Why is Citizens Club for Growth Necessary?

The answer is simple. By working together we can move our nation's economic policies in a pro-growth direction. Working alone, we'll get nothing accomplished.

How much can your $100, $500, $1,000 or even $50,000 donation affect national policy debates? Not much these days. Any single contribution is of little consequence in this era of multi-million dollar advertising campaigns.

But what if you could leverage your contributions so that they are matched by 1,000, 5,000 or even 30,000 like-minded economic conservatives, each contributing $100, $500, $1,000, $10,000 or even $50,000? What if your contributions are strategically coordinated to make a difference in the national policy debate?

Now you can be part of an effort, led by former Congressman Pat Toomey, that moves the national debate in a pro-growth direction through our hard-hitting issue ads.

And by joining our 30,000 members, you get Citizens Club for Growth PAC's Members' Only candidate recommendations. If 2,000 Club members each write a $500 contribution to a candidate, together they have donated $1,000,000 for a campaign, equal to 200 special interest political action committees.

Our ultimate goal is to change policy outcomes—to maximize prosperity through pro-growth policies.

Participate in Citizens Club for Growth and watch your donations help change the policies and politics in Washington.

For 30 years, economic conservatives and libertarians labored mightily to wrestle control of Congress away from a Democratic Party that has been mostly captured by the Left at the national level. Most of us believed that electing a Republican Congress would bring about the kinds of major policy reforms—tax cuts, fundamental tax reform and simplification, school choice, less wasteful government, and so on—that are so critical to advancing prosperity.

We now know that was a naive hope.

Too many Congressional Republicans have veered away from the limited government agenda that got them elected to the majority in Congress. They have approved pork-barrel highway bills worse than the Democrats used to give us. They have dropped the ball on making tax cuts permanent, tax reform, and personal investment of Social Security.

The lesson we should derive from this disappointing performance is this: until we as citizens convert one or both of the major political parties over to our pro-growth policy ideas, it is unlikely that we are going to be able to advance our agenda successfully in Congress.

Citizens Club for Growth is designed to help our members achieve that goal of enacting pro-growth policies. We do it with our strategic issue ads, by organizing a nationwide network of committed pro-growth members, and researching the positions of candidates in important elections.

Through our extensive research on incumbents in Congress and the field of challengers, the Club assists our members in identifying which candidates are worthy of contributions—and which are not. We provide a "seal of approval" for our members so they can feel confident that when they make a campaign contribution they are helping elect candidates committed to the right set of ideas.

Today, there are at most some 100 members of the House and roughly 15-20 members of the Senate who are truly dedicated to prosperity and limited government. The goal of Citizens Club for Growth is to double and even triple those numbers within the next ten years using a whole range of tactics. Only by achieving that objective are we likely to achieve policy victories in the pro-growth agenda, such as tax cuts and other limited government issues.

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