Each year Libertas Institute works on dozens of significant policy issues spanning a wide range of topics. While our short-term efforts result in an unprecedented 85% success rate for being enacted into law, we keep our eyes fixed on long-term goals that will profoundly improve the lives and livelihoods of Utahns.
As we propose and evaluate legislation, here are the key priorities informing our work:
- Free Enterprise: Entrepreneurs and employees deserve a level playing field, fair competition, and the elimination of unnecessary regulations that obstruct free exchange and innovation.
- Personal Freedom: Each person has the right to peacefully pursue their own definition of happiness, including owning and using their property to the benefit of self and society.
- Building Alternatives to Criminalization: Addiction, mental illness, and poverty are among many human conditions that need individualized and community solutions instead of a punitive approach that should be reserved for violent criminals.
- Education Empowerment: Every parent, child, and teacher must have the opportunity to innovate and individualize education.
- Privacy: The person and property of each individual is protected from unreasonable searches and seizures, regardless of the existence of a societal expectation of privacy or the use of a third party.