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Our names are Kortney and Taylor and we are seniors at Hayes High School. We are reaching out to the citizens of Delaware, Ohio to inform them of details for election day. We are not for any party, this is strictly details about candidates. Hope this helps!

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Topics

The two topics are national and local elections

NATIONAL

          - President

          - Vice President

          - U.S. Senator

          - Congress

LOCAL

          - County Commissioner

          - Prosecuting Attorney

          - Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas

          - Sheriff

          - County Recorder

          - County Treasurer

          - County Engineer

          - Coroner

          - Judge of the Court of Appeals

          - Judge of the Court of Common Pleas

Richard Duncan for President and Ricky Johnson for Vice President?

The first person on the voting ballot for president is candidate Richard Duncan of the Nonparty.

Foreign Policy- Maintaining a strong foreign policy aimed at averting nuclear attacks worldwide and future attacks in America by terrorists.Our involvement will be focused on preventing sanctuaries of terrorists from building up in foreign lands. However, much effort will be placed on the prevention of invasions into foreign lands due to the costs of loss of lives and the costs to rebuild these nations. Military spending will not be cut in the budget.

Jobs and Economics- Implementing the Federal Jobs and Economic Boost Act also known as the Duncan Plan. This legislation will designate geographic areas which will encourage corporations to locate therein under the conditions that they hire only citizens at reasonable wages and provide health care plans. Incentives will be given to the businesses such as reduced land costs and lower rents to help offset the advantages of outsourcing and offshoring American jobs. Taxes- Taxes will accrue to all levels of government from these projects and by putting people to work will reduce the costs of welfare programs thus our federal deficit will be reduced toward balancing it in the future. Corporations who participate in this Patriotic Act will be highly praised for being mindful of Americas future! I also will propose 20 plus other strategies to get jobs back in our country such as lowering corporate tax rates to discourage operations over seas; developing green energy programs; develop our natural oil and gas resources and biofuels; increase the role of the small business administration; enforce our existing trade laws and to devise programs with the federal reserve to free up lending.
Economy- Ridding the inherent problems within government and replacing them with a new era of pride in America and strengthening our freedoms. Massive problems exist in the cumbersome size of our government such as wasteful spending and unneeded regulations which hamper the free economy. Problems exist in the 2 party system in which parties are willing to spend wildly just to court favor with the voters so as to obtain their vote. A problem exists also with the funding system of politicians in which they realize if they want to stay in Washington they had better cater to lobbiests. Under the Duncan administration all will have the American dream oppurtunity. We will go forth united ethically and morally preserving our free speech, religion choices, allowing businesses to operate under the free market system, and preserving unreasonable searches and seizures and gun rights.

Immigration- Immigration problems will be dealt with sternly by requiring all illegals currently in the country to register and to wait in line like every one has to or risk permanent disqualification to entry. 

Deficit- The deficit problem will be addressed as stated above in the Duncan Plan and the size of government reduction. Lower tax rates will be proposed to help spur the economy but those in the top 2 percent of incomes will expect tax raises due to their ability to pay.

Foreign Dependence- We will concentrate on oil and energy resources in our Country to avert the need to meddle into the oil resources in the mideast which can lead to uneeded political wars. As noted above reduced borrowing from China and Japan will take place from the balancing of our budget.Equal oppurtunities for education will be provided for all so as to provided those disadvantaged economically or socially to achieve the American dream.

Duncan's Vice President is Ricky Johnson. No picture was found for him.

(Credits go to http://www.richardduncaneconomics.com/about-this-blog/ for providing this information.)

Virgil Goode for President and Jim Clymer for Vice President?

The next person on the voting ballot for President is candidate Virgil Goode of the Constitutional Party.

