Montana Policy Institute
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The Montana Policy Institute (MPI) was a 501(c)(3) nonprofit free-market think tank. It sought to "equip Montana citizens and decision makers to better argue for state public policy options that respect individual freedom, expect individual responsibility, and that look to government as an avenue of last rather than first resort when addressing Montana issues."[1]
As of August 2025, MPI's website was inactive.
Approach to public policy
MPI's work was built around 10 principles:[2]
- "The legitimate power of government begins and ends with the people.
- Government exists to protect rights, not to create them.
- Free people are not equal, and equal people are not free.
- Long term and cumulative consequences should be considered more carefully than short term benefits.
- Government has nothing to give anybody except what it first takes from somebody else.
- A government that's big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you've got.
- Nobody [spends] somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.
- One cannot claim as a right that which someone else must provide.
- What belongs to you, you tend to take care of; what belongs to no one (or everyone) tends to fall into disrepair (nobody washes a rental car).
- Free people engaging in free enterprise, not the political allocation of wealth and opportunity, are the engines of economic prosperity."
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