OUR HISTORY

The National Tax Limitation Committee

The National Tax Limitation Committee (NTLC) has been at work since 1975. We are one of the longest standing and strategically oriented pro-taxpayer/entrepreneur organizations in America.

NTLC grew out of work which Founder and President Lew Uhler did for then-Governor Ronald Reagan to constitutionally limit the growth of taxes and spending year over year in order to control the size of government (Proposition 1, California, 1973).

In late summer of 1978, believing that the time had arrived to begin work at the federal level, we reconvened many members of the Proposition 1 task force, including Milton Friedman, Bill Niskanen, Craig Stubblebine, and others. The federal spending amendment emerged. After months of careful deliberation, the Tax Limitation/Balanced Budget Amendment was fashioned.

Our goal continues, as we incorporate taxpayer support to effect state and federal spending limits.

Our Mission Statement

The National Tax Limitation Committee (NTLC) was organized in 1975. Its mission has been:  To provide national leadership to achieve the optimal size and functions of government and promote candidates and initiatives that support these goals.

What We Believe In

  • Limited government as envisioned by our founding fathers and embodied in the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.
  • Lower tax rates and reduced government spending so as to maximize human freedom and economic liberty.
  • A role for government that will promote equality of opportunity not equality of outcomes.

Our Partners

NTLC and our foundation, The National Tax Limitation Foundation (NTLF), have organized numerous conferences and seminars around the Nation on critical issues, and we have participated as speakers and panelists in meetings sponsored by others. Uhler speaks regularly at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, sponsored by the American Conservative Union (ACU), on whose board he has served for years. NTLC’s operating philosophy has always been to partner with other groups and individuals in the accomplishment of mutual goals.

NTLC and NTLF are further supported by our distinguished Board of Advisors.

The National Tax Limitation Foundation

The National Tax Limitation Foundation (NTLF) was founded in 1976 as the education and research arm of the National Tax Limitation Committee.

Our Mission Statement

The National Tax Limitation Foundation was organized to support Taxpayer education. Its mission has been:  To engage in educational and research activities which can facilitate structural change, reforms and discipline in government at all levels to assure constitutionally limited government as intended by the Founders of our Nation.

The foundation has sponsored and participated in a wide range of activities involving the tax limitation/balanced budget amendment to the US Constitution, state tax limitation measures, line-item veto, reducing the size and scope of federal functions and term limits for state and federal officeholders. More specifically, NTLF has…

  • In conjunction with the American Legislation Exchange Council (ALEC) is conducting a study of state/local government fiscal restraint devices under the direction of Dr. Barry Paulson (University of Colorado), which will generating a unique state/local government fiscal data base and identifing the most effective means of achieving fiscal discipline state by state;
  • Designed the tax limitation/balanced budget amendment to the US Constitution (NTLF’s blue-ribbon drafting committee included Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, Paul McCracken, Bill Niskanen, Craig Stubblebine, Walter Williams, Robert Bork, Aaron Wildavsky, Robert Nisbet, Robert Carleson, to mention but a few); provided the research and education support for the ongoing effort to secure state resolutions for the balanced budget amendment pursuant to Article V of the US Constitution;
  • Sponsored numerous national and regional conferences, often involving state policy network organizations, local state policy councils, including “Revitalizing the Presidential Veto” (Forrest MacDonald, Leno Graglia, James C. Miller, III, Stephen Glazier, Boyden Gray, Charles Cooper, etc.), “Amending the Constitution: Congress, the States and the Prospect of a Convention” (Ed Meese, M. Stanton Evans, Sen. Larry Craig, etc.), Setting Limits: The Role of the States in America’s Fiscal Future” (Milton Friedman, John Sununu, Newt Gingrich, Richard Vedder, etc.), “California Leadership Issues Training” seminars to prepare new and prospective legislators for a world of term limits;
  • Published and distributed numerous studies and books, including “Meeting America’s Economic Crisis: A Roadmap to Emergency Spending Reductions,” “The Right of Peaceful Change: Article V of the Constitution” (John Armor), “Constitutional Aspects of the Balanced Budget Amendment” (Antonin Scalia), “Setting Limits: Constitutional Control of Government” (Lewis K. Uhler); prepared testimony/provided witnesses for numerous state/congressional hearings.