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The principles that guide
the beliefs and foundations of David Moran are:
- Self Sufficiency – I believe in the
power of independence and the need for all humans to take
responsibility for their lives, their actions and their family
destinies. I would work to reduce the intrusion of governmental
agencies into our lives and find new ways for each of us to build
our futures through our own hard work and ingenuity.
- Education – The single most important
aspect of humanity is learning. We must promote the best and
highest standards of education for people of all ages, from
pre-school through post-retirement. It is only through the best
education program that we can build that we will continue to raise
ourselves and our fellow citizens into the full responsibility of
citizenship.
- Community – We are living in the
greatest country in the world. It is a nation that was built upon
the two principles of hard work and community support. Those
aspects of being an American need to be heightened and strengthened
to ensure that this nation never falters, never fails and never
falls to the level of lesser nations. This spirit starts in our
community. As we think globally we must ever act locally in
everything that we do. It is our personal responsibility to make
our communities and our neighborhoods the finest places to live on
this earth. The “government” is not going to do this for us. We
need to do the work ourselves, together and united in our desire for
life.
- Family – Family values underlie the
greatness of our nation and the dignity of us as Americans. The
family unit must be defended, protected, nourished and encouraged
through every program that we build.
- Simplicity – We humans are a wonderful
combination of simplicity and complexity. We need both in our
lives, but the trend of modern society is carrying us away from the
root simplicity that we all need in order to find satisfaction in
all aspects of our lives. Simplicity in our lives is a value that
goes unrecognized in the competitive world. I will direct my
attention increasingly to finding ways through which the power of
our representational government can be utilized to bring the beauty
of simplicity back to us.
- Freedom of Public Information – There
should be no secrets kept from us citizens by the government except
for the information that our enemies could use to destroy us. Each
of us has the right to know what is truthfully being done by the
government as it would affect our lives.
- Privacy of Personal Information – No
government has the right to pry into our private lives. This is one
of our most basic fundamental rights as Americans. It is vital that
we reverse the current trends toward governmental intrusion into our
privacy through the excuse of seeking out internal enemies.
Terrorism is a reality. Terrorists are enemies of all free
peoples. But we must concentrate our attention on our enemies, not
upon our faithful who are suffering because of the misdirection of
our current “war on terrorism.”
- Honesty – All public statements must be
honest, open, complete and forthright. There is no room for
dishonesty in representational government.
- Truth – Is is and will remain ever my
policy to “tell it like it is, not as we might like to think it
should be.”
Specific West Virginia Platform Positions:
- For Local Control of all Education
- For increased funding for schools
- For the elimination of Farm Personal Property
Taxes
- For Property taxation based upon purchase
price of the property
- Against Property Value evaluation based upon
the sale price of your neighbors property
- For increased restrictions on the power of
Eminent Domain
- For Local Community Development
- Against sales taxes on food and necessities
- For increased taxes on luxury items, vacation
property, tourist expenditures and energy-based industries
- For rational and meaningful environmental
controls, opposed to excessive stream control
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