[Vision2020] Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate

[Sue Hovey]

Sorry, Paul.  I always check a libertarian's stand on choice and haven't 
found any who are truly libertarian in the full sense of the word.  If 
leaving any civil right to the states is truly an American right, then 
slavery in the South should fit that paradigm.

Sue H.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Paul Rumelhart
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 6:59 PM
To: Vision 2020
Subject: [Vision2020] Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate

Not happy with our current President or with Mitt Romney, I decided to
look into the other candidates.

Here is what I found out about the Libertarian Party candidate, Gary
Johnson.  He is a former Governor of New Mexico and is currently a
business man.

Where he stands on some of the issues, condensed (from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Gary_Johnson):

For:
- balanced budget
- vetoing any bills with expenditures in excess of revenues
- replacing income, corporate, and estate taxes with the FairTax
proposal (a high sales tax with an "up-to-poverty" monthly "prebate")
- building new coal-fired and nuclear power plants
- clean air, clean water, conservationism
- auditing the Federal Reserve
- free trade
- tort reform and control of frivolous lawsuits in health care
- trade unions, except that he supports merit-based wages
- continuing Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, but would enact
"responsible entitlement reform"
- raising the retirement age
- cutting the military budget by 43% (back to 2003 levels)
- military intervention only as the last option
- humanitarian interventions in other countries, if emergencies
- 100% campaign finance transparency
- amendment to reverse Citizens United
- States' rights
- continued legalisation of abortion
- legalisation of marijuana
- school voucher system
- simplified legal immigration
- work visas for illegal immigrants rather than amnesty
- marriage equality for same-sex couples


Against:
- earmarks
- TARP
- bailouts
- American Jobs Act
- "quantitative easing" (printing more money)
- government subsidies to businesses
- tariffs
- "ObamaCare"
- medicare prescription drug plan
- continued US involvement in Afghanistan
- renewing the Patriot Act
- physical or psychological torture
- due process for Guantanimo detainees
- "Americans giving up their civil rights in the name of fear"
- War on Drugs
- death penalty
- Department of Education, would abolish it at Federal level
- Federal involvement in student loans
- gun control
- fence along border with Mexico
- internet neutrality
- government regulation of marriage at all
- public funding of stem cell research
- sin taxes on cigarettes


Lots of things I personally agree with, some I don't.  What do others think?

Paul

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