Joint Libertarian interview with Gary Johnson & Bill Weld


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OnTheIssues.org excerpts:  (click on issues for details)

Abortion     Bill Weld: Clinic access is guarding a fundamental constitutional right.     Gary Johnson: Law of the land is Casey v. Planned Parenthood; I'll keep it.     Gary Johnson: Planned Parenthood does a lot of good.

Budget & Economy     Bill Weld: Cut 20% waste in every federal agency.

Civil Rights     Bill Weld: 1990s: Established MA African Caribbean American commission.     Bill Weld: I led Massachusetts on gay rights, and MA led America.     Bill Weld: Marriage equality is dictated by equal protection clause.

Corporations     Gary Johnson: Zero corporate tax would create tens of millions of jobs.

Crime     Bill Weld: Prosecute police for civil rights violations.     Gary Johnson: What are some local police doing that others aren't?     Bill Weld: Prosecuted organized crime for 7 years in Justice Department.     Gary Johnson: Men of color four times as likely to end up behind bars.

Drugs     Bill Weld: Tighten opioid prescription rules to keep them off streets.     Gary Johnson: Mass shootings result from War on Drugs "shoot first" notion.     Gary Johnson: Harm reduction strategies for heroin but no legalization.     Bill Weld: Substance abuse cases should not go to criminal prison.     Gary Johnson: No legalization of heroin, but apply harm reduction.

Education     Gary Johnson: Most outspoken governor in the country on school choice.

Energy & Oil     Bill Weld: Carbon capture & sequestration technology for global warming.     Bill Weld: Carbon trading credits but no carbon tax.

Foreign Policy     Bill Weld: Focus on nuclear proliferation & the Sunni-Shia schism.

Free Trade     Bill Weld: Tariffs in 1920s croaked the world economy.     Gary Johnson: Free trade unfairly criticized for being crony capitalism.

Gun Control     Gary Johnson: Banning assault weapons just criminalizes the owners.     Gary Johnson: Keep guns away from mentally ill & potential terrorists.     Gary Johnson: No-fly list is error-prone; don't use it to deny guns.

Health Care     Bill Weld: Likes health savings accounts & more competition.     Gary Johnson: Let states experiment with Medicare & Medicaid rules.     Gary Johnson: Run Medicare and Medicaid via states and municipalities.     Gary Johnson: Free market reduces prices with places like "Stitches R Us".     Gary Johnson: Catastrophic insurance ok; then free-market for the rest.

Homeland Security     Bill Weld: Take on ISIS with FBI task forces, like we took on the Mafia.     Bill Weld: Pardon Snowden; no one was harmed by what he released.     Bill Weld: Phase down our nuclear stockpile.     Gary Johnson: No-fly lists subject to error; use airport security instead.     Gary Johnson: Turn NSA satellites away from United States.     Gary Johnson: Pardon Snowden; no one was harmed by what he released.     Gary Johnson: Cut 20% of military bases in US and abroad.     Bill Weld: Treat ISIS as a gigantic organized crime family.     Bill Weld: Nuclear proliferation is #1 threat to world security.     Bill Weld: Maintain invincible defense but cut military 20%.

Immigration     Bill Weld: Fear-mongering about immigrants is like Nazi round-ups.     Gary Johnson: Deporting 11M illegal immigrants is based on misinformation.     Gary Johnson: Make work visas as easy as possible.

Jobs     Gary Johnson: Why not $75? We can't afford minimum wage.

Principles & Values     Bill Weld: Chaired Mitt Romney presidential campaign in New York.     Gary Johnson: Socially tolerant: let people make their own choices.     Gary Johnson: The God that I speak to doesn't have a particular religion.

Social Security     Gary Johnson: Change eligibility rules for Medicare; and age for Soc.Sec.     Gary Johnson: Raise retirement age to 75.

Tax Reform     Bill Weld: Cut taxes without abolishing the IRS.     Gary Johnson: Revenue-neutral FairTax: life without the IRS.

War & Peace     Gary Johnson: Leave Afghanistan now or Taliban comes back when we do leave.     Gary Johnson: North Korea has no conventional threat; China deal on ICBMs.     Bill Weld: Don't intervene abroad when people are mean to each other.     Gary Johnson: ISIS has grown as a result of U.S. intervention in Mideast.     Gary Johnson: No U.S. military intervention in Syria.

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