Atlas Forum '08: February 8-11 (user search)

Leitch flies to Denver, Colorado to annouce his platform 'We hold these truths' A New Republican Revolution

Abortion: I support in the right to access to an abortion in the first trimester. I believe abortion should be an issue for the states but I understand that 'half-truth' lobbyists would seek and absolute ban on abortion and believe that we need to keep Roe v Wade at the present time.

Balanced Budget: I believe all federal spending should be capped to inflationary rises during the first 2 years of my presidency. At the same time I will launch a 'National Audit' of our incomings and outgoings and report on these by the year 2010. I want a transparent government. We will then budget according and translate savings into tax cuts for the middle class.

Business Tax: Taxation will be cut. Enterprise Zones will be established in deprived areas to encourage businesses to establish there and increase start up rates for local businesses.

Education: Expand on and improve on the state system while bringing free enterprise into state schools by encouraging the twinning of schools with businesses to provide jobs. I also support the development of trade and craft apprenticeship schemes.

Energy: Support energy independence and clean fuel. I also support tax cuts for households and farms who produce their own energy which can then be sold back into the natrional grid.

Environment: Support local recycling initiatives and clean water. Will propose a summit of western nations and the developing industrial world to cut CO2 emissions independently of Kyoto.

Gun Control: This is an issue for the states. I will veto any pro or anti legislation that passes Congress.

Health Care: I support comprehensive coverage through insurance and will initiate cross party and lobbyist free talks on increasing coverage.

Homeland Security: The Patriot Act is un-American. It will be repealed. I will tough on terror at home and abroad.

Immigration: Will support regulated immigration. Will grant amnesty to aliens who have been residents of the US for 5 years, have clean criminal records and who have worked for at least 4 of those 5 years.

Iran: We will talk. Support a pan middle-eastern conference atended by ourselves and our allies, including Israel on the issue of Iran, terror and Palestine.

Iraq War: Will reduce troops and leave only a minimal anti-terror cell and administrative presence.

Personal Tax: Will seek abolish income tax for all those earning less than $20000 dollars a year after the National Audit to encourage people into work. Will roll back EITC's as a balance and allow the working poor to keep more of their money.

Same Sex Marriage: I support civil unions but these are state concerns. I will veto any pro or anti bill that passes Congress.

Unions: Unions are not incompatable with the American way. I support the right of workers to form and join unions but oppose any militaristic industrial action or bullying and co-ercion of union memebership by the top brass.

War on Terrorism: Turn our attention to Afghanistan. Will seek to fragment and smash the Al Qaeda alliance and address imbalance in the Middle East through democratic means and humanitarian aid.

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