Welcome to the Cyber Home of
The American Political Party
(TAPP)
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TAPP embraces these principles
  • These principles are self–evident truths.
    • All individuals are created equal.
    • Each individual is endowed by her or his Creator with unalienable Rights, and that among those rights are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
    • Sovereignty is endowed in the individual, and to secure their individual rights, individuals combine their sovereignty to create governments that derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
  • The legitimate roles of a government are limited to:

    • Protecting the lives and property of its citizens from external aggression. (Military)
    • Protecting the lives and property of its citizens from internal aggression. (Criminal Law, Police and Fire)
    • Providing a just system of resolving non-criminal conflicts. (Civil Law)
    • Overseeing the private development and use of natural resources and man-made infrastructure that are not capable of private ownership.
  • Only two characteristics distinguish legitimate taxation from felony theft, because both rely on the threat of deadly force to take money from individuals: The purpose for which the money is taken, and the criteria used to determine from whom, and how much, money is taken. Therefore:
    • The only legitimate purposes are those listed above. Taking money from an individual for the exclusive benefit of another is theft.
    • The only legitimate tax targets are individuals. Taxing abstract legal constructs, like corporations, public utilities, etc. only denies its victims knowledge of its amount and who pays how much. Therefore it is theft.
    • The only legitimate taxes are ones that are calculated using a single base, e.g. income, consumption, property, etc., to which a single rate is applied. Tax rates that differ according to an individual's personal characteristics is theft.
    Sin taxes are an illegitimate means of bypassing America's justice system to which the Constitution entrusts the exclusive power to administer the rule of law and impose punishment on criminal activity. Therefore, lawmakers who presume the right to act in the court's stead, act unethically, immorally and illegitimately to breech individual liberty's final bulwark against governmental tyranny and tyranny of the masses.
  • An individual with a rifle is a citizen: A person without one, is a subject.

    Corollary: A woman with a gun is the equal of a man with one: A woman with fist, club or sword is not the equal of a man with them.
  • To remain America the commitment of United States citizens to the rule of law must be as absolute as its rejection of the rule of man, or men, as evidenced by the fact the United States Constitution denies the simple majority any right to ever directly wield the government's unlimited power.
  • It is wrong to classify human beings according to any characteristic that is not within the individual's ability to embrace, modify, or reject. (See TAPP's first national goal: Legalizing "[X] American". )
    Of all such practices, the most evil is a government that divides, or diversifies, its individual citizens into groups defined by their bloodlines (or any of the many euphemisms used to avoid admitting the intent is bloodline, like ancestry, culture, heritage, and religions that remain a proxy for bloodline ) for the purpose of extending one such group rights, privileges, and benefits that are superior to those of other citizens.
  • Every person has a right to her or his opinions.  No one has a right to be wrong in her or his facts.