2024 presidential election: 10 candidates running third-party campaigns
2. Michael Rectenwald
Michael Rectenwald is also seeking the Libertarian nomination for president. He characterizes his campaign as an effort to “wrest power from the corrupt, incompetent, and tyrannical federal government and restore it to the people.”
Rectenwald’s priorities include “slashing government spending, taxes, and restoring a free-market system that allows young people a future and the elderly security by untangling the federal government from its corporate power brokers” by “abolishing the income tax, ending corporate bailouts and subsidies, cutting red tape, and eliminating all foreign aid.”
Rectenwald also calls for “stopping inflation at the source by auditing and abolishing the income tax, ending corporate bailouts and subsidies, and allowing legal alternative currencies like gold, silver, and Bitcoin.”
Rectenwald wants to abolish multiple government agencies including the Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Education, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Transportation Security Administration. Ending the war in Ukraine and all non-defensive military interventions overseas is another one of his priorities.
In addition to “investigating all agencies and corporations involved in formulating and executing the disastrous COVID response measures,” Rectenwald envisions employing a “rigorous use of the 10th Amendment to nullify all unconstitutional federal laws by the states and localities” and “ending the use of [diversity, equity and inclusion] criteria in federal hiring and promotions.”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
