The LNC had eight employees, one of whom left for other employment and another is on reduced time because she recently gave birth to a child. Their total net pay was $22,164.
There there were the other expenses associated with paying people:
$3444 for Social Security
$2571 for health insurance.
$2047 for Federal Withholding and unemployment
$1092 was the Employee 401K contribution.
$805 was Medicare.
$574 was Pennsylvania withholding
$107 was Arizona withholding
The LNC has consultants. Their pay includes
$28,545 to Fresh IP PLC for legal-general
$6300 to Mountaintop Creative
$4500 to Oliver Hall as his retainer.
$2000 to Paula Edwards for FEC consulting.
$500 to Kelsey Lyon Design for Contractor Admin and Internships.
$3160 to All-in-On accounting
$493 for Payroll Service fees went to Paychex
$192 to PNC for bank fees.
$140 to Quickbooks for Accounting Services.
Expenses plausibly related to fund raising include
$7460 to The Miles Press for Ballot Access Fundraising.
$953 Postage and shipping
$689 to Printful for merchandise for resale
Advancing the party includes
$4000 to Iron Light
$3444 for software and hardware, of which @2445 to Zoho was the larget part.
$414 for historical preservation committee storage.
$220 to Etsy as an outreach and activism expense.
A credit card debt of $2053 was paid to PNC.
$39 for other costs.
Thankfully, not a penny of my money went to any of that, since I no longer support the LNC, its state or local affiliates, any splinter parties or any other major or minor parties or alleged parties, or their actual or alleged candidates, financially, electorally, or as a volunteer. I don’t even do business with them as a contractor. Good riddance.
The libertarians have theoretical goals which broadly coincide with mine, but in practice are useless to counterproductive towards achieving those goals, and over 40 years of personal observation and experience have erased any hope that any faction, candidates or groups for internal or external office, strategies, plans, employees, etc will change that fact, particularly in a sustainable fashion. They are just spinning wheels and getting ever more stuck in mud, getting it all over themselves and anyone in their proximity, whether by accident or design, in the process.
Fortunately, as things have evolved over those 40 plus years of involvement and study, many alternatives have become more successful at advocating for, spreading the ideas of, and in various ways helping implement minimizing territorial monopoly political government and maximizing all other forms of governance, within, adjacent to, and outside of the electoral political process. This has occurred due to evolving communication technologies and legal changes that make it more advantageous to seek political goals through numerous forms of political organizations besides formal political parties ad such, in comparison thereto.
Other such legal changes have simultaneously made it harder to qualify and remain qualified for ballots, to gather valid signatures toward that end, to support parties and especially minor parties financially, to be publicly associated with them in a context of ever increasing bipolarization hostility between major parties and of a 24/7 delocalised news cycle, omnipresent social media maximizing conflict and viewpoint silo reinforcement , loss of privacy, etc.
And to politically and otherwise organize , fund, advocate, and popularize all manner of viewpoints and efforts of all sorts, including those aimed in various towards broadly libertarian goals.
Thank God.