My Golden Green Compromise:

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Arizona Libertarians,

I’m not here to fight old battles or score points on X or Facebook. I’m here to build something real for Arizona. I’m running as the Green candidate for Governor, and I’m dead serious about earning the official Arizona Libertarian Party endorsement. Real libertarians—the Ron Paul wing, the anti-war, anti-crony crowd—deserve a candidate who delivers on principle instead of neocons in libertarian drag. So I’m offering you exactly that.

I call it my Golden Green Compromise.

I'm willling to endorse, right here and now, a hard policy of ending Arizona’s state income tax entirely by 2028 for the party's endorsement.

No phase-outs, no loopholes, no games. We kill the 2.5% flat tax that’s still reaching into working Arizonans’ paychecks. Full repeal. Zero state income tax on individuals or families by the end of my first term. That’s real NAP-compliant relief—your money stays in your pocket, your choice, no coercion from Phoenix bureaucrats.

At the same time, I bring a clear resource-based economics outlook to the table. Arizona’s natural wealth—our energy, minerals, water, land, and sun—belongs first and foremost to the people who live here. My Energy Dividends Plan already treats these resources as the common heritage of Arizonans and returns the people’s rightful share directly to every citizen in the form of regular dividends. No middlemen, no corporate capture. Just honest distribution of what nature gave us all.

This is where the compromise gets its steel: a forced ban on capitalists manufacturing artificial scarcity to profit. Earth’s resources are finite—we all know that. But too many powerful players deliberately block access to necessities—housing, energy, water, food, medicine—to drive up prices and pad their exorbitant incomes. Perhaps you can call that a market, but a free one? That’s malign greed rigging the game. Planned obsolescence, monopolistic hoarding, collusion to create shortages, lobbying to choke off competition—these are the tactics that turn abundance into engineered scarcity while families struggle. My ban stops that cold. We protect the true free market from the cronies who pervert it. Voluntary cooperation and honest exchange on one side; a steel-fisted rejection of artificial barriers on the other.

This balance is what true liberty demands: no force in everyday economics, but zero tolerance for the parasites who engineer scarcity for private gain while the rest of us pay the price. End the income tax. Return resource dividends to the people. Ban the rigged scarcity scams. That’s the Golden Green Compromise—libertarian principle married to Green realism.

I’m the guy who set the groundwork for Marjorie Taylor Greene to stand up at the Ron Paul Institute’s “War Is Back On The Menu” event in Lake Jackson this April and call out the forever-war betrayal. I connected the dots, amplified the anti-war voices, and helped make that turning point happen. MTG looked the MAGA crowd in the eye and said what needed saying. 'MAGA is dead', she said. That wasn’t talk—it was action.

I’m also proud to say I’ve developed a real, growing relationship with libertarian scholar Michael Rectenwald. Our conversations have sharpened my thinking and confirmed what I already knew: the cultural rot, the foreign policy lies, and the crony rackets all flow from the same anti-liberty source. Mike gets it. He’s Mises Caucus through and through, and he sees the same path forward I do.

Arizona libertarians: this is your moment. I’m offering a real coalition—peace abroad, liberty at home, economic justice without the jackboot. My Golden Green Compromise puts Arizona First: an end to income taxes by 2028, resource dividends for every citizen, and a decisive stand against the greed that manufactures scarcity while the rest of us pay the price.

Register Green if you have to. Write me in on July 21. Push your party to endorse the candidate who will actually deliver the compromise that works.

This isn’t about left or right anymore. It’s about Arizona First—peace, prosperity, and liberty for all of us.

For liberty, equality, and the Golden Green wave that libertarians can actually get behind,

William Pounds

Green Candidate for Governor of Arizona  

Phoenix, Arizona  

May 2026