• Jobs, the Debt and Deficit: He says the United States can not borrow its way to prosperity.  It is incumbent on our next President to propose a balanced budget upon taking office and not ten years down the road. There will be pain, but the old saying that one will not get out of the hole by digging the hole deeper is accurate.  Nearly every department and agency will face significant cuts and some will face elimination. Veterans benefits is an example that will not be cut.  Examples of programs eliminated include the National Endowment for the Arts, No Child Left Behind, etc.  Other programs and departments, such as Foreign Aid and Education, will be slashed and trimmed.  Reducing regulations and becoming energy independent will also mean more jobs for America.  The Canada to Texas pipeline needs to be built and operational expeditiously and not delayed or stopped as the current Administration is doing.  Another way to reduce unemployment, reduce the deficit, and provide more jobs for U.S. citizens is to reduce legal immigration.  In recent years about 1.2 million green cards have been issued annually and over 60% go to foreigners who come to the United States and take jobs from American citizens.  He has proposes a moratorium (with a few minor exceptions) on issuing green cards until our unemployment rate is under 5 percent.  America has one of the most liberal immigration policies in the world and it is time for the citizens of this country to be at the head of the line for jobs.  We also need to totally end diversity visas (50,000 per year), reduce chain migration, and dramatically reduce asylees and refugees and their costs to the U.S. taxpayer.

• Immigration: He said illegal immigration must stop. Our borders must be secure. In Congress, he supported and cosponsored legislation to stop illegal aliens, terrorists, drug smugglers, and other criminals from coming across our Southern border. He said we need to utilize troops, fences, and other measures to stop the invasion from Mexico. He was the first to sponsor legislation providing for a fence along the Southern Border.  We must continue to fight for funding and for adequacy of the fence. Illegal immigration costs the United States taxpayers billions every year through increased health care costs, social service utilization, emergency room fees, prison expenses, and in other areas. For example, of the 189,000 federal prisoners, 50,000 are illegal or recent aliens costing the taxpayers millions of dollars for their incarceration. We must end the anchor baby situation, whereby a child of illegal aliens is an automatic citizen of the United States.

• Energy Costs: The United States must be free of foreign fossil fuel. Freedom from the Middle Eastern sheiks, Nigeria, and Venezuela is necessary for a continued bright future for our country. We cannot allow OPEC to control our energy supply. The United States must develop its own resources and alternative fuel sources.  Hydrogen, biodiesel, and other alternative energy sources have potential in making us less dependent on foreign fossil fuels. He also supports the utilization of nuclear power and expanded drilling opportunities for natural gas and oil in this country so that our energy needs are met by domestic and not foreign sources. He has supported and will continue supporting drilling in Alaska and the continental United States. If President, he would support the drilling off our coasts where it can be done safely and where the states, such as Virginia, have passed legislation requesting offshore drilling.Being free of a need for foreign fossil fuel will enable us to be free of the shifting sands of the Middle East.

• Tax Reductions and Fairness: He supports the elimination of the Death Tax. Death should not mean the end of the family farm or the family business. A death tax often precludes families from having the homestead or family business. He supports and has voted to terminate the current IRS Code at a date determined in the future so it can be replaced with something simpler and fairer. There are several alternatives to the current Code and include the Fair Tax, the Flat Tax, the Transaction Tax, and others. Between the current IRS code and the Fair Tax, He would support the Fair Tax with certain modifications. For example, the Fair Tax, which is basically a national sales tax, has a prebate of $180 per month per person, which should be limited to United States citizens, who are adults and who reside in the United States. He would support a Fair Tax only if certain other taxes, such as the Death Tax and Income Tax were eliminated.  If the Income Tax were to be retained, then he would oppose a national sales tax and have a simple flat rate income tax and scrap the current code with its inequities.

• Medical Costs: A big factor in medical costs is the high cost of malpractice insurance for our physicians and other health care providers. He supports tort reform that will limit attorney fees and the amount of damages recoverable for non-economic losses.

• Social Security: He says we must preserve and protect Social Security. Social Security is owed over two trillion dollars. Social Security should be repaid and have real money in the Social Security Trust Fund and not IOU's.

• Marriage: He believes that marriage should be a union between a man and a woman. He is opposed to gay marriages and so-called gay civil unions. He supports the federal Marriage Protection Amendment.

• Health Care: He supports ending Obamacare.

• Public Education: He said Washington should not be running our local school systems. We need to leave local education decisions to the states and localities. He is opposed to national testing of public school students and voted against "No Child Left Behind" with its new mandates and new tests that must comply with national standards. He supports ending the federal Department of Education.

• Veteran's Benefits: He supports funding for veterans' health care and providing health care benefits to all veterans.  We also need to insure that the Veteran's Administration works with and on behalf of our veterans.

• Abortion: As President he would continue to oppose abortion and would submit a budget to Congress with zero funding for planned parenthood and any other similar entities.

This is Jim Clymer, Virgil Goode's Vice President.

