Phillips heads up U.S. Taxpayer’s efforts

Keesia Wirt

One of the eight presidential tickets currently seeking voters is Howard Phillips and Herbert Titus from the United States Taxpayer party.

The U.S. Taxpayer party’s goal is to “restore American Jurisprudence to its Biblical premises and to limit the federal government to its Constitutional boundaries,” according to the party’s Internet webpage.

Phillips and Titus are both 1962 graduates of Harvard College. They both reside in Virginia with their families.

Phillips was a long time member of the Republican party before leaving the GOP in 1974. Since that time, he has been chairman of The Conservative Caucus, a non-partisan public policy advocacy group that attempts to terminate Federal subsidies to activist groups.

The Conservative Caucus opposes NAFTA and supports California’s Proposition 187 which ends mandated subsidies for illegal aliens. The group also opposes socialized medicine, abortion and homosexual rights.

For his running mate, Phillips chose Titus, who was a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice for two years.

From 1964 to 1979 he was a professor of law at state universities in Oklahoma, Colorado and Oregon.

During this time Titus was active in left-wing cases, such as opposing the war in Vietnam and supporting abortion and homosexual rights.

In 1975, Titus said he was dramatically converted to Christ. Three years ago Titus created a monthly journal on law and public policy titled “Forecast.” The goal of the journal is to provide a connection between Biblical, Constitutional and common law.

Titus is currently an active member of the Oregon State Bar. He is a practicing attorney serving of Counsel to the Virginia Beach specializing in constitutional litigation and strategy.

—Information for this article was provided by Politics Now, a service of ABC News, National Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Newsweek on the Internet.

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