Want to know what you’d get with me in the White House (I mean, besides “God of Thunder” by Kiss replacing “Hail to the Chief”)?  Don’t laugh.  I’m polling pretty strongly in my study.

Here you go.  I claim neither completeness nor mass appeal.  During the week or so I intermittently worked on this, if I had a thought, I wrote it down.  Consequently there’s some bee or another for the bonnet of just about everyone.  Heh.

Budget, taxes, and deficits

• Supports balanced budget amendment.
• Supports elimination of earmarks.
• Supports immediate adoption of low flat federal income tax with elimination of all deductions except charitable contributions.  Existing system would be left in place for a short time; taxpayer’s choice which to use during transition period.
• Supports elimination of penalties for taxpayers choosing not to have taxes withheld from each paycheck.
• Supports the repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment and gradual elimination of all federal income taxes.

Social Security

• Supports opt-out option for all participants.  To-date contributions are forfeited.  Upon opt-out with forfeiture, inability of federal government to collect any more retirement fund money from participant is guaranteed and irrevocable.
• Supports opt-out option with parachute (lump sum or finite payments) for participants 20 years or less from retirement age.
• Supports establishment of private accounts for those wishing to remain in the Social Security system.
• Supports moving retirement age to 72 for those wishing to remain in the Social Security system.

Elections

• Supports retention of the electoral college.
• Opposes term limits.  Supports repeal of existing term limits.
• Supports the repeal of the Seventeenth Amendment, returning the election/appointment of U.S. senators to the respective state legislatures.

Trade

• Opposes NAFTA.
• Opposes all federal subsidies for domestic products of any kind.
• Opposes federal monopoly on daily mail delivery.

Health care

• Opposes universal government-provided health care.
• Proposes availability of substantial patient liability waivers to increase efficiency, decrease cost, and foster innovation.

Minimum wage

Opposes federal minimum wage law.

Affirmative action

Opposes all law restricting the hiring or acceptance of any person because of the age, race, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, or disability of that person, except in direct and objective negative relation to the occupation or other position under consideration.

Gay marriage

Opposes any federal role in marriage.  However, as long as there is any legal advantage to being married, supports extension of said advantage to same-sex couples.

Tort reform

Supports “loser pays” for all civil litigation.

Foreign policy and defense

• Supports withdrawal of the United States from the United Nations.
• Opposes conscription.
• Supports continued development and deployment of worldwide missile defense system.
• Supports ongoing operation in Afghanistan.
• Supported 2003 invasion of Iraq.  Supports “withdraw and strike” strategy, in which all coalition ground troops would leave Iraq within two years.
• Opposes air strikes to eliminate Iranian nuclear threat.  Opposes nuclear-armed Iran considerably more deeply.
• Supports removal of all American diplomatic restraints on Israel.

Capital punishment

• Supports the death penalty for murder.
• Supports the swift execution of mentally sound convicts desiring such.

Energy and environment

• Supports removing most restrictions on domestic drilling, including those on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
• Supports ten-year moratorium on all federal taxes for development of clean and renewable energy sources.

Abortion

• Supports the right of an adult woman to abort a pregnancy in the first or second trimester for any reason.
• Opposes requiring father’s consent.
• Supports over-the-counter availability of the “morning after” pill to adults.
• Supports requiring parental notification for any girl under the age of 18 before she aborts a pregnancy.
• Opposes third-trimester abortion except to save the mother’s life.

Sex education

• Supports promoting abstinence as the only 100% reliable method of avoiding pregnancy and sexually-transmitted diseases.
• Supports complementary education on contraception and disease prevention.

Education

Supports elimination of federal Department of Education.

Gun control

• Supports the individual right of any non-felon adult to own any ballistic weapon.
• Opposes federal registry of gun owners.

Illegal drugs

• Supports immediate release of all incarcerated non-violent drug offenders.
• Supports legalization of marijuana.
• Supports some limited decriminalization of other illegal drugs.

Immigration

• Supports a secure, continuous wall along the southern border of the United States.
• Supports English as the official language of the United States.
• Opposes blanket amnesty.