(Credits go to http://www.goodeforpresident2012.com/ for the information about Goode.)

Gary Johnson for President and James P. Gray for Vice President?

The next person on the voting ballot for president is candidate Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party.
Health Care-  He said they must repeal the Affordable Care Act NOW. That government-run health simply won't work but competition and price transparency will. Fewer government mandates and less regulation will allow innovation and competition to make health care more affordable and more accessible to all Americans. And removing arbitrary obstacles to interstate competition among health insurance will reduce cost. We also need to allow the states to innovate. Our Current medicare and medicaid systems are unsustainable and must be reformed. He said that in New Mexico, when the state took responsibility for Medicaid, costs were reduced by 25% and services improved. Removing unnecessary federal mandates would have allowed even greater savings. He said there will be federal assistance for those who can't afford essential health care should be provided through simple block grants to the states, where innovation will create efficiencies and better care at less cost.
Foreign Policy- He said we need to bring the troops home. American military activities in Afghanistan should end, our troops returned home, and the focus of our foreign policy reoriented toward the protection of the U.S. citizens and interests. He said that with Osama bin Laden now killed and after 10 years of fighting, U.S. forces should leave Afghanistan's challenged to the Afghan people. That decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, American troops remain scattered throughout Europe. And that the U.S. must take better use of strategic alliances which allow greater sharing of the human and financial burdens at less cost o the protecting national interests. The next way he said is to lead by example. America can achieve out foreign policy goals without sacrificing American Values. He said that no criminal or terrorist suspect captured in the U.S. should be subject to physical or psychological torture. Individuals incarcerated unjustly by the U.S. should have the ability to seek compensation though the courts. And that individuals detained by the U.S., whether it be at Guantanamo Bay or elsewhere, must be given due process via the courts of military tribunals, and must not be held indefinitely without the regard to those fundamental processes.
Energy and Environment- He said we need to stop picking winners and losers in the energy business. Government subsidies and incentives for specific energy resources don't work. Cap and Trade schemes, tax subsidies, and government efforts to steer us to one energy source over another are inherently inefficient, disrupt the market, and ultimately impose costs we cannot afford. Nowhere in the Constitution is the government given the power to manipulate our behavior as consumers or producers of energy. We also must apply common sense to environmental regulations. Essential environmental protection doesn't require destroying jobs, infringing on property rights, or curtailing freedom. Insisting on a basic cost-benefit analysis for regulations will restore an appropriate balance and common sense to environmental policy. Much of what government does in the name of environmental protection is really an effort to impose values on property owners, consumers and individuals. Protecting us from harm does not require the government to manage our lives, our businesses or our farms. 
Immigration- We must simplify legal immigration. Legal immigration strengthens America's economy and the social fabric. It will also strengthen our relationship with our southern neighbor Mexico. It should be easier for a potential immigrant to get a work visa. Potential immigrants should pass a background check, and then be issued a Social Security card, which would allow them to pay income, payroll, and all other taxes workers pay.There should be a two-year grace period for illegal immigrants to attain work visas so they can continue contributing to America and begin taking part in American society openly.Immigrants with temporary work visas should have access to the normal procedures for gaining permanent status and citizenship, and should be able to bring their families to the U.S. after demonstrating ability to support them financially. We also must tackle illegal immigration. Real border security means knowing who is coming here and why. Legalizing marijuana will reduce border violence and illegal immigration significantly, decreasing the U.S.-Mexican drug trade by 70 percent. Without a monopoly on the marijuana trade, Mexican drug cartels will have vastly diminished incentives to violate U.S. law and risk capture. Streamline the legal immigration process to reduce illegal immigration and allow the U.S. to know who enters the country and for what reasons. Enforce a 'one strike, you're out' rule for immigrants who circumvent the streamlined work visa process.
Economy and Taxes- We must cut spending. We must now expect our elected officials to make tough calls that will keep our government on a sustainable path moving forward. We must restrain spending across the board. Revise the terms of entitlement programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, which threaten to bankrupt the nation's future. Eliminate the costly and ineffective military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan; limit defense spending to actions that truly protect the United States. Stop spending on the fiscal stimulus, transportation, energy, housing, and all other special interests. The U.S. must restrain spending across the board. We must also cut taxes. The U.S. tax system imposes and enormous told on productivity though high marginal rates, absurd complexity, loopholes for the well connected, and incentives for wasteful decisions. A better, fairer system will be to abolish the Internal Revenue Service. Enact the Fair Tax to tax expenditures, rather than income, with a 'prebate' to make spending on basic necessities tax free. With the Fair Tax, eliminate business taxes, withholding and other levies that penalize productivity, while creating millions of jobs. We need to reduce federal involvement in the economy. Much federal intervention is a payout to special interests or counterproductive meddling that stifles competition, innovation, and growth.He said we should start rejecting auto and banking bailouts, state bailouts, corporate welfare, cap-and-trade, card check, and the mountain of regulation that protects special interests rather than benefiting consumers or the economy. Restrict Federal Reserve policy to maintaining price stability, not bailing out financial firms or propping up the housing sector. Eliminate government support of Fannie and Freddie. Reduce or eliminate federal involvement in education; let states expand successful reforms such as vouchers and charter schools. Legalize, tax, and regulate marijuana, rather than wasting money on an expensive and futile prohibition. Eliminate needless barriers to free trade and make it easier for would-be legal immigrants to apply for work visas.
 Spending and the Deficit- Johnson says we must balance the budget. The U.S. is borrowing to printing more than 40 cents of every dollar the government spends today. The math is simple: federal spending must be cut not by millions, but by trillions. And it must be done today. It's time to submit a Balanced Budget to Congress, not five or ten years down the road, but in 2013.

