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You're looking for the Libertarian party, or maybe the Guns and Dope party.

-Peter

Question: Would Guns and Dope attempt to eliminate all taxes ?

Answer: We'd follow Lysander Spooner's voluntary tax plan combined with the lightspeed of Internet. Every citizen would receive a semi-annual Republic budget, telling what the Republic of Freetopia wanted to do for them or to them, and each would send in their share of the fee for whatever projects seemed sensible and useful to them. Nobody would pay a penny for anything that seemed pointless,useless, invasive,tyrannical or even annoying to them. If nobody paid for a project, it would get dumped for lack of funding.

The Guns and Dope Party takes this even further: everybody should be a Czar of its own. And yes, they compare the current system in the US to Tsarism.

I don't know how serious their political aspirations are, but it's a good opinion anyway. Quote from their homepage:

A MAYBE MAP OF THE FUTURE Position Paper 23E

The goal of the Guns and Dope Party --
return to constitutional democracy --
will probably remain unacceptable to many in this country.
Especially in the middle of the continent,
a majority seems to prefer the tyranny of TSOG
and its associated "faith-based organizations."
Thus, Western secession must remain on our agenda,
at least as a distinct "maybe."

In Freetopia we will end all "faith-based" bans on
scientific and medical freedom, including the
verbots against orgonomic medicine, LSD, cloning, stem-cell research etc.
Every citizen will choose the type of health care he or she wants,
just as they did in the old U.S. before the Tsarist take-over.
Every scientist will research whatever she or he finds most interesting.
In short, we will become full members of the "civilized" world again,
and ostriches will have the respect they deserve.

Meanwhile, the Tsarist states will probably
sink deeper and deeper into barbarism,
becoming more and more terrified of a world
that also feels more and more terrified of them --
until like all closed systems they choke
on their own entropy [communication jams] and perish.
Maybe.

Emphasis mine.

What?? I thought the Libertarians were the Guns-And-Dope Party!?

You left out the Guns and Dope Party.

and it's not Kerry. I'm voting for myself, and you should too.

you will make a much bigger statement by registering to vote as an independent then voting for yourself (or me) for president

Exactly! If you think you are mature enough to govern yourself then don't let anybody govern you.