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I think it's time for a thread. I've been supporting him since he announced that he was running. He has the best shot of matching up against Hillary and brings in some of the young and Latino votes. He's performed well in the debates, stays away from mud slinging and sticks to the issues with well thought out answers. I think he's finally learning how to loosen up a little. Hopefully he continues to limit the canned responses and speaks more from the heart. Miami Dolphin fan with a former Dolphin cheerleader for a wife, so that's a huge plus for me.
As President, Marco will:
Reform the Tax Code to Treat Parents Fairly by:
Marco will undo the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water Rule, that will dramatically expand federal control over ponds, ditches and streams. Further, he will fight EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and excessive application of the Endangered Species Act, which can, when misused, deem huge swathes of productive land off-limits for agriculture or other beneficial development. In the U.S. Senate, Marco fought the EPA’s attempt to regulate numeric nutrients in Florida waters — and won.
Permanently End the Punitive Death Tax
Marco’s comprehensive pro-growth, pro-family tax reform will permanently end the death tax and allow for immediate expensing of new machinery and equipment. According to the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, the plan would raise wages and boost investment dramatically. Read more about his tax plan here.
Oppose New Taxes on Energy
As President, Marco would fight the establishment of a cap-and-trade program or carbon tax, which would act as a new national energy tax on agriculture producers. In addition, Marco will push for other reforms to unleash American energy production and bring down energy costs for farmers.
Open New Markets for Farmers and Ranchers
Marco supports Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), which asserts Congress’s role in critical trade negotiations and paves the way for the creation of agricultural jobs. Marco would also push for timely completion of trade agreements to boost exports for American farmers and ranchers.
Curb Overregulation
Farmers and ranchers deal with huge costs imposed by the federal regulations, which interfere in labeling procedures, impose new permitting requirements, land use, and more. Marco has proposed a National Regulatory Budget that would cap the costs federal regulations can impose on the economy, including a limit for each individual agency. This would prevent regulators from imposing costly new rules at whim, and give Congress the ability to rein in regulators.
Marco has fought to protect the Second Amendment by:
Enact Comprehensive Tax Reform that Protects Small Businesses
Marco supports comprehensive tax reform that will:
Fight for Accountable Regulatory Policies
VA Reform
Marco has introduced legislation allowing secretaries of the VA to remove any VA employee based on performance or misconduct. Without the basic accountability this measure offers, we’ll never have a VA that works for veterans rather than bureaucrats.
Similarly, competition will push the VA to provide top quality care. If veterans don’t feel like the Veterans Health Administration suits their needs, Marco supports giving them the option to use the exact same funds to see an approved private sector provider of their choice.
Marco will also fight to streamline and reform the VA bureaucracy and protect whistleblowers from retaliation.
Education That Works for Vets
Marco’s plans for higher-ed reform will offer veterans more flexible, up-to-date options for higher education, including an emphasis on vocational training.
New approaches to higher education possible thanks to accreditation reform, for instance, can give veterans better opportunities after leaving the service. What a soldier has done in the military — say, driving a truck or running a logistics operation — should help count toward education and professional certifications here at home.
Restoring Military Strength
Marco’s plans to strengthen the military will ensure that our servicemembers will go into battle with the best training and equipment we can offer. Reversing sequestration, and keeping our forces at the levels we need, will mean that veterans aren’t coming home to pink slips. Military benefits systems also need to be examined and updated to make sense in the 21st century economy, to ensure that pensions and other compensation are attracting the very best to the military.
Marco has a comprehensive tax reform plan that will cut taxes for working Americans, jumpstart investment, and slash corporate taxes to boost wages.
The nonpartisan Tax Foundation estimates that it will raise wages for all taxpayers and create millions of jobs. Read more about the plan here.
Protect the Sharing Economy
Marco will oppose harmful new mandates, regulations, and taxes that can get in the way of innovative work opportunities provided by the sharing economy. Read more about that here.
Overhaul Higher Education
Marco proposes modernizing our outdated higher education system so that American workers can get the skills they need at an affordable price and in ways compatible with other priorities. Read more about the proposals here.