• End excessive spending, bloated stimulus programs, unnecessary farm subsidies, and earmarks.
  • Reassess the role of the federal government and identify responsibilities that can be met more efficiently by the private sector.
    • Recognize that you can't have limited government at home, but big government abroad. We must enact responsible entitlement reform. Most people in Washington seem to think that we can control spending and balance the budget without reforming Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. This is lunacy.

Identify and implement common-sense cost savings to place Medicare on a path toward long-term solvency.

• Block grant Medicare and Medicaid funds to the states, allowing them to innovate, find efficiencies and provide better service at lower cost.
  • Repeal President Obama's healthcare plan, as well as the failed Medicare prescription drug benefit.
    • Fix Social Security by changing the escalator from being based on wage growth to inflation. It's time for Social Security to reflect today's realities without breaking trust with retirees. The last thing we need to do is Audit the federal reserve. The federal reserve should be transparent and its actions held to the same level of scrutiny as any federal department.

The American people deserve to know the extent to which the Fed has purchased private assets at home and abroad.

• Many Americans have become interested in the Federal Reserve in recent years. America's representatives in Washington, D.C. need to also become a lot more interested in how this government institution affects the American economy.

• The role and the activities of the Federal Reserve are long overdue for examination, reassessment, and ultimately, thoughtful reform. Can the Federal Reserve pursue both stable prices and full employment, or does its currency manipulation cause malinvestment, inflation, and prolonged unemployment?

• Conduct an audit to provide true transparency of the Federal Reserve's lending practices.

• Establish clear Congressional oversight.

• Get the Federal Reserve out of the business of creating money, quantitative easing and other efforts to override the free market.

Education- We need to give education back to the parents and teachers. If we have local control that means we all win. All parents should have an opportunity to choose which school their children attend. Putting educational funds in the hands of the people who use them gives parents and students a vote as to which schools are best and which need to improve. Our children deserve the chance to succeed educationally, but the same old way of thinking won't cut it. It's time to free individuals and states from burdensome federal mandates and regulations so they can pursue the right educational strategies for their students. We must also end the department of education. Although it may sound drastic, there are practical reasons why it should be considered. The Department of Education grants each state 11 cents out of every dollar it spends on education. Unfortunately, every dollar of this money comes with 16 cents of strings attached. States that accept federal funding lose five cents for every dollar spent on education to pay for federal mandates and regulations, taking millions of dollars out of the classroom. Schools should have the authority to decide how best to spend educational dollars. Without federal regulations and mandates, schools could choose to purchase new computers, better lab equipment, and maintain after-school sports and music programs even during times of tight budgets. Once citizens and their local representatives have the freedom to decide how their educational funds will be spent, they can consider innovations that will drive student choice, educational competition, and better results.

Gary Johnson's vice president is James P. Gray. 

(Credits to http://www.garyjohnson2012.com/front for providing this info.)

Barack Obama for President and Joe Biden for Vice President?

