Libertarian candidates make their case to voters

Voters will go to the polls in less than a week and most will choose Democrats or Republicans up and down their ballots.

Third party candidates are a considered a long shot to win an election, but Libertarians continue to make their case to voters during each election cycle.

Dr. Lee Hieb is the Libertarian candidate for Iowa Governor.

If you like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, youll like us. Were basically the constitutional, limited government people, Hieb said. Less government, more freedom.

The Libertarian Party has been nominating candidates for office since the early 70s and call for a massive reduction in the size of government. At a national level, they generally support scrapping the current tax system and replacing it with the fair tax, abolishing the welfare state, allowing people to opt-out of social security, drug legalization, gun rights, strong protection of civil liberties, free trade and many more proposals to shrink government.

Libertarians tend to want minimalist government, said David Andersen, ISU assistant professor of political science. They want little government intervention on every facet of life. No regulation of your social life, your personal life, your economic life, lower taxation, everything.

Andersen says Libertarians may appeal to college students and some wealthy independents.

For college students, he says once they enter the real world, they see a need for more government.

On education issues, an important one to ISU students, Libertarians want government out of the way.

Before the government got involved in education, it was relatively cheap [to go to college], Hieb said. As they give you money (student loans, grants), the regulations come in excess of that money.

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Libertarian candidates make their case to voters

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