| Jobs |
Newt Gingrich - R
Website
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No Running Mate Selected |
| Jobs, a General Statement |
Gingrich: America only works when Americans are working. Newt has a pro-growth strategy similar to the proven policies used when he was Speaker to balance the budget, pay down the debt, and create jobs. The plan includes:
Stop the 2013 tax increases to promote stability in the economy. Job creation improved after Congress extended tax relief for two years in December. We should make the rates permanent.
Make the United States the most desirable location for new business investment through a bold series of tax cuts, including: Eliminating the capital gains tax to make American entrepreneurs more competitive against those in other countries; Dramatically reducing the corporate income tax (among highest in the world) to 12.5%; Allowing for 100% expensing of new equipment to spur innovation and American manufacturing; Ending the death tax permanently.
Move toward an optional flat tax of 15% that would allow Americans to file their taxes on a postcard. This optional flat tax system will preserve deductions on charitable giving and home ownership, and create a new personal deduction of $12,000 for every American.
Strengthen the dollar by returning to the Reagan-era monetary policies that stopped runaway inflation and reforming the Federal Reserve to promote transparency.
Remove obstacles to job creation imposed by destructive and ineffective regulations, programs and bureaucracies.
Implement an American energy policy that removes obstacles to responsible energy development and creates jobs in the United States.
Balance the budget by growing the economy, controlling spending, implementing money saving reforms, and replacing destructive policies and regulatory agencies with new approaches.
Repeal and replace Obamacare with a pro-jobs, pro-responsibility health plan that puts doctors and patients in charge of health decisions instead of bureaucrats.
Fundamental reform of entitlement programs with the advice and help of the American people.
Source: www.newt.org/solutions/jobs-economy (10/31/2011) |
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| Working Class |
| Foreign Job Outsourcing |
| Affirmative Action |
| Workplace Violence Against Women |
| Independent Workers |
| Equal Pay Act |
| Paid Sick, Family and Maternity Leave |
| Family and Medical Leave Act |
| Unemployment Insurance |
| Workplace Protections |
| Mine Safety and Health |
| Job Growth |
| Government Subsidized Jobs |
| Reward companies that create domestic jobs |
| Child Labor |
| Quality of Jobs |
| Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) |
| Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) |
| Unemployment Insurance (UI) |
| Workers Benefits |
| Overtime Rights |
| Employment Discrimination |
| Retirees Returning To Work |
| Jobs |
Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. - R
Website
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No Running Mate Selected |
| These are available issue topics for which there were no responses. |
| Jobs, a General Statement |
| Working Class |
| Foreign Job Outsourcing |
| Affirmative Action |
| Workplace Violence Against Women |
| Independent Workers |
| Equal Pay Act |
| Paid Sick, Family and Maternity Leave |
| Family and Medical Leave Act |
| Unemployment Insurance |
| Workplace Protections |
| Mine Safety and Health |
| Job Growth |
| Government Subsidized Jobs |
| Reward companies that create domestic jobs |
| Child Labor |
| Quality of Jobs |
| Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) |
| Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) |
| Unemployment Insurance (UI) |
| Workers Benefits |
| Overtime Rights |
| Employment Discrimination |
| Retirees Returning To Work |
| Jobs |
Ron Paul - R
Website
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No Running Mate Selected |
| Affirmative Action |
Paul: All rights are individuals. We do not get our rights because we belong to a group. Whether it's homosexuals, women, minorities, it leads us astray. You don't get your rights belonging to your group. A group can't force themselves on anybody else. So there should be no affirmative action for any group.
Source: GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate (09/17/2007) |
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| These are available issue topics for which there were no responses. |
| Jobs, a General Statement |
| Working Class |
| Foreign Job Outsourcing |
| Workplace Violence Against Women |
| Independent Workers |
| Equal Pay Act |
| Paid Sick, Family and Maternity Leave |
| Family and Medical Leave Act |
| Unemployment Insurance |
| Workplace Protections |
| Mine Safety and Health |
| Job Growth |
| Government Subsidized Jobs |
| Reward companies that create domestic jobs |
| Child Labor |
| Quality of Jobs |
| Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) |
| Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) |
| Unemployment Insurance (UI) |
| Workers Benefits |
| Overtime Rights |
| Employment Discrimination |
| Retirees Returning To Work |
| Jobs |
Rick Perry - R
Website
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No Running Mate Selected |
| Jobs, a General Statement |
Perry: No other candidate for President - Republican or Democrat - can match Rick Perry's record on job creation.
Rick Perry's leadership has helped build the nation's top economy. Since June 2009, more than 40 percent of all net new jobs in America have been created in Texas.
He cut taxes, including a historic property tax cut and a tax cut for small businesses. He established incentive funds to encourage employers to create thousands of jobs and invest in new technology. And he signed budgets that invest billions more in education, as well as some of the strongest lawsuit reforms in the country - including a "loser pay" law - to help create jobs.
Rick Perry's support for low taxes, reasonable regulations, a predictable civil litigation system and an educated workforce has produced a job climate consistently ranked the best in the nation.
Perry's pro-growth agenda, combined with real spending reductions, will lead to a new era of economic growth and the creation of millions of American jobs.
