Declared 2012
Libertarian Presidential Candidate
Former Chair of the Libertarian Party of Texas
Roger Gary
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Gary Position on Business and Labor
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Candidate Gary believes the government should avoid what he calls “smotherment,” which he describes as the application of red tape against small businesses by reducing competition and wages.
He opposes corporate welfare, such as the bailouts that benefited large businesses “at the expense of smaller companies, Labor, consumers, and the taxpayer.” Campaign Website
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Gingrich Position on Business and Labor
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• Gingrich believes that workers have basic human rights but unions have outlived their purpose.
• 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.
• Unions have made the cost of producing goods in the U.S. prohibitive.
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Declared 2012
Libertarian Presidential Candidate
3-Tour Combat Vet, Philosopher and Law Student
RJ Harris
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Harris Position on Business and Labor
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Restore capitalism and free markets, including a free labor market
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Declared 2012
Libertarian Presidential Candidate
Former Governor of New Mexico
Gary Johnson
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Johnson Position on Business and Labor
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Johnson’s personal business success, coupled with his libertarian outlook, has given him a definite interpretation on the relationship between businesses and governments. Aside from the often quoted libertarian mantra of entrepreneurship and small government, Johnson also opines that governments should be run as a business, with clear evaluation of the cost and benefits of every decision, instead of the grand voters and special interests inducing gestures that the country has grown accustomed to.
He is also a believer in the economic benefits of immigrant workforce, dismissing the notion that it would take away jobs from the average Americans.
In a recent interview, Johnson has stated his desire to start loosening the country’s child labor laws, which, while continuing to protect minors, will also prevent the curtailing of the spirit of entrepreneurship among our youths.
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Miller Position on Business and Labor
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• Miller will terminate the Federal minimum wage and let the free market establish pay rates.
• He respects that the role of the Federal government is limited to providing the regulations and oversight for the protection of workers/businesses from criminal wrong doing, while supporting our free market system. The Federal government will no longer be a third party participant or competitor of our free market.
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Declared 2012
Democratic Presidential Candidate
Current President of the United States
Barack Obama
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Obama Position on Business and Labor
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• President Obama is a strong supporter of worker's rights. He believes they should be given the right to bargain collectively and strike if the need arises. He would see to it that striking workers are not completely expelled from work.
• Obama believes in the Employees Free Choice Act which is a bipartisan effort to enable workers to organize. The essence of the Act is to give the employees a choice whether to join a union or not and not simply be pressured into joining.
• He opposed Bush's National labor Relations Board's 'Kentucky River' decisions to classify workers such as nurses, construction workers as supervisors. They were not to receive protection under Federal labor laws under this decision therefore Obama cosponsored legislation against this.
• Obama intended to raise the minimum wages index it to inflationary levels and thereby raise the Earned Income Tax Credit.
• Obama supports the United Auto Workers and AFL-CIO and the right of workers to bargain collectively and strike if necessary. While running for election he said that he would work to ban the permanent replacement of striking workers.
• Obama believes that America's future lies in developing new clean energy jobs which can be achieved by mandatory limits on carbon pollution which will create a stable business environment welcoming investments from entrepreneurs in a new energy economy.
• Obama plans to invest in innovation and development by giving increased access to capital and by cutting health care costs and also by introducing a new Small Business Health Tax Credit.
• He supports the setting up of a national infrastructure bank to use public and private capital to fund projects. He builds in creating jobs by rebuilding business infrastructure.
• Obama believes that workers should have the freedom to choose whether to join a union without harassment or intimidation from their employers. Obama cosponsored and is strong advocate for the Employee Free Choice Act, a bipartisan effort to assure that workers can exercise their right to organize. He will continue to fight for EFCA's passage and sign it into law.
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Paul Position on Business and Labor
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• Ron Paul believes that inflation is caused by big business’ demand for easy money.
• We would not let shareholders vote on executive compensation.
• We should replace illegal export tax breaks with $140B in new breaks.
He would overhaul bankruptcy laws to require at least partial debt payment.
• He thinks labor should have the right to organize but there should be no specific benefits for unions.
• He thinks that the minimum wage limits opportunities.
• He believes that unemployment benefits should stay at 39 weeks and that extending them encourages people to remain jobless.
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Declared 2012
Libertarian Presidential Candidate
New York attorney and founder of the Paralegal Institute
Carl Person
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Person Position on Business and Labor
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Carl Person blames the federal government for failing to enforce fraud laws against banks as the reason for a failing economy. He wants to legalize gambling and lawyer advertising, as well as legalizing paid signatures for petitions (June 5, 2011 Liberty Lion).
Person has sued several large companies over the years from Parker Brothers/Hasbro to the automobile industry. He also has commissioned the following political cartoon:
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Romney Position on Business and Labor
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• Mitt Romney voiced his protest against a labor bill known as The Employee Free Choice Act that would make it easier for unions to organize describing it as a dangerous legislation saying that it would have a negative impact on the nation's ability to compete globally and would also dampen the scope of new businesses.
• Mitt Romney suggested that welfare recipients should go to work immediately. He suggested doing away with capital gains taxes for those firms that invest in inner city enterprise zones also advocated tax credits for hiring poor residents of those areas.
• He stands for writing off a lot of capital expenditures of business firms to induce them to buy more so that it will have the effect of other companies hiring more people thus generating more jobs.
• He believes a cut in Corporate Taxes will have a significant impact over time. It can stimulate the economy, create jobs and encourage foreign investment.
• He said that the American worker could be richer by $9000 a year by opening up the market to American goods and services. The workers can sell the products they manufacture around the world thus raking in more income.
• He is of the opinion that it is the businessmen and not politicians who should negotiate trade with foreigners so that patents, designs and technology etc are adequately protected.
• He encouraged Trade and commerce with Asian countries saying that it will only strengthen the Us economy and lead to further growth.
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Snyder Position on Business and Labor
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"Fair Tax would be best. A 50% reduction in the corporate tax rate is the minimum act we can initiate to help those who create jobs in America. "
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Woodring Position on Business and Labor
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•Full employment: Getting the country back to work and brings jobs back to America from overseas
•Reinvestment in our country's infrastructure. Our roads, bridges, airports and rail systems are outdated and in major disrepair—this needs fixing!
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Wuensche Position on Business and Labor
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• Vern Wuensche believes that we should increase jobs by reducing taxes in all forms and reduce regulation to support small business.
• Wuensche believes that we should eliminate lobbying by all government officials.
• He believes that citizen and government workers should be under the same laws.
• He believes that our prisons should require prisoners to work to acquire new job skills in producing products to reduce their cost to the state.
• He believes that collective bargaining by government employees should be abolished.
• He believes that all employees should be allowed the right to work without being a union member.
• He opposes card check legislation favoring unions.
• He believes that union members should be allowed to give or withhold consent for the expenditure of their dues to any party.
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