So Who Do I Support???

Well, I'm still deciding. Very early on, I was all for Rudy. Next I moved on to Huckabee. Now, although I haven't abandoned the Huckster...I think I am liking what Mitt Romney has to offer. Up until within the past few days, I knew relatively little about Romney. I'm not going to go through his whole belief system so if you want all the details then please click here and go to the "ISSUES" tab.

Anyways, I think Romney could bring some good change to Washington. Mitt and I, we share some common feelings on certain issues. Overall, Mitt is a smart and proven business man and I think that is what we need right now. He has his MBA from Harvard Business school, served as the CEO of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, and was a VP of one of the nations leading management consulting firms, and founded one of the nations most successful venture capital and investment firm.

Energy: He supports drilling in ANWR and increasing our offshore drilling to become self supportive. Currently, we use 25% of the worlds oil supply but we only posses about 1.7% of the crude oil supply. This doesn't make any sense...we are using more than we have available. This is simple....business fail if they do this...as will we if the US doesn't correct this problem. He also supports investing in the future methods of energy consumption. We agree here.

Homeland Security: He wants to increase the size of the military by 100,000 and change our military perspective from responsive to preventative. We agree here too...kick theirs before they kick ours.

Combating Jihad Terrorism: He actually has a plan and recognizes this is a threat. Done deal. He wants a special Army task force to be created to help governments combat Jihad terrorists. He also recognizes that there is a nuclear threat now. Good, some other people won't do that until one is used on somebody...then it's too late.

Economy: Here is where I think he could do a lot of good. Although he is not a "Fair Tax" supporter, I like his ideas which sadly may be more practical for right now. He wants to reduce the tax rates across ALL tax brackets. He also wants to completely eliminate taxes on interest, dividends, and capital gains for anybody with an adjusted gross income of less than $200,000. This would mean no more "double-taxation" for those affected. Corporations are taxed on income and then again when they distribute income to their owners. This would be a great step towards giving us more savings freedom. He will make the Bush tax cuts permanent....these were good tax cuts. He wants to eliminate the "death" tax so families can pass their assets along to younger generations without the government sticking their dirty hands in the pass-along. There is NO reason for that. One of the really big things is he wants to lower the corporate income tax. Overall, he wants taxes to be more simple, flat, and lower. He also wants to implement a national tort reform to get rid of frivolous lawsuits against businesses. Case in point, stupid people who don't realize their coffee is HOT won't be able to sue McDonalds anymore.

Government Spending: Romney wants to tear Washington apart on their ridiculous spending. He says that if a CEO or CFO spent money like Washington does...they would be fired, so why is Washington still getting away with it. He will institute the line-item veto. No longer will politicians be able to attach their ridiculous spending habits to larger important spending bills like when the Democrats pulled the dirty trick earlier this year of attaching an important spending need to a troop withdrawl from Iraq. Hands are tied when they do this. He also wants to enact spending limits...wait...oh yeah...this is called a BUDGET! Wow...what a concept. I really think this would be one of his strongest points that is desperately needed right now in order for other areas of concern to be improved as well.

Illegal Immigration: He made a good point. Eliminate the magnets and the attraction goes away. Start penalizing employers for hiring illegals. Create a national non-citizen database to track the illegals. He does NOT favor amnesty and he is in favor of a border fence. I agree with his anti-amnesty idea but I'm not sure if it's feasible. I wish it was, but I don't know about that.

Health care: He is in favor of expanding and deregulating the private health care industry. This means increased competition...increased competition equals lower prices and more accessibility. This is opposed to the Democrats' plan of a federal health care system. He would also like to make all health care expenses tax deductible. Currently, I believe they are NOT deductible until your expenses hit over 7% of your AGI.

Society: He is really big on protecting this nations' children. No more second chances for sex offenders when children are involved. He wants to crack down on Internet schenanigans. He believes in old-fashioned American values that the USA was founded upon.

Education: I am a big supporter of his policies here. He wants the federal government to loose control over how states, parents, and teachers run the schools. He wants school choice programs to be enacted. This is yet another example of his strong backing of competition and the good that is brings. He wants to promote math and sciences to ensure that US students are able to compete in the job market. Romney supports performance-based pay for teachers. This is how everybody else is payed outside the government and it works. My wife is a teacher, during her orientation she was handed a pay schedule outlining what she will make and when. Wow, not much of an incentive to improve is it? He also believes in home school tax credits for families who home school their children. Makes sense to me.

So, hopefully this shed some light on Mitt Romney for you. Now, whether or not he can become the Republican nominee is a different story. I think he will run into problems because he isn't as well known as McCain. It's a shame too.