Who is Newt Gingrich?
Campaign Platform and Promises-
Immigration - "10 Steps to a Legal Nation" 1. Control the border. 2. Create an improved visa program. 3. "In-source" the best brains of the world. 4. Allow foreigners who want to spend money, invest and create jobs in America to do so. 5. There has to be a legal guest worker program, but its
management must be outsourced to a sophisticated manager of anti-fraud
systems, such as American Express, Visa, or Mastercard. (read the rest on his website)
Jobs and the Economy
- Stop the 2013 tax increases to promote stability in the economy.
- Make the United States the most desirable location for new business investment through a bold series of tax cuts, including: Eliminating the capital gains tax to make American entrepreneurs more competitive against those in other countries; Dramatically reducing the corporate income tax (among highest in the world) to 12.5%; Allowing for 100% expensing of new equipment to spur innovation and American manufacturing; Ending the death tax permanently.
- Move toward an optional flat tax of 15% that would allow Americans the freedom to choose to file their taxes on a postcard, saving hundreds of billions in unnecessary costs each year.
- Strengthen the dollar by returning to the Reagan-era monetary policies that stopped runaway inflation and reforming the Federal Reserve to promote transparency.
- Remove obstacles to job creation imposed by destructive and ineffective regulations, programs and bureaucracies. Steps include: Repealing the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which did nothing to prevent the financial crisis and is holding companies back from making new investments in the U.S; Repealing the Community Reinvestment Act, the abuse of which helped cause the financial crisis; Repealing the Dodd-Frank Law which is killing small independent banks, crippling loans to small businesses and crippling home sales; Breaking up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, moving their smaller successors off government guarantees and into the free market; Replacing the Environmental Protection Agency with an Environmental Solutions Agency that works collaboratively with local government and industry to achieve better results; and Modernizing the Food and Drug Administration to get lifesaving medicines and technologies to patients faster.
- Implement an American energy policy that removes obstacles to responsible energy development and creates jobs in the United States.
- Balance the budget by growing the economy, controlling spending, implementing money saving reforms, and replacing destructive policies and regulatory agencies with new approaches.
- Repeal and replace Obamacare with a pro-jobs,
pro-responsibility health plan that puts doctors and patients in charge
of health decisions instead of bureaucrats.
- Fundamental reform of entitlement programs with the advice and help of the American people.
- Remove bureaucratic and legal obstacles to responsible oil and natural gas development in the United States, offshore and on land.
- End the ban on oil shale development in the American West, where we have three times the amount of oil as Saudi Arabia.
- Give coastal states federal royalty revenue sharing to give them an incentive to allow offshore development.
- Reduce frivolous lawsuits that hold up energy production by enacting loser pays laws to force the losers in an environmental lawsuit to pay all legal costs for the other side.
- Finance cleaner energy research and projects with new oil and gas royalties.
- Replace the Environmental Protection Agency, which has become a job-killing regulatory engine of higher energy prices, with an Environmental Solutions Agency that would use incentives and work cooperatively with local government and industry to achieve better environmental outcomes while considering the impact of federal environmental policies on job creation and the cost of energy.
Improve education to better focus on math and science.
Founded the Center for Health Transformation (2003) to develop free market healthcare reforms to foster a 21st Century System of health and healthcare that is centered on the individual, prevention focused, knowledge intense and innovation rich.
Political Accomplishments-
Architect of "Contract with America" in 1994, that lead to a GOP majority in the US House for first time in 40 years.
Under his leadership, Congress passed first balanced budget in a generation.
Cut taxes for the first time in sixteen years and reformed welfare, leading to over sixty percent of welfare recipients either getting a job or going to school.
Restored funding to strengthen defense and intelligence capabilities, an action later lauded by the bipartisan 9/11 Commission.
Time Magazine's 1995 Man of the Year
Elected to Congress in 1978
Congressman for 20 years, including 4 years as Speaker of the House.
Served on Defense Policy Board under President George W. Bush, advising the Pentagon.
Professional Background-
Professor of History and Environmental Studies at West Virginia College for 8 years.
Teacher at the Joint War Fighting Course for Major Generals at Air University
Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Professor at National Defense University
Author of 23 books
Personal Background-
Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Bachelor’s degree from Emory University and Master’s and Doctorate in Modern European History from Tulane University.
Wife Callista, 2 daughters, 2 grandchildren
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