The next person on the voting ballot for president is current President Barack Obama for the Democratic Party.
HealthCare- On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, putting in place comprehensive reforms that improve access to affordable health coverage for everyone and protect consumers from abusive insurance company practices. The law allows all Americans to make health insurance choices that work for them while guaranteeing access to care for our most vulnerable, and provides new ways to bring down costs and improve quality of care. For too long, too many hard working Americans paid the price for policies that handed free rein to insurance companies. President Obama’s health reform law gives hard-working families the security they deserve. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, 3.1 million more young adults have health insurance on their parent’s plan, three million seniors have received a 50 percent discount on their prescription drugs, and millions of Americans now have access to no-cost preventive services to help them stay healthy. Abusive insurance practices are becoming a thing of the past. Additionally, the Affordable Care Act helps small businesses with the cost of providing health insurance for their employees and helps doctors and other health providers care for their patients more effectively. 
Education- Participation in high-quality early learning programs—like Head Start, public and private pre-K, and childcare—will provide children from disadvantaged backgrounds with a strong start and a foundation for school success. These programs also generate a significant return on investment for society; numerous economic studies have documented a rate of return as high as 18 percent on the program investment each year because of a reduced need for spending on other services, such as remedial education, grade repetition, and special education, as well as increased productivity and earnings for these children as adults. President Obama’s comprehensive agenda invests in and strengthens early childhood education for our nation’s youngest children. It helps to prevent achievement gaps before they start, and invests from an early age in children as our most critical national resource. In today’s global economy, a high-quality education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity—it is a prerequisite to success. Because economic progress and educational achievement are inextricably linked, educating every American student to graduate from high school prepared for college and for a career is a national imperative. The President has articulated a goal for America to once again lead the world in college completion by the year 2020, and all of President Obama’s education efforts aim toward this overarching objective.

To create an economy built to last, we need to provide every child with a complete and competitive education that will enable them to succeed in a global economy based on knowledge and innovation. To provide a high-quality education to all American children, President Obama has advanced reforms around four key objectives: 

• Higher standards and better assessments that will prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace
• Ambitious efforts to recruit, prepare, develop, and advance effective teachers and principals, especially in the classrooms where they are most needed
• Smarter data systems to measure student growth and success, and help educators improve instruction
• New attention and a national effort to turn around our lowest-achieving schools.

Immigration- President Obama continues to reiterate his deep commitment to fixing the broken immigration system and outlined his vision for a 21st century immigration policy:

• Responsibility by the federal government to secure our borders:Today, our borders are more secure than at any time in the past several decades, and the Administration continues to refine and strengthen its strategy. Enforcement resources should be focused on preventing those who would do our nation harm from entering our country.
• Accountability for businesses that break the law by undermining American workers and exploiting undocumented workers: Employers who deliberately hire and exploit undocumented workers must be held accountable. At the same time, we must give employers who want to play by the rules a reliable way to verify that their employees are here legally.
• Strengthening our economic competiveness by creating a legal immigration system that reflects our values and diverse needs: Our immigration laws should continue to reunify families and encourage individuals we train in our world-class institutions to stay and develop new technologies and industries in the United States rather than abroad. The law should stop punishing innocent young people whose parents brought them here illegally and give those young men and women a chance to stay in this country if they serve in the military or pursue higher education. A smart 21st century system should also provide farmers a legal way to hire the workers they rely on year after year, and it should improve procedures for employers who seek to hire foreign workers for jobs if U.S. workers are not available.
• Responsibility from people who are living in the United States illegally: Those people living here illegally must also be held accountable for their actions and get on the right side of the law by registering and undergoing national security and criminal background checks, paying taxes and a penalty, and learning English before they can get in line to become eligible for citizenship. Being a citizen of this country comes not only with rights but also with fundamental responsibilities. We can create a pathway for legal status that is fair and reflects our values.

Taxes-

Tax Cuts for Small Businesses

President Obama firmly believes that entrepreneurs and small businesses are engines of economic growth, and that their investments and innovation have been at the forefront of our economic recovery. That’s why he and his Administration have focused on strengthening small businesses by signing into law 18 tax cuts for small businesses. These tax credits are helping small business hire and grow, provide affordable health insurance to employees, and invest in new machinery and equipment.

