Energy - working to restore a free-market in energy. Believes that Congress should repeal federal regulations and taxes that impede the development of new energy sources.
Border Security and Immigration Reform - "We must secure our borders now. A nation without secure borders is no nation at all. It makes no sense to fight terrorists abroad when our own doors are left unlocked."
War and Foreign Policy - "The war in Iraq was sold to us with false information. The area is more dangerous now than when we entered it. We destroyed a regime hated by our direct enemies, the jihadists, and created thousands of new recruits for them."
Veterans - "Any nation willing to ask its men and women to risk their lives serving overseas must also be willing to fulfill the promises that were made to them when they enlisted in our country’s service. We cannot provide adequate care with a VA that is run like the IRS."
Property Rights and Eminent Domain - "We must stop special interests from violating property rights and literally driving families from their homes, farms and ranches."
Privacy and Personal Liberty - "The biggest threat to your privacy is the government. We must drastically limit the ability of government to collect and store data regarding citizens’ personal matters."
Health Care - "The federal government decided long ago that it knew how to manage your health care better than you and replaced personal responsibility and accountability with a system that puts corporate interests first." (He's a doctor)
Home Schooling - "My commitment to ensuring home schooling remains a practical alternative for American families is especially important..."
National Defense - "A defense policy designed to keep Americans safe should start with the idea that we must secure our borders from those who would cross them to do us harm."
Social Security - "Imposing any tax on Social Security benefits is unfair and illogical. In Congress, I have introduced the Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act (H.R. 191), which repeals ALL taxes on Social Security benefits, to eliminate political theft of our seniors’ income and raise their standard of living. Solvency is the key to keeping our promise to our seniors, and I have introduced the Social Security Preservation Act (H.R. 219) to ensure that money paid into the system is only used for Social Security."
Education - "The federal government has no constitutional authority to fund or control schools. I want to abolish the unconstitutional, wasteful Department of Education and return its functions to the states. By removing the federal subsidies that inflate costs, schools can be funded by local taxes, and parents and teachers can directly decide how best to allocate the resources. "
American Independence and Sovereignty - "So called free trade deals and world governmental organizations like the International Criminal Court (ICC), NAFTA, GATT, WTO, are a threat to our independence as a nation."
Life and Liberty - "The right of an innocent, unborn child to life is at the heart of the American ideals of liberty. My professional and legislative record demonstrates my strong commitment to this pro-life principle."
Debt and Taxes - "Whether a tax cut reduces a single mother’s payroll taxes by $40 a month or allows a business owner to save thousands in capital gains taxes and hire more employees, that tax cut is a good thing. Lower taxes allow more spending, saving, and investing which helps the economy - that means all of us. Real conservatives have always supported low taxes and low spending."
The Second Amendment - "I share our Founders’ belief that in a free society each citizen must have the right to keep and bear arms."
Environment - "I consistently vote against using tax dollars to subsidize logging in National Forests... I am a co-sponsor of legislation designed to encourage the development of alternative and sustainable energy... I am a member of the Congressional Green Scissors Coalition, a bipartisan caucus devoted to ending taxpayer subsidies of projects that harm the environment for the benefit of special interests. "
The Inflation Tax - "The disastrous fiscal policies of our own government, marked by shameless deficit spending and Federal Reserve currency devaluation, are some of the greatest threats facing our nation today. It is this one-two punch - Congress spending more than it can tax or borrow, and the Treasury printing money to make up the difference - that threatens to impoverish us by further destroying the value of our dollars. By legalizing competing currencies, we can end the Federal Reserve’s stranglehold on our money supply and begin to restore value to the dollar. But Congress will continue to spend extravagantly until we the people make our views known at the ballot box."
Voted against bailout.
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