Good afternoon,
In this special bulletin on International Workers' Day, we’re pleased to announce the launch of our Restate The Case series.
With the ongoing coronavirus crisis, the unprecedented response measures are highly damaging to the public finances, and involve troubling interventions in the economy and the daily lives of everyone. As it stands, these extraordinary measures are justifiable, but at some point they will no longer be - and they will need to be reversed.
In preparation for the end of the virus, we must ensure that we are making the case for free markets and free peoples. We say to anyone who shares our principles: don’t despair. Emergencies such as this are exactly why we fight for what we do in normal times - so that we can pull together as a nation to see off a crisis. It means we must start helping the government with constructive ideas to map a course to sound public finances in the coming years. More than anything, it means learning again how to argue for freedom.
Taxpayers across the country are right to be concerned by the socialist dogma peddled by politicians, academics and celebrities in recent years. As we all know from history, socialism always ends in misery. The TPA exists to fight such ideas that inhibit freedom and make the vulnerable pay for the privilege, which is why we launched our Stand Against Socialism campaign last year. The campaign was an incredible success, and saw us leading the charge in university campuses, street stalls and online. We now need to fight off socialism again - only this time, illustrating the horrors of statism alone won’t work. We’ll need to restate the case for freedom itself.
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Fortunately for advocates of freedom, we have two crucial elements on our side - history and facts. We used these to our advantage when publishing our two landmark papers, The Little Red Book and the Freedom Factbook.
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Our new Restate The Case policy series outlines, in a series of handy briefing notes, exactly the sort of history and facts we will need to fight for what we believe. We’ve consolidated the series into one easy to navigate webpage, covering a broad range of topics from water privatisation to Che Guevara t-shirts. As I've written in the introductory blog piece for the series, these papers form the foundation of our constant battle for freedom.
Many people already reject the precepts of socialism. Our aim is to now provide the knowledge and arguments needed to robustly defend our hard-fought freedoms at a time when they are needed most.
Will you help us restate the case?
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John O'Connell
Chief executive, TaxPayers' Alliance
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