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"We Pledge Ourselves to: Stop the folly of uncontrolled spending. Balance the budget-not by increasing taxes by cutting expenditures, drastically and immediately. Revise the Federal tax system and coordinate it with State and local tax systems. Use the taxing power for raising revenue and not for punitive or political purposes...
Conclusion...Finally, as our party affirmed in its first Platform in 1856: "Believing that the spirit of our institutions as well as the Constitution of our country guarantees liberty of conscience and equality of rights amount our citizens, we oppose all legislation tending to impair them, " and "we invite the affiliation and cooperation of the men of all parties, however differing from us in other respects, in support of the principles herein declared. "The acceptance of the nomination tendered by this Convention carries with it, as matter of private honor and public faith, an undertaking by each candidate to be true to the principles and program herein set forth."