Gary Bauer on the Issues
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Key and General Description of Political Views
Gary Bauer (Republican) Web Site
Abortion
I've got a 30-year record on
this. I'm serious. I will end abortion on demand in my first presidential term.
-- Iowa GOP Debates
Budget/Economy
No statements on record.
Civil Rights
"In America, you’re given a great degree of choices on how you live. But
when it comes to what the law recognizes and wants to encourage, it should be
the intact family that brings a man and a woman together in marriage." --
AP 7/799
Crime
"I believe gambling destroys
marriages and families, discourages hard, honest work and increases crime. This
does not profit America. As President, I will work to curb the growth and spread
of legalized gambling." -- www.bauer2k.com
Defense
"I support immediate deployment
of an anti-ballistic missile system to defend the American people, as well as
theater missile defense to protect our troops and our allies overseas. We must
take immediate steps to upgrade a U.S. military that has been hollowed out by
Clinton-era cutbacks." --
www.bauer2k.com
Drugs
We must firmly resist the legalization of
narcotics, including marijuana and other 'soft' drugs. I support incarceration
of narcotics offenders, including chronic users. We must be alert to new forms
and patterns of drug abuse, such as the disturbing plague of methamphetamines in
the American heartland. We need to encourage the use of faith-based
rehabilitation programs, and redouble our efforts to interdict the flow of drugs
across our borders. -- www.bauer2k.com
Education
I agree that the majority of the American people believe that God had a hand in
the creation of life on earth. Evolution is a theory; yet it’s taught in our
schools as if it cannot be questioned. The American people want their children
exposed to both of those ideas. That’s what an education ought to be about:
presenting to young people a variety of choices and let them make the decision.
-- Iowa GOP debate 12/13/99
Environment
Private property has been under assault and
property rights have been whittled away. The Secretary of Interior [said] that
property rights as we know them are dead. I would reverse this trend by assuring
that the constitutional limitations on federal power, the Tenth Amendment and
the "takings clause" of the Fifth Amendment are being observed and by
making sure that regulations do not cost more than the benefits they achieve. --
www.bauer2k.com
Families/Children
Clinton’s child-care plan
ignores the fact that most Americans who do seek help with child care choose a
relative or neighbor, not the local Kid Corral. Less than a third of all
children younger than five rely on an organized facility for day care, and twice
as many poor Americans (those making less than $10,000 a year) have their
children cared for by relatives than do the rich. [The Clinton plan] disregards
the preferences of the working poor. -- intellectualCapitol.com/issues
Foreign Policy
America is, in my view, a nation
with a calling. America’s prime purpose in the world should be not only our
own national defense, but to advance and protect the cause of freedom. I don’t
think this is utopianism. I don’t think it’s some starry-eyed view of far
away crusades. I believe it’s a view born of the deepest, and most profound
kind of realism. And more than that, it is key to American history. And I
believe it has got to be the center of American foreign policy now. -- Speech at
Harvard 4/13/99
Free Trade
The politicians pulled another
fast one. They said to farmers: We’re going to put you more at risk in the
international marketplace. But in exchange, we’re going to fight to open up
markets around the world. They did not keep their end of the bargain. Europeans
keep our beef out with this excuse about growth hormones. They keep Iowa corn
out because of genetic engineering. European governments fight to protect their
farmers. We need a government that will fight to protect American farmers. --
Iowa GOP debate
Government Reform
Large contributions from either
big labor or big business to the two political parties are corrupting. It’s
one thing for somebody to donate $1,000, which is the Federal limit, but when a
corporation or a union can write a two million or a five million check to the
Republican Party or to the Democratic Party, we all know that that buys access
that no average American can meet. So I will support having campaign reform that
gets at the special interest in both parties. I think we need to do it. --
Arizona GOP debate
Gun Control
Eighteen gun laws were violated
that day in Littleton, Colorado. I don’t think anyone believes a 19th or 20th
is going to stop the tragedies that we are seeing. -- CNN 5/10/99
Health Care
Human life has dignity at every
age; the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at
every level of government must reject any scheme to permit or promote assisted
suicide and euthanasia. We must encourage new efforts to assist patients
approaching the end of life to cope with their pain through medical,
psychological, and social means. -- www.bauer2k.com
Schools
Q: What would you do about the
growing disparity between technological haves and have-nots? A: We’ve got a
real disparity in American education. Many of the suburbs have a lot of
resources. But in the inner cities, we’ve got schools that just aren’t
working. [We should] provide educational choice for those parents. Vouchers will
make real progress on this issue so that we don’t have another whole
generation left behind on one of the most important advances that the country is
experiencing. -- Debate at Dartmouth College 10/29/99
Social Security
Cut payroll taxes 20% as part of
Social Security reform. -- www.bauer2k.com
Tax Reform
Q: Do you favor a flat tax? A:
With a flat tax, what you describe as income becomes all-important. And how you
see America’s wealth being created is all-important. My flat tax proposal
recognizes that the real wealth of America is in our families. I have a 16%
across-the-board rate. You would be able to keep your mortgage deduction and
your charitable deduction. And everybody would pay the 16%, the waitress and the
corporation. -- Debate at Dartmouth College 10/29/99
Welfare/Labor
I strongly support the heroic
work being done by churches, non-profits, and people of faith and compassion to
reach out to drug addicts, prisoners, and women facing problem pregnancies. For
example, the Step Academy [in VA] helps inner city men and women through a
two-year job and skills training program. The Jobs Partnership [in NC] similarly
provides a dynamic private sector alternative to bureaucratic government
management. As President, I will encourage and expand these efforts. -- www.bauer2k.com
- Al Gore (Democrat)
- Alan Keyes (Republican)
- Bill Bradley (Democrat)
- George W. Bush (Republican)
- Harry Browne (Libertarian)
- Howard Phillips (Constitution)
- John McCain (Republican)
- Pat Buchanan (Reform)
- Steve Forbes (Republican)
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