Tax Reform

The tax code has become increasingly complicated and unfair. Under today’s tax laws, those who can afford expert advice can avoid paying their fair share and interests with the most connected lobbyists can get exemptions and special treatment written into our tax code. While many of the tax incentives serve important purposes, taken together the tax expenditures in the law are inefficient, unfair, duplicative, or even unnecessary.

That is why President Obama has called on Congress to enact comprehensive tax reform that meets the following five principles:

• 1. Lower tax rates.
  The tax system should be simplified and work for all Americans with lower individual and corporate tax rates and fewer brackets.
• 2. Cut inefficient and unfair tax breaks.
  Cut tax breaks that are inefficient, unfair, or both so that the American people and businesses spend less time and less money each year filing taxes and cannot avoid their responsibility by gaming the system. This includes cutting tax preferences for high-income households; eliminating special tax breaks for oil and gas companies; closing loopholes for investment fund managers; and eliminating benefits for corporate jet owners.
• 3. Cut the deficit.
  Cut the deficit by $1.5 trillion over the next decade through tax reform, including the expiration of tax cuts for single taxpayers making over $200,000 and married couples making over $250,000.
• 4. Increase job creation and growth in the United States.
  Make America stronger at home and more competitive globally by increasing the incentive to work and invest in the United States.
• 5. Observe the Buffett Rule.
  As multi-billionaire Warren Buffet has pointed out, his average tax rate is lower than his secretary’s. No household making over $1 million annually should pay a smaller share of their total income in taxes than middle-class families.
  
  
  
  
  
  President Barack Obama's vice president is Joe Biden. 

  
  

  (Credit goes to http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president-obama for providing the info)

Mitt Romney for President and Paul Ryan for Vice President?

The next person on the voting ballot for president is candidate Mitt Romney of the Republican Party.
Education-  

**K-12: Promoting Choice And Innovation- Giving students trapped in bad schools a genuine alternative requires four things: (1) such alternatives must exist, (2) parents must receive clear information about the performance of their current school and of the alternatives, (3) students must be allowed to move to a new school, and (4) students must bring funding with them so that new schools can afford to serve them.  

**K-12: Ensuring High Standards And Responsibility For Results-

Currently, there is little easily-available data for parents about their children’s schools. Mitt’s reforms will provide better information for parents through straightforward public report cards and will empower them to hold districts and states responsible for results. When combined with increased parental choice, this will give parents more control over their children’s education.

**K-12: Recruiting And Rewarding Great Teachers-

A school is only as strong as its teachers, but the most promising teachers often find it difficult to reach the classroom door or receive recognition for their efforts once inside.  Mitt’s reforms smooth the path for talented individuals to join the profession and shape the next generation.

HealthCare- 

On his first day in office, Mitt Romney will issue an executive order that paves the way for the federal government to issue Obamacare waivers to all fifty states. He will then work with Congress to repeal the full legislation as quickly as possible. In place of Obamacare, Mitt will pursue policies that give each state the power to craft a health care reform plan that is best for its own citizens. The federal government’s role will be to help markets work by creating a level playing field for competition. 

**Restore State Leadership and Flexibility-

Mitt will begin by returning states to their proper place in charge of regulating local insurance markets and caring for the poor, uninsured, and chronically ill. States will have both the incentive and the flexibility to experiment, learn from one another, and craft the approaches best suited to their own citizens.

**Promote Free Markets and Fair Competition-

Competition drives improvements in efficiency and effectiveness, offering consumers higher quality goods and services at lower cost.  It can have the same effect in the health care system, if given the chance to work.

**Empower Consumer Choice-

For markets to work, consumers must have the information and the power to make decisions about their own care.  Placing the patient at the center of the process will drive quality up and cost down while ensuring that services are designed to provide what Americans actually want.

Taxes- Reducing and stabilizing federal spending is essential, but breathing life into the present anemic recovery will also require fixing the nation’s tax code to focus on jobs and growth. To repair the nation’s tax code, marginal rates must be brought down to stimulate entrepreneurship, job creation, and investment, while still raising the revenue needed to fund a smaller, smarter, simpler government. The principle of fairness must be preserved in federal tax and spending policy.

**Individual Taxes-

America’s individual tax code applies relatively high marginal tax rates on a narrow tax base. Those high rates discourage work and entrepreneurship, as well as savings and investment. With 54 percent of private sector workers employed outside of corporations, individual rates also define the incentives for job-creating businesses. Lower marginal tax rates secure for all Americans the economic gains from tax reform.

