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 * 1) reducing the corporate income tax to 12.5%
 * 2) Move toward an optional flat tax of 15%
 * 3) allow Americans the freedom to choose to file their taxes on a postcard, saving hundreds of billions in unnecessary costs each year
 * 4) 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
 * 5) Strengthen the dollar by returning to the Reagan-era monetary policies that stopped runaway inflation
 * 6) reforming the Federal Reserve to promote transparency
 * 7) Remove obstacles to job creation imposed by destructive and ineffective regulations, programs and bureaucracies
 * 8) Repealing the Community Reinvestment Act, the abuse of which helped cause the financial crisis
 * 9) Repealing the Dodd-Frank Law which is killing small independent banks
 * 10) Replacing the Environmental Protection Agency with an Environmental Solutions Agency that works collaboratively with local government and industry to achieve better results
 * 11) Modernizing the Food and Drug Administration to get lifesaving medicines and technologies to patients faster
 * 12) Implement an American energy policy that removes obstacles to responsible energy development and creates jobs in the United States
 * 13) Balance the budget by growing the economy, controlling spending, implementing money saving reforms, and replacing destructive policies and regulatory agencies with new approaches
 * 14) Fundamental reform of entitlement programs with the advice and help of the American people
 * 15) Military force must be used judiciously and with clear, obtainable objectives understood by Congress
 * 16) Implement an American Energy Plan to reduce the world’s dependence on oil from dangerous and unstable countries, especially in the Middle East
 * 17) Secure the border to prevent terrorist organizations from sneaking agents and weapons into the United States
 * 18) Incentivize math and science education in America to ensure the men and women of our Armed Forces always have the most advanced and powerful weapons in the world
 * 19) grand strategy for marginalizing, isolating, and defeating radical Islamists across the world
 * 20) America’s foreign policy must be to ensure our own survival and protect those who share our values
 * 1) former House speaker from Georgia
 * 2) led the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994
 * 3) Remained relevant by writing books, speeches and policies
 * 4) confrontation with President Bill Clinton over the budget led to a government shutdown in 1995
 * 1) United States must quit spending beyond its means
 * 2) Congress must stop spending on discretionary items such as entitlement programs
 * 3) country could cut costs in half and reduce the deficit by drastically downsizing the government
 * 4) workers have basic human rights but unions have outlived their purpose
 * 5) Unions discourage competition and are overly concerned with politics, spending millions of dollars on influencing government policies while their pension funds are in the red
 * 6) Unions have made the cost of producing goods in the U.S. prohibitive
 * 7) supports capital punishment
 * 8) inclusion of drug smuggling under capital crime offences
 * 9) bill that recommends the death penalty to anyone smuggling over one hundred doses of any form of illicit substance across American borders
 * 10) China suppresses dissents and abuses human rights
 * 11) take steps with the people and not the government, to trade, have student exchanges and tourism
 * 12) should be respectful of the government of China but encourage the people to demand their rights
 * 13) Supreme Court has become a constitutional convention and that they should leave the Constitution alone
 * 14) government should look at how the private sector manages its finances and imitate it
 * 15) our government is too big, spends too much and is too intrusive
 * 16) one-year tax moratorium, coupled with the elimination of capital gains tax and bringing down the corporate tax rate to 12.5%
 * 17) give incentives for renewable resources and conservation
 * 18) end the 'scare tactics' and drill in Alaska
 * 19) eliminating the gas tax
 * 20) advocate of a citizen's right to bear arms
 * 1) Voted NO on replacing death penalty with life imprisonment
 * 2) Limit punitive damages; term limits on Congress
 * 3) No US troops under UN command; more defense spending
 * 4) Contract with America: 10 bills in 1st 100 days of Congress
 * 5) Reduce taxes on Social Security earnings
 * 6) Eight steps to improve opportunity for poor
 * 7) Limit welfare to 2 years & cut welfare spending
 * 8) Incentives to businesses create jobs & raise wages
 * 9) More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty
 * 10) Government is too big, too intrusive, too easy with money
 * 11) Repeal marriage tax; cut middle class taxes
 * 12) Move the US Embassy to Jerusalem
 * 13) Impeach judges who don’t abide by Constitution as written
 * 14) 3-strike laws are constitutional; enforce courts compliance
 * 15) Increase penalties for illegal drugs
 * 16) Drug-free society focuses on both drug supply & demand
 * 17) Don’t redefine Constitution with no individual right to arms
 * 18) Medicare opt-in to private health savings accounts
 * 19) Biological threat bigger than nuclear threat
 * 20) Immigrants must learn key values of American history
 * 1) Stop forcing pro-choice morality on religious organizations
 * 2) only leadership can balance the budget
 * 3) modernizing the government can save $500B per year in waste
 * 4) No sequel to failed stimulus & job-killing policies
 * 5) Put people back to work to raise revenues without taxes
 * 6) Insure banks rather than pass out checks
 * 7) loyalty test for everyone, not just Muslims
 * 8) stop forcing same-sex marriage on religious groups
 * 9) International drug traders use network for terrorist traffic
 * 10) Increase penalties for illegal drugs
 * 11) Don’t redefine Constitution with no individual right to arms
 * 12) Medicaid/Medicare fraud: stop paying the crooks
 * 13) danger of Iran getting nukes from Pakistan
 * 14) Be prepared in a very militant and aggressive way
 * 15) Fundamentally wrong to give unemployment pay for 99 weeks
 * 16) Reduce taxes on Social Security earnings