A few notes on Gary Johnson:
- once called the most fiscally conservative governor in the country ("Governor Veto"), record backs it, good and/or bad
- separation of religion and state (Lutheran, doesn't go to church, would not advocate school prayer)
- pot legal
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prostitution legal (only in Nevada? Not sure)
- gay marriage legal
- abolish corporate taxes and IRS, replace with 25 percent consumption tax
- abolish income, capital gains and payroll taxes; replace with fair tax.....
- In a February 2012 op-ed for The Washington Times, Gary Johnson advocated for the elimination of income, capital gains and payroll taxes. In their place, Johnson said he would implement a "kind of a national sales tax called the Fair-tax." He wrote, "Some think the Fair-tax is regressive, but in fact it’s progressive - taxing the wealthy more than the poor. Fair-tax issues a 'prebate' for families to spend on food, clothing, transportation, medical care or whatever they want to spend it on - it’s their money. Undocumented immigrants will pay their taxes if they want to buy anything. They need a Social Security card to receive a prebate, so the incentive is for immigrants to get themselves on the books as fast as possible."[39]
- According to the free enterprise advocacy group Club for Growth, Johnson called for reducing the top rate for New Mexico's income tax from 8.5 percent to 8 percent in the 1990s. In 2001, however, he vetoed a bill to reduce this rate from 8.2 percent to 7.7 percent "because it also lowered the dollar amount that the top rate kicked in."[40]
