a. NMTA supports a free market, capitalist economic system because it believes that such a system would lead to greater prosperity among the citizens of the state. It believes that such a system increases the liberty of citizens and unleashes human creativity. This, in turn, leads to greater wealth creation among the citizens and that tends to enhance their happiness.

b. NMTA believes that political corruption erodes the rights of the people, dissipates their public wealth and diminishes private endeavor -- all for the benefit of scoundrels. It believes that political corruption has long burdened New Mexico and, to a significant extent, lies behind the failure of the state to achieve its potential.

c. NMTA supports a rational regulatory environment in the state -- one which would reduce regulation to that necessary to protect the actual health & safety of the citizens of the state.

d. NMTA supports a more rational state environmental policy -- one that recognizes that the cleanest environments are derived in those societies where abundant wealth allows the citizens the luxury of worrying about the environment. NMTA supports environmental policy which values human endeavor, human liberty and human health over that of other animals.

e. NMTA supports lowering taxes in order to allow citizens, rather than legislators or bureaucrats, to spend most of the wealth created by the labor of the citizens.

f. NMTA supports cutting the size of government in order to lessen government's propensity to reduce individual liberty and to suck up and dissipate the wealth created by citizens.

g. NMTA opposes corporate welfare because it contorts the purpose of government, generally diminishes competition, and entails a system of forcing, through taxation, a citizen to support the business endeavors of others.

h. NMTA opposes the diminution of traditional American liberties by statute or regulation -- particularly when the purposes of the statute or regulation are emotionally driven, the scientific basis on which they stand are dim and the ultimate consequences of the statute or regulation are not understood.