A Milton Friedman, Frederich Hayek follower

Mike Stopa candidate for US Congress, 3rd District in Massachusetts declared himself a "libertarian" in a radio interview rebroadcast on YouTube in June. He separated himself from the views of GOP moderates, but also distanced himself from the tendencies of the GOP's small non-interventionist wing.

From YouTube interview released June 19:

From time immemorial I have been a libertarian, deeply free market activist, a Milton Friedman follower, a Frederich Hayek follower. Someone who believes in the free market. And this is all from my Polish upbringing. My father was a small businessman. I learned early on of the importance of the free market, not taxing people to death as they aspire to get higher in society.

I have a very critical stance on people like McCain, Lindsay Graham, particularly on their stance on illegal immigration.

On foreign policy:

Ron Paul does not seem to understand the need for America to play a leading role on the international stage. He never says it, but what he really wants to do is draw us back to our borders.

I admire Ron Paul for a lot of reasons. His critique of the Fed for instance, very well taken... Austrian economics. I've got a lot of good things to say about him. But I would not follow him off the edge of the cliff on foreign policy."views.

Michael Stopa is a Physicist specializing in computation and nanoscience in the Physics Department at Harvard University. He describes himself as one of the only, if not the only "fiscal conservative" professors at Harvard.

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