| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details)
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Budget & Economy
New Prosperity Initiative: remove obstacles to advancement.
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Civil Rights
GOP to reach out with goal of prosperity for all races.
Enforce civil rights, reform education, help people achieve.
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Drugs
Feds must help border counties fight drug traffickers.
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Education
‘Reading First’ confronts a national emergency.
Federal funding & flexible state design for Reading First.
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Environment
6-point plan for brownfield cleanup.
Superfund failing: too costly; too litigious; too complex.
Texas record: cleaner air & water; toxic cleanup.
Incentives for private land stewardship & conservation.
Conservation partnerships to protect lands & watersheds.
$60M for private stewardship; tax break on conservation land.
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Families & Children
$2.3 billion over 5 years for adoption & child welfare.
Support measures to keep children in their homes.
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Free Trade
Agrees with Clinton-Gore: PNTR for China.
China NTR promotes freedom, security and economics.
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Government Reform
Reform the court system to serve people, not lawyers.
Restore cooperation with Congress, to accomplish more.
Make govt citizen-centered, results-oriented & market-based.
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Gun Control
Government should pay for voluntary trigger locks.
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Health Care
New Prosperity Initiative: $2,000 health ins. tax credit.
Expand and Reform Medical Savings Accounts:.
$7.4B for nursing home insurance via tax deductions.
Affordable long-term care instead of financial ruin.
More funding for disability assistance.
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Homeland Security
Increase military salaries & weapons spending.
Develop SDI, even if we must breach ABM treaty.
SDI needed for defense against rogue states & terrorists.
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Immigration
Latinos enrich us; family values go past Rio Grande.
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Social Security
Maintain basics of government’s “most successful program”.
2% real return is not enough; sound investments get 6%.
Support retirement via government-plus-private system.
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Tax Reform
Proposes tax cuts of $483B over 5 years.
Lower tax rates to 10%-25%-33%; end inheritance tax.
New Prosperity Initiative: 6 million tax-free families.
Reduce share of tax burden on low- and middle-income.
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Welfare & Poverty
New Prosperity Initiative: rent vouchers; homeowner credits.
$1B & tax credits for Individual Development Accounts.
$1.7B over 5 years for home rehabs in poor neighborhoods.
Use financial incentives for social needs via private sector.
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