In a Nutshell: Why You Should Consider Voting for Allen Buckley 1. In 2007, the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) said: “GAO’s current long-term simulations continue to show ever-larger deficits resulting in a federal debt burden that ultimately spirals out of control.” This year, GAO said that in about two decades, if revenues stay at about 18.3 percent of GDP -- the level we are used to experiencing -- they will not even cover net interest expense, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Tax Cuts Made Permanent Without Spending Cuts. Imagine how your savings (401(k), etc.) would be detrimentally impacted if the deficits spiral out of control. A "brief analysis" of the Social Security and Medicare problems can be found here (PDF). Allen Buckley would take immediate action to prevent such a financial meltdown from taking place, by advocating entitlements reform, a greatly simplified tax system and balanced budget every year the U.S. is not in a depression or significant recession. See: Recommended Solutions to Financial Problems. 2. The U.S. has approximately 700 military bases in approximately 130 countries. On February 29, 2008, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz estimated that the Iraq war will cost American taxpayers between $3 trillion and $5 trillion -- that's approximately $25,000 to $41,000 per full-time worker. Allen Buckley would fight to eliminate a majority of the foreign bases and bring the troops of those bases back to the U.S. He also proposes a solution to the Iraq occupation. See: National Security Solutions. 3. The U.S. has a tremendous illegal immigration problem, and the projected population growth (largely Hispanic) is huge.
Allen Buckley would fight to solve the current illegal immigration problem, to limit future immigration and to allow for future immigration in a manner that admits people of all races on a more proportionate basis. See: A Reasonable Immigration Policy and Solving the Illegal Immigration Problems. 4. As they have for years, health care costs are growing at a much greater rate than the economy or any wage index. On July 9, 2007, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported that if health care costs continue to grow at the rate that they have over the past four decades (i.e. at a rate of 2.5 percentage points greater than the per capita GDP growth), and raising tax rates will be the only solution to the problem, then by 2050 the income tax rates will need to increase from 10 percent for the lowest bracket, 25 percent for the middle income bracket and 35 percent for the high income bracket, to 26 percent, 66 percent and 92 percent, respectively. Action must be taken to address the problems. Allen Buckley would take action necessary to make health care more like buying a product that does not involve a third party (i.e. an insurance company, employer or the government) in the purchasing equation. See: Solutions to Health Care Problems. Health Care's Needed Changes from Allen Buckley on Vimeo. 5. Global warming is occurring and the price of gasoline will continue to rise. Reasonable action can be taken to accelerate a conversion to hydrogen or similar clean-burning fueling. Allen Buckley would propose legislation to make hydrogen or similar clean-burning fueling tax-free and create incentive for a conversion thereto, and to place the tax burden of federal roads and bridges on less clean fuels, such as gasoline (i.e. the cleaner a fuel, the less tax burden it would bear). See: Environment and Energy section. 6. The Protect America Act of 2007—that recently expired, as interpreted by the Bush Administration, permitted spying on U.S. citizens without a warrant. (Phone calls with respect to which at least one caller was in a foreign country were potentially subject to eavesdropping.) The Bush Administration is now trying to renew the law. Allen Buckley would propose legislation that balanced the need for quick action with respect to warrants in necessary cases and the need to protect civil liberties. A warrant should always be required to spy on a U.S. citizen in any manner.
7. Supplying farm subsidies (the signature issue of Saxby Chambliss), is,
absolutely, wrong. Record farm income was reported in 2007. Most of the
subsidies are paid to wealthy individuals and companies. Accordingly to
the Heritage Foundation: “commercial farmers--who report an average
annual income of $200,000 and a net worth of more than $2 million
dollars--collect a majority of farm subsidies.” Additionally, Allen Buckley would stand for and fight for:
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