Matthew Laszacs

Matthew Laszacs (Libertarian Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent North Carolina's 2nd Congressional District. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2026. The Libertarian Party primary for this office on March 3, 2026, was canceled.

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Matthew Laszacs is a business executive with 20 years of experience building and leading successful teams. The son of military parents, Matthew was born in Philadelphia, PA, raised in Millington, TN, and moved to North Carolina in 2001 where he has resided ever since.

Laszacs earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from North Carolina Wesleyan College while working full time and raising two children. Balancing work, education, and family responsibilities provided him with firsthand experience navigating the complex systems and constraints faced by working families.

Through his professional experience, Laszacs observed that capable individuals often struggled not because of a lack of effort or ability, but because of inefficient or overly complex systems. This experience helped shape his interest in institutional design, incentives, accountability, and outcomes. He summarizes this view as, “People are not broken. Systems are.”

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Congress has relegated itself to a mere passenger in all of the important decisions this country is facing. In the absence of a strong legislative branch, the president legislates by decree, and the judiciary adjudicates the lawfulness of those actions via the courts while creating extraconstitutional legal fictions from the bench. Congress dodges responsibility while an executive "King" and nine unelected judges write the laws and run the country. We have drifted very far from the framer's vision for a clear separation of powers between the branches. Congress needs to reassert its Article I powers, check the executive, and rein in the judiciary.The United States needs to get its fiscal house in order. Past spending has caught up to us. Inflation is eating away at savings while working families struggle to pay for everyday items. Interest payments on the debt are crowding out our ability to fund current priorities and making it harder to tackle systemic issues with entitlement programs. Social Security is rapidly approaching a budget crisis that will force younger Americans to subsidize a greater share of current benefits while receiving fewer benefits when they retire. We need a real budget and we need to live by it. Congress needs to plan its spending priorities and ensure the government lives within its means - so that our grandchildren don't suffer the consequences.Liberty must be achieved incrementally and in the due course of time. I would love to witness a fully Libertarian world firsthand, but I recognize that destination will elude me in my lifetime. For now, I am satisfied to meet people where they are and to provide Classical Liberal solutions to real world problems that are meaningful to Americans' daily lives.

We must eat the elephant one bite at a time. That means we must apply a crawl-walk-run approach to restoring liberty. Over the years, our institutions have drifted far from their intended purposes. We fix that by injecting practical liberty into existing institutions - one bite at a time.

People are not broken. Systems are. Let's work together to fix broken systems.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Congress should implement some prioritization tools for improved fiscal management. Something like the very successful Swiss "debt brake" that caps spending during good times and allows deficit spending during bad times. I am not saying we have to cut spending - I am saying we should be disciplined in our spending so that we don't run permanent deficits.

Social Security is purely a mathematics problem - there are not enough workers to pay for the benefits of retirees. That means some hard decisions must be made. Congress must be courageous and lead the way. We should not unfairly burden future generations with tax increases and benefit cuts while we keep our benefits intact. Everyone should share the burden equally.

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