Source: www.rickperry.org/issues (10/29/2011) |
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| These are available issue topics for which there were no responses. |
| Working Class |
| Foreign Job Outsourcing |
| Affirmative Action |
| Workplace Violence Against Women |
| Independent Workers |
| Equal Pay Act |
| Paid Sick, Family and Maternity Leave |
| Family and Medical Leave Act |
| Unemployment Insurance |
| Workplace Protections |
| Mine Safety and Health |
| Job Growth |
| Government Subsidized Jobs |
| Reward companies that create domestic jobs |
| Child Labor |
| Quality of Jobs |
| Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) |
| Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) |
| Unemployment Insurance (UI) |
| Workers Benefits |
| Overtime Rights |
| Employment Discrimination |
| Retirees Returning To Work |
| Jobs |
Buddy Roemer - R
Website
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No Running Mate Selected |
| Jobs, a General Statement |
Roemer: America is suffering, with 20 percent of its workforce -25 million people - out of work, underemployed, or no longer even holding on to the hope of finding a job. We have a million fewer jobs than we did 12 years ago and the jobs we have, pay less. "Made in America" is an endangered species. As president, any policy Buddy Roemer considers will first be evaluated through the lens of the impact it could have on American jobs created or lost.
In order to restore jobs in America, we must restore America's industrial prominence. The only way to do so is to establish legitimate and reasonable economic barriers to unfair competition from abroad.
Source: www.buddyroemer.com/issues (01/09/2012) |
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| These are available issue topics for which there were no responses. |
| Working Class |
| Foreign Job Outsourcing |
| Affirmative Action |
| Workplace Violence Against Women |
| Independent Workers |
| Equal Pay Act |
| Paid Sick, Family and Maternity Leave |
| Family and Medical Leave Act |
| Unemployment Insurance |
| Workplace Protections |
| Mine Safety and Health |
| Job Growth |
| Government Subsidized Jobs |
| Reward companies that create domestic jobs |
| Child Labor |
| Quality of Jobs |
| Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) |
| Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) |
| Unemployment Insurance (UI) |
| Workers Benefits |
| Overtime Rights |
| Employment Discrimination |
| Retirees Returning To Work |
| Jobs |
Mitt Romney - R
Website
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No Running Mate Selected |
| Jobs, a General Statement |
Romney: I don't want to cost jobs. My priority is jobs. And so what I do is I bring down the tax rates, lower deductions and exemptions, the same idea behind Bowles-Simpson, by the way, get the rates down, lower deductions and exemptions, to create more jobs, because there's nothing better for getting us to a balanced budget than having more people working, earning more money, paying more taxes. That's by far the most effective and efficient way to get this budget balanced.
My priority is putting people back to work in America. They're suffering in this country. And we talk about evidence. Look at the evidence of the last four years. It's absolutely extraordinary. We've got 23 million people out of work or stopped looking for work in this country. It's just -- it's -- we've got -- when the president took office, 32 million people on food stamps; 47 million on food stamps today; economic growth this year slower than last year, and last year slower than the year before.
Going forward with the status quo is not going to cut it for the American people who are struggling today.
I agree: Education is key, particularly the future of our economy. But our training programs right now, we've got 47 of them, housed in the federal government, reporting to eight different agencies. Overhead is overwhelming. We've got to get those dollars back to the states and go to the workers so they can create their own pathways to get in the training they need for jobs that will really help them.
Source: abcnews.go.com/
Politics/OTUS/presidential-debate-transcript-denver-colo-oct (10/08/2012) |
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| Foreign Job Outsourcing |
Romney: "I'm not happy exporting jobs but we must move ahead in technology and patents. I don't like losing any jobs but we'll see new opportunities created selling products there. We'll have a net increase in economic activity, just as we did with free trade. It's tempting to want to protect our markets and stay closed. But at some point it all comes crashing down and you're hopelessly left behind. Then you are Russia."
Source: Forrester Research executive strategy summit
in Boston, MA, (10/12/2012) |
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| These are available issue topics for which there were no responses. |
| Working Class |
| Affirmative Action |
| Workplace Violence Against Women |
| Independent Workers |
| Equal Pay Act |
| Paid Sick, Family and Maternity Leave |
| Family and Medical Leave Act |
| Unemployment Insurance |
| Workplace Protections |
| Mine Safety and Health |
| Job Growth |
| Government Subsidized Jobs |
| Reward companies that create domestic jobs |
| Child Labor |
| Quality of Jobs |
| Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) |
| Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) |
| Unemployment Insurance (UI) |
| Workers Benefits |
| Overtime Rights |
| Employment Discrimination |
| Retirees Returning To Work |
| Jobs |
Rick Santorum - R
Website
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No Running Mate Selected |
| These are available issue topics for which there were no responses. |
| Jobs, a General Statement |
| Working Class |
| Foreign Job Outsourcing |
| Affirmative Action |
| Workplace Violence Against Women |
| Independent Workers |
| Equal Pay Act |
| Paid Sick, Family and Maternity Leave |
| Family and Medical Leave Act |
| Unemployment Insurance |
| Workplace Protections |
| Mine Safety and Health |
| Job Growth |
| Government Subsidized Jobs |
| Reward companies that create domestic jobs |
| Child Labor |
| Quality of Jobs |
| Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) |
| Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) |
| Unemployment Insurance (UI) |
| Workers Benefits |
| Overtime Rights |
| Employment Discrimination |
| Retirees Returning To Work |