Ron Paul is terrible for america though. Here's why:
1.Ron Paul does not value equal rights for minorities. Ron Paul has sponsored legislation that would repeal affirmative action, kept the IRS from investigating private schools who may have used race as a factor in denying entrance, would limit the scope of Brown versus Board of Education, and would deny citizenship for those born in the US if their parents are not citizens. These bills: H.R.3863, H.R.5909, H.J.RES.46, and H.J.RES.42.
2.Ron Paul would deny women control of their bodies and reproductive rights. Ron Paul makes it very clear that one of his aims is to repeal Roe v. Wade. He has also co sponsored 4 separate bills to “To provide that human life shall be deemed to exist from conception.” Please see these bills: H.R.2597 and H.R.392
3.Ron Paul would be disastrous for the working class. He supports abolishing the Federal minimum wage, has twice introduced legislation to repeal OSHA, or the Occupational Safety and Health Act and would deal devastating blows to Social Security including repealing the act that makes it mandatory for employees of nonprofits, to make “coverage completely optional for both present and future workers”, and would “freeze benefit levels”. He has also twice sponsored legislation seeking to repeal the Davis-Bacon Act and the Copeland Act which among other things provide that contractors for the federal government must provide the prevailing wage and prohibits corporate “kick backs.” Here are the related bills: H.R.2030, H.R.4604, H.R.736, and H.R.2720
4.Ron Paul’s tax plan is unfair to lower earners and would greatly benefit those with the highest incomes. He has repeatedly submitted amendments to the tax code that would get rid of the estate and gift taxes, tax all earners at 10%, disallow income tax credits to individuals who are not corporations, repeal the elderly tax credit, child care credit, earned income credit, and other common credits for working class citizens. Bill: H.R.05484 (Summary)
5.Ron Paul’s policies would cause irreparable damage to our already strained environment. He supports off shore drilling, building more oil refineries, mining on federal lands, no taxes on the production of fuel, and would stop conservation efforts that could be a “Federal obstacle” to building and maintaining refineries. He has also sought to amend the Clean Air Act, repeal the Soil and Water Conservation Act of 1977, and to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to “restrict the jurisdiction of the United States over the discharge of dredged or fill material to discharges into waters”. Check these bills: H.R.2504, H.R.7079, H.R.7245, H.R.2415, H.R.393, H.R.4639, H.R.5293, and H.R.6936
6. A Ron Paul administration would continue to proliferate the negative image of the US among other nations. Ron Paul supported withdrawing the US from the UN, when that didn't happen he fought to have the US withdrawn from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organizations. He has introduced legislation to keep the US from giving any funds to the UN. He also submitted that the US funds should not be used in any UN peacekeeping mission or any UN program at all. He has sponsored a bill calling for us to “terminate all participation by the United States in the United Nations, and to remove all privileges, exemptions, and immunities of the United Nations.”Ron Paul twice supported stopping the destruction of intercontinental ballistic missile silos in the United States. He also would continue with Bush’s plan of ignoring international laws by maintaining an insistence that the International Criminal Court does not apply to the US, despite President Clinton’s signature on the original treaty. The International Criminal Court is used for, among other things, prosecution of war crimes. Please see the following bills: H.R.3891, H.AMDT.191, H.AMDT.190, H.R.3769, H.R.1665, H.CON.RES.23, and H.R.1154
7.Ron Paul discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation and would not provide equal rights and protections to glbt citizens. Paul was an original co sponsor of the Marriage Protection Act in the House in 2004. Among other things this discriminatory piece of legislation placed a prohibition on the recognition of a same sex marriage across state borders. He said in 2004 that if he was in the Texas legislature he would not allow judges to come up with “new definitions” of marriage. Paul is a very religious conservative and though he is careful with his words his record shows that he is not a supporter of same sex marriage. In 1980 he introduced a particularly bigoted bill entitled “A bill to strengthen the American family and promote the virtues of family life.” or H.R.7955 A direct quote from the legislation “Prohibits the expenditure of Federal funds to any organization which presents male or female homosexuality as an acceptable alternative life style or which suggest that it can be an acceptable life style.”
8. Ron Paul has an obsession with guns. One of Paul’s loudest gripes is that the second amendment of the constitution is being eroded. He advocates for there to be no restrictions on personal ownership of semi-automatic weaponry or large capacity ammunition feeding devices, would repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act (because we all know our schools need more guns), wants guns to be allowed in our National Parks, and repeal the Gun Control Act of 1968. In fact, the gun control act was put into place after the assassinations of JFK, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy, with huge bi-partisan support. The constitution does not say anyone can own any weapon they want without limit (he really DOES want to give x-codes a tank...). Please see the following bills: H.R.2424, H.R.1897, H.R.1096, H.R.407, H.R.1147, and H.R.3892. (he REALLY DOES want to give x-codes a tank...)
9.Ron Paul would butcher our already sad educational system. Ron Paul has introduced legislation that would keep the Federal Government “from planning, developing, implementing, or administering any national teacher test or method of certification and from withholding funds from States or local educational agencies that fail to adopt a specific method of teacher certification.” In a separate piece of legislation he sought to “prohibit the payment of Federal Education assistance in States which require the licensing or certification of private schools or private school teachers.” Remember his “bill to strengthen the American family and promote the virtues of family life.” or H.R.7955? It “Forbids any court of the United States from requiring the attendance at a particular school of any student because of race, color, creed, or sex.” So much for Brown Vs. Board of Education. If this bill were to pass, schools would no longer be required to comply and the schools would go back to segregation based on their locations. Thats the future for U.S. education, teachers with no certification, in schools that are allowed to discriminate on the basis of race and private schools will be no better.
10.Ron Paul is opposed to the separation of church and state. This reason is probably behind every other thing that I disagree with in regards to Paul’s positions. Ron Paul is among those who believes that there is a war on religion, he stated “Through perverse court decisions and years of cultural indoctrination, the elitist, secular Left has managed to convince many in our nation that religion must be driven from public view.” He would support “alternative views” of evolution taught in public schools (i.e. Intelligent Design). One of the things also outlined in his “bill to strengthen the American family and promote the virtues of family life.” or H.R.7955 Besides hating the gays, he takes a very religious stance on many other things.
Don't let Ron Paul fool you he talks a good game, but there's alot of bad mixed in with very little good.
