[Vision2020] Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate

[Paul Rumelhart]

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