Gary Johnson
DENVER — Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson has a big idea: smaller government.
Johnson's campaign is founded on the principle that smaller government will mean greater freedom for citizens
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A look at some of his main proposals.
Johnson predicts that the United States could face hyperinflation if it doesn't balance its budget soon. He proposes to shrink the federal government by about 20 percent, which would be a historic reduction. But it's something Congress has not been able to pass under Democratic or Republican control.
He calls for reductions of up to 20 percent in military spending
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Johnson's experience as governor of New Mexico in the 1990s shows how hard it is to cut government. Despite a record 700-plus vetoes
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ALLOW MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION
Johnson first came to nationwide attention when, as governor
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Johnson says he wouldn't legalize other drugs like heroin or cocaine. He would give states more leeway to experiment on drug treatment programs.
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REDUCING MILITARY FOOTPRINT
Johnson describes himself as a skeptic of interventions overseas. He opposed the Iraq war and says the U.S. should have withdrawn from Afghanistan shortly after the fall of the Taliban in late 2001.
Today he says the United States should reconsider some of its overseas bases in areas where allies may not need military protection, such as Japan. Johnson says he would not seek to abrogate treaties like NATO
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GREATER LEGAL IMMIGRATION
In a year when Trump rode a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment to become the Republican nominee, Johnson has fiercely defended the value of immigration. He's mocked Trump's proposal for a border wall and selected as his running mate Bill Weld, a former Republican governor of Massachusetts who was once nominated to become U.S. ambassador to Mexico.
Johnson proposes making it easier to work in the United States legally
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A SINGLE TAX
Johnson advocates a single, simple consumption tax of the sort that most other industrialized nations use. This would replace the progressive federal income tax as well as the complex corporate tax code. Johnson has not released a detailed tax proposal and acknowledges a consumption tax is a distant goal given the complexity of the tax code and political obstacles to a tax overhaul. Consumption taxes tend to burden the poor more than the wealthy because lower income groups spend more of their money on basic goods and services. Johnson would seek to put safeguards in place to prevent any family from paying more in taxes on basic necessities.
He wants to close what he says are special interest loopholes and to simplify business taxes. Johnson was a strong advocate of lower taxes as governor, even vetoing efforts to increase government fees by a few dollars in various remote New Mexico municipalities.
Musician Bob Dylan attends the presentation ceremony of the Medal of Freedom at the White House in Washington D.C. on May 29
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STOCKHOLM, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) --- Bob Dylan, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, will not talk to the press, should he come to Stockholm to pick his award up in December, Swedish TT news agency reported on Tuesday.
Dylan has yet to confirm whether or not he will attend the Nobel awards ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on December 10, but his staff have told the Swedish Academy that, should he come to Sweden, he will not hold any press conference or offer any interview to journalists, news agency TT reported Tuesday.
According to TT, Dylan has vowed to hold some form of lecture within six months of the awards ceremony, which is followed by a lavish banquet at the Stockholm City Hall.
It was on October 13 that the Swedish Academy announced that the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature had been awarded to Bob Dylan "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
The Swedish Academy said on Oct. 28 that Bob Dylan called the Academy and said that he accepted the prize. "The news about the Nobel Prize left me speechless", Dylan added,"I appreciate the honor so much."
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