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Re: Texas GOP platform: criminalize gay marriage and ban sodomy, outlaw strip clubs and pornography |
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Posted by PHXTUSbusfan on Tue Feb 8 00:42:00 2011, in response to Re: Texas GOP platform: criminalize gay marriage and ban sodomy, outlaw strip clubs and pornography, posted by Easy on Tue Feb 8 00:23:26 2011. No. I'm not undecided.I'm generally for limited government intervention and regulation. I'm anti gun control. I'm for eliminating a lot of regulations surrounding small businesses. I support the privatization of non-core government services such as (transit, sewer, water, gas, electricity, information technology, etc.). I support environmental regulation that also factors in the economic impact of that regulation. I support the abolition of the minimum wage. I support the legalization of most illegal drugs, in part to reduce the crime rate and also stop subsidizing drug offenders by providing them free healthcare and housing. However, I support increased sentencing for people who commit other crimes while under the influence of drugs. I support the government getting out of the marriage business altogether and considering only civil unions to be a legal basis (a civil union can be between two people gay or straight or whatever). I'm in favor of limiting military spending and adopting more of an isolationist stance where the only military action would be to protect vital US interests overseas. I'm in favor of investing in alternative energy sources, not to combat global warming, but as a national security issue. I support treating medical insurance like car insurance, where there is an open market system and STATES (and not the federal government) require people to purchase health insurance. This would eliminate the current employer-based system. Like auto insurance, there would be state-minimum limits of coverage that one would have to purchase. Also, pre-existing conditions would only be excluded if there was a lapse in coverage (so as to prevent free-loaders from the system). Whatever someone contributes to their own personal health insurance would be tax deductible. As far as Medicare, I support putting money aside into tax-free medical savings accounts that would help supplement medical insurance expenses for people after the age of 65. I would also replace Medicaid with a combination of incentives for local, non-profit clinics as well as the creation of a hospital-uninsured fund to help recoup hospital expenses for the uninsured. I favor states levying fines upon people who end up at the hospital without health insurance. I am pro choice. I am against the death penalty because I believe that the current court system is imperfect and there is no way to bring someone back from the dead if they were wrongly executed. I'm in favor of privatizing social security. Etc.... |
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