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.
- Reassess the role of the federal government and identify responsibilities that can be met more efficiently by the private sector.
- 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.
- Repeal President Obama's healthcare plan, as well as the failed Medicare prescription drug benefit.
- 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.
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