understood, wealth is choices. Unjust taxation restricts our choices as free people, and diminishes our liberty. It saps vitality from our economy and in so doing reduces our ability to rise and engage in the “pursuit of happiness.” The state’s sluggish economic growth rate is pale reflection of the California dream. Thanks to our heavy state tax burden, the California taxpayers must work longer than residents of all but three other states just to pay their total tax bill.
Every election, the CHA fights to change this dynamic by supporting candidates who understand the direct link between lower taxes and higher economic growth and job creation.
Crime
The California Homeowners Association’s mission is to support candidates and causes who share our convictions about law and order:
* Repealing or greatly reforming the misguided Prop. 47 and Prop. 57 which have led to an increase in crime across California.
- Corrections reform to reduce the cost of prison operations while increasing their capacity for incarcerating dangerous criminals.
- Restoring the death penalty as a deterrent by expediting carrying out death penalty convictions within the framework of common sense due process protections.
- Re-establishing California’s landmark “Three Strikes” law for violent and repeat offenders.
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