**Corporate Taxes-

The U.S. economy’s 35 percent corporate tax rate is among the highest in the industrial world, reducing the ability of our nation’s businesses to compete in the global economy and to invest and create jobs at home. By limiting investment and growth, the high rate of corporate tax also hurts U.S. wages.

Mitt Romney's vice president is Paul Ryan.

(Credits are given to http://www.mittromney.com/issues for providing this info.)

Jill Stein for President and Cheri Honkala for Vice President?

The next person on the voting ballot for president is candidate Jill Stein of the Green Party.
JOBS-                                                     
**Enact the Full Employment Program which will directly provide 25 million green jobs in sustainable energy, mass transit, sustainable organic agriculture, and clean manufacturing, as well as social work, teaching, and and other service jobs.
**Provide grants and low-interest loans to green businesses and cooperatives, with an emphasis on small, locally-based companies that keep the wealth created by local labor circulating in the community, rather than being drained off to enrich absentee investors.
**Renegotiate NAFTA and other "free trade'' agreements that export American jobs, depress wages, and undermine the sovereign right of Americans and citizens of other countries to control their own economy.

BUDGET AND TAXES-  

• Reduce the budget deficit by restoring full employment, cutting the bloated military budget, and cutting private health insurance waste. 
• Eliminate needless tax giveaways that increase the deficit.
• Require full disclosure of corporate subsidies in the budget and stop hiding subsidies in complicated tax code.  
• Rewrite the entire tax code to be truly progressive with tax cuts for working families, the poor and middle class, and higher taxes for the richest Americans. 
• Reject cuts to Medicare and Social Security.
• Stop draining the non-profit sectors of our economy in order to give tax cuts to the for-profit sectors.
• Relieve the debt overhang holding back the economy by reducing homeowner and student debt burdens.
• Ensure the right to accessible and affordable utilities – heat, electricity, phone, internet, and public transportation – through democratically run, publicly owned utilities that operate at cost, not for profit.
• Maintain and upgrade our nation's essential public infrastructure, including highways, railways, electrical grids, water systems, schools, libraries, and the Internet, resisting privatization or policy manipulation by for-profit interests.
• Establish a 90% tax on bonuses for bailed out bankers.

EDUCATION-

• Provide tuition-free education from kindergarten through college, thus eliminating the student debt crisis.         
• Forgive existing student debt.         
• Protect our public school systems from privatization         
• End high-stakes testing and stop punishing students and teachers for failures of the system in which they work. 
• Stop denying students diplomas based on tests.  
• Stop using merit pay to punish teachers.   

HEALTH CARE-

• Provide complete, affordable, quality health care for every American through an improved Medicare-for-all insurance program.        
• Allow full access to all medically justified contraceptive and reproductive care. 
• Expand women's access to the "morning after" contraception by lifting the Obama Administration's ban.         
• Roll back the community drivers of chronic disease, including poor nutrition, health-damaging pollution, and passive dirty transportation.     
• Avoid chronic diseases by investing in essential community health infrastructure such as local, fresh, organic food systems, pollution-free renewable energy, phasing out toxic chemicals, and active transportation such as bike paths and safe sidewalks that dovetail with public transit.
• End overcharging for prescription drugs by using bulk purchasing negotiations.
• Ensure that consumers have essential information for making informed food choices by expanding product labeling requirements for country of origin, GMO content, toxic chemical ingredients, fair trade practices, etc.  

ENVIRONMENT-

• Create millions of green jobs in areas such as weatherization, recycling, public transportation, worker and community owned cooperatives, and energy-efficient infrastructure.
• Adopt the EPA's new tougher standards on ozone pollution.          
• Promote conversion to sustainable, nontoxic materials.    
• Promote use of closed-loop, zero waste processes.  
• Promote organic agriculture, permaculture, and sustainable forestry.

IMMIGRATION-

• Grant undocumented immigrants who are already residing and working in the United States a legal status which includes the chance to become U.S. citizens. 
• Halt deportations of law-abiding undocumented immigrants.
• Repeal the deceptively named Secure Communities Act. 
• Improve economic conditions abroad to reduce flow of immigrants, in part by repealing NAFTA.
• Demilitarize border crossings throughout North America.   
• End the war on immigrants, including the cruel, so-called “secure communities” program

Jill Stein's vice president is Cheri Honkala.

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