You want to keep more of your hard earned money. The less our government spends, the more you can take home to your family. Spending should be kept to only necessary government functions. We can reduce that spending in part by encouraging people to work. Through eliminating occupational licensing, increasing take-home pay, and reducing healthcare costs, there's more incentive and ability for the poor and disabled to find jobs or start businesses that will pay enough to cover or exceed the cost of living. 

The drug war has been the single most harmful policy in our nation. It is disproportionately enforced on the poor and minorities, has been used to encroach on our fourth amendment rights that protect us from search and seizure, has filled prisons beyond capacity with nonviolent offenders, has encouraged criminal behavior, and prevented people getting the medical treatment they desperately need, either by denying them the medicine itself, or by frightening them away from getting help for an addiction. 

All people should have the right to protect themselves in whatever way they see fit. This right was guaranteed to us and we've had nothing but infringement for decades. We need to not only maintain the rights we have, but roll back the restrictions that keep us less safe and protect those who would go outside the law. Laws against guns drive gun sales to the black market. Criminals have no problem finding them for sale. It's regular law-abiding people like us that are left without the ability to stand up to those who would do us harm.