Statement on Joe Stack and the IRS Austin Plane Crash

by Jake Towne

“Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.” – Gandhi

For those unaware, Mr. Stack set fire to his family’s home and crashed a private plane into the IRS Austin branch during the workday, killing one other person, injuring 13, and two of the injured are in critical condition. While full details surrounding this incident are still unclear, the FBI believes that his suicide note is genuine.

Guns or Health Care?

by Jake Towne

“We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.”

Throughout time, governments have strong tendencies to simultaneously splurge on both domestic spending and the more sinister business of warfare. This is referred to as the “guns versus butter” economic model. “Butter” is synonymous with domestic spending, while “guns” is synonymous with military spending.

A Special Campaign Announcement Just In Time For Christmas

by Jessica Roth
Campaign Manager
Jake Towne, 2010 Candidate for US Congress

How can voters believe that any candidate will represent them by tightening the purse-strings on wasteful government spending if they fail to start with themselves?
Jake Towne, an independent candidate for U.S. House in PA-15, believes government needs salary cuts – and will start with his own. Towne will only accept the estimated 2008 median household income in the 15th district of $58,080 instead of $174,000. After taxes, Towne will donate the remainder of his salary to local non-profit hospitals to help provide health care to those who need it the most in the district.

END THE FED…. Then What? – The Transition to Sound Money

by Jake Towne

“Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.”

In this talk I will first address what the goal is – as one must always begin with the end in mind. Then I will briefly discuss several transition ideas that are already present in literature, describe possible issues with each, and then spend the remainder of the time outlining my proposal