Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair.

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In an October 26 2009 interview with the Santa Fe New Mexican's Steve Terrell Johnson announced his decision to form an advocacy committee called the Our America Initiative to help him raise funds and promote small government ideas.

He won the Libertarian Party nomination on May 5 2012. Gary Earl Johnson (born January 1 1953) is an American politician businessman and member of the Libertarian Party. After leaving office Johnson founded the non-profit Our America Initiative in 2009 a political advocacy committee seeking to promote policies such as free enterprise foreign non-interventionism limited government and privatization.