The high price of housing has made it impossible for families to live near their work in city centers, and has encouraged sprawl further and further from municipal services in order to find affordable housing.

Occupational licenses are too often merely protectionism set up by the state to artificially restrict supply and give boons to special interests at the expense of the people of Massachusetts.

The people of the Commonwealth are entitled to swift and speedy trials by juries of their peers, but are often denied one due to the sheer number of cases overwhelming courts and the heavy handed practice of Commonwealth’s Attorneys overcharging and excessive cash bail to induce plea bargains, to get out of jail and to avoid longer prison sentences.

As the sole purpose of government is to protect the inherent natural rights of all individuals and freedom of trade and commerce being critical to those ends, the proper scope and role of government is to maintain a fair and impartial rule of law in which individuals and commercial enterprises compete.

Healthcare in Massachusetts is beset by a mismatch between high demand and low supply. This is due in part to state regulations that prevent providers from offering more healthcare services and more healthcare facilities.

The Drug War has been a disaster for all communities and people within the Commonwealth, through the explosion of incarceration, police militarization, seizure and forfeiture laws, and other numerous ill effects, without stopping or even curbing the use of drugs and the social ills of addiction and overdose rates.

The individual right to effective self-defense is fundamental, and the constitutionally protected right to bear arms shall not be infringed.  Peaceful citizens of the Commonwealth should be allowed to carry arms for personal protection and should be secure in their possession of firearms from state confiscation without criminal conviction after due process of law.

The right of individual liberty requires the recognition that individuals have autonomy over their own bodies, and so we reject efforts by the state that interfere and infringe upon that fundamental right.

The culture war fight over our children’s education has grown to a fever pitch and continues to impede the actual purpose of our schools – educating the next generation. 

The people of Massachusetts deserve a better system of choosing their representatives, and we need to break the cycle of fearing that a choice outside of the old establishment parties will enable the “greater evil” to win. The Commonwealth needs more choices and more voices in the legislature speaking for all of Massachusetts's points of view.