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Issues
Securing Our Borders
While we recognize and appreciate the contributions made by our forbears who came to America from foreign lands, we also must recognize that in the 21st century, immigration control policy is inextricably intertwined with homeland security policy -- they are two sides of the same coin.Read more...
Slashing Wasteful Spending
The Federal Government is too big and spends too much money. Five short years ago, the Federal Government spent $1.863 trillion; last year, the Federal Government spent $2.655 trillion. That $792 billion increase represents a 43 percent increase in just five years.Read more...
Securing Our Economic Future
Taxes are too high. And the tax code itself is a behemoth -- almost 8,000 pages of rules and regulations that require American taxpayers to pay lawyers and accountants more than $250 billion every year just to comply. We need to cut taxes, and we need to reform the system. It's as simple as that.Read more...
A 21st Century Energy Policy
For too long, our dependence on oil -- particularly foreign oil -- has shaped our foreign and national security policy. For too long, we have allowed ourselves to be dependent on the whims of foreign dictators whose nations control vital supplies of a resource we need, often times in parts of the world where instability leads to the supply disruptions that can wreak havoc on energy costs.Read more...
Making Health Care More Affordable and Accessible
America has the best health care in the world; why else would the world's most powerful people regularly come here for life-saving, cutting-edge treatment? The problem is, the health care delivery system we've created for ourselves -- a "third party payer" system, in which most Americans get their health insurance through their employer -- creates perverse incentives, and, because the consumer of the health services is divorced from paying for those services, offers no incentives to manage health care costs better.Read more...
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