Lloyd Taylor

Lawyer, Certified Public Accountant, researcher, author

Lloyd Taylor was born Lloyd Irvin Taylor on June 22, 1943 in San Diego, CA to Gl
enn L. Taylor and Marie G. (Chapman Turner) Taylor.
EARLY LIFE
His family moved to La
Mesa, CA where Lloyd worked for five years delivering newspapers while in eleme
ntary, junior high and high school. He saved his money for college. At Helix H
igh School in La Mesa, CA he participated in student government and in three Ju
nior Achievement companies. He learned how a business operates. He was awarded
a scholarship from the Crown Zellerbach Foundation for college. He entered sci
ence fairs with his research and displays on air pollution and smog.
EDUCATION
In 1965 he graduated f
rom San Diego State University with B.S. in journalism and minor in business adm
inistration. While at the University of California at Los Angeles, he passed the
CPA exam before he graduated in 1967 with a Masters of Accounting in Business A
dministration. In 1973 he graduated with a Juris Doctor degree from Loyola Uni
versity School of Law in Los Angeles.
PROFESSIONAL LIFE
In Los Angeles Lloyd worked
as a Certified Public Accountant for Peat, Marwick, and Mitchell, CPAs. He move
d to San Francisco where he worked for a CPA firm while studying for the bar exa
m. In 1974 he passed he bar and opened his own office as a lawyer and CPA speci
alizing in business law. He enjoyed fighting the Internal Revenue Service on be
half of clients. He won judgments against the California Secretary of State to p
ermit Libertarian Party candidates on the ballot in San Francisco and Santa Cruz
counties.
PHILOSOPHY
While at UCLA he read Atl
as Shrugged by Ayn Rand which molded his political views. In San Francisco, he
helped to found the Libertarian Party of California and drafted their by-laws.
POLITICAL
He ran for County Supervisor in San Francisco as a "Libertarian Lawyer/CPA". H
is platform of drastically reducing government, selling the municipal transporta
tion system and city parks, legalizing drug, victimless crimes, and prostitution
was too radical for San Francisco. He lost the election to Harvey Milk and the
incumbents.
Lloyd Taylor's 1975 campaign platform:
"My philosophy: Repeal Compulsory Taxes. Sell Muni, the Airport, the Port and Y
erba Buena Center to private enterprise. Sell the schools to private enterprise
. Repeal city payroll, business and Gross Receipts taxes. To the Chief of Poli
ce: 'Make the Streets Safe from Violent Crime or You're Fired.' Abolish propert
y taxes. Cut supervisors' salaries in half. Prohibit the use of tax dollars to
enforce victimless crime laws. Fewer county employees; better business climate,
free market economy; abolition of city permit bureaucracy; and lower taxes mean
more jobs."
He later ran the San Francisco county portion of the state ballot drive to qual
ify Proposition 13 to reduce property taxes from 3% to 1% of market value.
COMMUNITY
He was a co-founder and
first treasurer of the Golden Gate Business Association.