lx43
09-24-2010, 11:30 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Miller_(Alaska_politician)
Should RP movement support him?
Institute spending reduction measures including: A balanced budget amendment: Congress would have to submit a balanced budget to the president for signature. Expenditures that exceed receipts would require a three-fifths majority. End off-budget expenditures: Receipts and disbursement from the Social Security Trust Funds, and general accounting for the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, would be included within the federal budget. Line-item veto: A Constitutional Amendment to authorize the president to veto specific spending items. Require that unspent and repaid TARP funds be used to reduce the deficit: All unspent and repaid funds would be required to be used to reduce the deficit and pay down the National Debt. No New Entitlements: Would institute a moratorium on the creation of new entitlements. Limit increases in government spending to the rate of inflation: The federal government would be required to cap spending to the rate of inflation plus the percentage of population growth. Hiring freeze for all non-essential government employees. Establish a Sunset Committee: This committee would scrutinize federal programs to determine if they are necessary and where they can be cut. Earmark Reform: Would place a moratorium on all earmarks until the budget is balanced, and then require a 2/3 majority to pass any earmark. Additionally, budget requests by members of Congress would be subject to the public hearings process.
Make Congressional Reforms including: Constitutional Authority—each bill would be required to specify the provision in the Constitution that gives to Congress the power to do what the bill does. Limitation of Scope—Each bill would pertain to only one issue. There would be no "Omnibus" bills. Neither would amendments be considered that do not pertain to the subject of the bill. Regular Order—Would reinstitute open rules for appropriations bills, allowing for unlimited amendments and debate.
Favors removing the federal government as the social security provider, and giving each of the states the authority to decide if they will provide social security type benefits and, if so, to oversee this role. “Longer term, there has got to be a move outside of that (federal social security) system. Ultimately we want to transfer the power back to the states so that states can take up the mantle of those programs if they so desire.”[19]
Eliminate the Department of Education[20]
Reduce American foreign aid[21]
Repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.[21]
Opposes cuts to Medicare or Social Security benefits for current retirees.[21] He supports privatizing (or, as he says, "personalizing") Social Security and Medicare for younger workers.[22][23]
Refers to scientific evidence for Global warming as "dubious at best."[24][25]
Opposes abortion, including for rape and incest, and favors it "only when the mother's life is in danger."[26] He describes himself as pro-life, and defines the term life as the time "from the moment of conception to the time of natural death".[27]
Cut the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts [21]
Cut the budget of American funding for the United Nations[21]
Should RP movement support him?
Institute spending reduction measures including: A balanced budget amendment: Congress would have to submit a balanced budget to the president for signature. Expenditures that exceed receipts would require a three-fifths majority. End off-budget expenditures: Receipts and disbursement from the Social Security Trust Funds, and general accounting for the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, would be included within the federal budget. Line-item veto: A Constitutional Amendment to authorize the president to veto specific spending items. Require that unspent and repaid TARP funds be used to reduce the deficit: All unspent and repaid funds would be required to be used to reduce the deficit and pay down the National Debt. No New Entitlements: Would institute a moratorium on the creation of new entitlements. Limit increases in government spending to the rate of inflation: The federal government would be required to cap spending to the rate of inflation plus the percentage of population growth. Hiring freeze for all non-essential government employees. Establish a Sunset Committee: This committee would scrutinize federal programs to determine if they are necessary and where they can be cut. Earmark Reform: Would place a moratorium on all earmarks until the budget is balanced, and then require a 2/3 majority to pass any earmark. Additionally, budget requests by members of Congress would be subject to the public hearings process.
Make Congressional Reforms including: Constitutional Authority—each bill would be required to specify the provision in the Constitution that gives to Congress the power to do what the bill does. Limitation of Scope—Each bill would pertain to only one issue. There would be no "Omnibus" bills. Neither would amendments be considered that do not pertain to the subject of the bill. Regular Order—Would reinstitute open rules for appropriations bills, allowing for unlimited amendments and debate.
Favors removing the federal government as the social security provider, and giving each of the states the authority to decide if they will provide social security type benefits and, if so, to oversee this role. “Longer term, there has got to be a move outside of that (federal social security) system. Ultimately we want to transfer the power back to the states so that states can take up the mantle of those programs if they so desire.”[19]
Eliminate the Department of Education[20]
Reduce American foreign aid[21]
Repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.[21]
Opposes cuts to Medicare or Social Security benefits for current retirees.[21] He supports privatizing (or, as he says, "personalizing") Social Security and Medicare for younger workers.[22][23]
Refers to scientific evidence for Global warming as "dubious at best."[24][25]
Opposes abortion, including for rape and incest, and favors it "only when the mother's life is in danger."[26] He describes himself as pro-life, and defines the term life as the time "from the moment of conception to the time of natural death".[27]
Cut the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts [21]
Cut the budget of American funding for the United Nations[21]