Tertium Quids is an independent, nonpartisan, issue advocacy organization that promotes legislative efforts to expand individual opportunity and free markets, while reducing the size, role, and cost of government in Virginia.

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Through grassroots education and mobilization, as well as direct contact with local and state officeholders, Tertium Quids redefines the parameters of the public debate in favor of individual liberty, dynamic entrepreneurial capitalism, private property, the rule of law, and constitutionally limited government.

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Tertium Quids, Latin for "third way" or "third entity," is composed of activists across Virginia whose loyalty and commitment are to the founding principles of our republic, rather than to party politics.

 

 

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This week’s

Freedom & Prosperity Radio program

Angela Logomasini, Ph.D., senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, exposes what she heard when she attended the taxpayer-funded Alcohol Policy 16 conference.  Billed as a conference to discuss “the avoidance of alcohol-related problems using public policy strategies,” instead the symposium mocked the alcohol industry’s efforts to promote individual responsibility and promoted government restrictions on individual choice and freedom.

In fact, when lobbying in favor of taxes and laws to restrict the public’s access to alcohol, one speaker, former U.S. National Institutes of Health employee Robert Denniston, suggested the issue should be framed to liken the “alcohol industry” to mosquitoes carrying a dangerous virus.  Just more junk science being regurgitated by people who are not scientists, while the taxpayers pick up the tab for their get-togethers.

Angela Logomasini, Ph.D., pt. 1                         Angela Logomasini, Ph.D., pt. 2

John Taylor, president of the Virginia Institute for Public Policy, reviews the last several weeks which have been particularly unkind to the Obama administration.  From gun control, to immigration, to Radical Islam again rearing its ugly head in the U.S., to infanticide/Planned Parenthood, President Obama just can’t seem to get a break.  Oh, fiddle-faddle!

John Taylor, pt. 1                         John Taylor, pt. 2

John Taylor, pt. 3

 

 

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TAKE THE PLEDGE...

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...GET YOUR BUMPER STICKER

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Tertium Quids announces a new grassroots campaign to return the citizens of Virginia to their rightful role as Sovereigns (remember We the People?), and to return our government to the Founders’ vision of a limited state.

 

In the past, there have been a number of attempts to gain a politician’s pledge not to raise taxes.  These attempts have had limited success for one very important reason:  politicians lie.  Politicians are more than happy to take a pledge or endorse your issue without any expectation whatsoever of being bound by it.

 

Tertium Quids’ RAISE MY TAXES, LOSE MY VOTE campaign is different in that we are not asking politicians to do anything.  Our pledge is for the people…

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*  people who understand that it is hard work, not entitlements, that brings success;

*   people who understand that it is savings, not spending, that ensures prosperity;

*   people who understand that it is the entrepreneur, not the bureaucrat, who creates jobs and economic growth;

*   people who understand that it is morally reprehensible to enjoy current benefits while passing the costs of those benefits on to our children and grandchildren;

*   people who understand that we can no longer tolerate intellectually bankrupt politicians whose one-step thinking process always leads them to the conclusion that more government spending and higher taxes are the only answers to every problem;

*   people who understand that a nation’s wealth is built over many generations, but can be squandered in a decade.

 

If you are fed up, if you are willing to fight for future generations instead of plundering them, and if you are made of the same steel as your ancestors who fought for Virginia and the nation, then we invite you to sign the pledge that you will not vote for any politician who votes, or who promises to vote, to raise taxes.  And to constantly remind politicians of your pledge and where you stand on taxes, we will send you a RAISE MY TAXES, LOSE MY VOTE bumper sticker.

 

You cannot be economically enslaved and politically free. 

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Act now as if your liberty depended upon it!

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A Citizens' Agenda for Better State Government

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A coalition of Virginia citizen groups and legislators came together to introduce the Freedom & Prosperity Agenda — a citizens’ agenda for better state government that protects the properties, incomes, and futures of all Virginians. These 12 planks were proposed as legislation in a multi-year effort to shift power from the government back to its rightful owners — the people. As you can see, some planks have already been passed, while others require increased grassroots support of people across Virginia — you, your family, and your friends and neighbors – to ensure our state legislators pass them into law.

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1.  Eliminate Virginia's death tax   PASSED

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2.  Pass a Taxpayers Bill of Rights to limit excessive state spending

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3.  Stop unnecessary eminent domain confiscations of private property   PASSED

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4.  Allow parents to choose where their children attend school

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5.  Put Virginia’s budget and expenditures online to allow citizens to monitor their government   PASSED

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6.  Create freedom and fiscal accountability for Virginia’s public colleges and universities

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7.  Eliminate the prepayment of the sales and use tax   PASSED

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8.  Eliminate the War of 1812 tax (BPOL tax)

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9.  Require expiration dates for all new taxes and all tax increases 

PASSED THE HOUSE

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10.  Rein in skyrocketing real estate taxes by basing them on the acquisition value of property

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11.  Eliminate the car tax

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12.  Make more money available for transportation projects by protecting Transportation Trust Fund money from being used for non-transportation purposes   PASSED THE HOUSE

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Click here for more details on the Freedom & Prosperity Agenda

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At a conference at the Omni Richmond Hotel,

Professor Walter Williams discusses the economic implications

of the Freedom & Prosperity Agenda and the need to

control the growth of government.

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