Monday, October 5, 2020 Dr. Jo Jorgensen Answers The Debate QuestionsLibertarian presidential candidate Dr. Jo Jorgensen (actually!) answers the questions posed at the first 2020 presidential debate.
Q: What are your views on Supreme Court appointments? A: I would only appoint people who will actually obey the Constitution, including especially the rigorous limitations placed on government power by the 9th and 10th Amendments. Q: What are your healthcare plans? A: I would work to restore free-market healthcare. We need price visibility and competition to lower costs. Q: What would you do about COVID-19, shutdowns, and masks? A: I would let businesses decide whether to be open and when, where, and how masks must be worn. Customers could then make their own choices about where to go or not go based on those individual policies. Q: What would you do about a vaccine? A: I won't pretend to be America's pharmacologist in chief. Vaccine providers must do their job, and then individual Americans should be free to decide whether or not to take the resulting vaccines. Q: What would you do about the economy? A: The private sector uses resources better than the government. So I would cut government spending dramatically and put those resources back into the productive economy. Q: What would you do about taxes? A: I will cut taxes as fast as I can. Individual Americans will make better use of the money. Q: What would you do about race relations in America? A: Great Society programs destroyed black families. Then the Nixon administration launched the drug war to further devastate the black community. Then Senator Biden passed a crime bill that placed huge numbers of black men behind bars. I would end the drug war and all the other laws that police use to harass black people. Q: How would you change policing in America? A: I would repeal all victimless crime laws, so police would have fewer reasons to hassle people. I would also outlaw qualified immunity so that police can be held responsible for the consequences of their actions. The result would be fewer dead citizens and fewer dead cops. Q: What would you do about the protests? A: The Democrats and Republicans both use laws to impose things on people against their will. This makes people angry. I would work to repeal all such laws, thereby reducing the anger. Q: Why should voters prefer you? A: I won't use the government to impose things on them against their will. I'll free them to make their own choices provided they respect the equal right of others to do the same. Q: What would you do about forest fires? A: I notice that most wildfires start on public lands. I would try to put more lands in private hands and instruct the Forest Service to emulate what the private sector does to prevent fires. Q: What would you do about global warming? A: Increased use of nuclear power would do more to reduce carbon emissions than any other policy. I would end subsidies that favor other forms of energy, and remove obstacles that block the wider adoption of nuclear power. Q: What do you think about election integrity? A: Election integrity starts by letting all the ballot-qualified candidates appear in the debates. Back To It Takes Brains |