Unleash American Energy Potential
Making the best use of America’s energy resources provides abundant opportunities for high-paying jobs, many of which don’t even require a college degree. Marco will lift the ban on crude oil exports, allow states to oversee energy production on federal lands, and more. Read about his energy plans here.
Limit Regulatory Overreach
Marco has proposed a national regulatory budget, which will set a limit on the costs that can be imposed by federal regulations overall and by rules from each federal agency. This will roll back regulators’ ability to strangle job creation and restore Congress’s ability to oversee regulation. Read more about the idea here.
RUBIO 2016!
As President, Marco will:
Reform the Tax Code to Treat Parents Fairly by:
- Creating a new $2,500 per child partially refundable tax credit, to allow working parents to keep more of their money and fix the parent tax penalty
- Ending the marriage tax penalty without penalizing homemakers (Read more about Marco’s tax plan here.)
- Encouraging more paid leave for new parents, caretakers of ailing loved ones, seriously ill employees, and military families, without harmful mandates or costly new entitlements (Read more about Marco’s paid leave plan here.)
- Speaking out for traditional American values and against the decline of marriage
- Allowing states to use anti-poverty dollars on programs that recognize marriage’s crucial role in lifting families out of poverty
Marco will undo the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water Rule, that will dramatically expand federal control over ponds, ditches and streams. Further, he will fight EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and excessive application of the Endangered Species Act, which can, when misused, deem huge swathes of productive land off-limits for agriculture or other beneficial development. In the U.S. Senate, Marco fought the EPA’s attempt to regulate numeric nutrients in Florida waters — and won.
Permanently End the Punitive Death Tax
Marco’s comprehensive pro-growth, pro-family tax reform will permanently end the death tax and allow for immediate expensing of new machinery and equipment. According to the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, the plan would raise wages and boost investment dramatically. Read more about his tax plan here.
Oppose New Taxes on Energy
As President, Marco would fight the establishment of a cap-and-trade program or carbon tax, which would act as a new national energy tax on agriculture producers. In addition, Marco will push for other reforms to unleash American energy production and bring down energy costs for farmers.
Open New Markets for Farmers and Ranchers
Marco supports Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), which asserts Congress’s role in critical trade negotiations and paves the way for the creation of agricultural jobs. Marco would also push for timely completion of trade agreements to boost exports for American farmers and ranchers.
Curb Overregulation
Farmers and ranchers deal with huge costs imposed by the federal regulations, which interfere in labeling procedures, impose new permitting requirements, land use, and more. Marco has proposed a National Regulatory Budget that would cap the costs federal regulations can impose on the economy, including a limit for each individual agency. This would prevent regulators from imposing costly new rules at whim, and give Congress the ability to rein in regulators.
Marco has fought to protect the Second Amendment by:
- Voting to block the Manchin-Bloomberg expansion of background checks
- Fighting to defund the Department of Justice’s radical “Operation Choke Point” and other federal attacks on law-abiding gun manufacturers and dealers
- Pushing to bring fundamental Second Amendment rights back to D.C. residents
- Protecting the Second Amendment rights of veterans and their families
- Standing against any federal attempt to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines
- Pushing to make concealed-carry permits function like drivers’ licenses, so gun owners’ constitutional rights don’t end at state lines
- Opposing U.S. involvement in the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty
- Working to expand opportunities for sportsmen on federal lands
Enact Comprehensive Tax Reform that Protects Small Businesses
Marco supports comprehensive tax reform that will:
- Cut taxes for small businesses to 25%;
- Let businesses immediately expense new investments;
- Permanently repeal the death tax.
- Repeal ObamaCare in full, including the $1 trillion of tax hikes on workers and employers, in particular the job-destroying employer mandate and obstacles to hiring full-time workers;
- Support consumer-centered reforms that lower costs and provide flexibility to businesses.
Fight for Accountable Regulatory Policies
- Establish a National Regulatory Budget to hold unelected regulators accountable;
- Let Congress vote up or down on regulations that have a major impact on the economy;
- Expose the true costs of regulations on the American economy and small businesses;
- Dramatically increase small business input in the regulatory process.
- Expand responsible production of American-made energy, including oil, coal, natural gas, and renewables;
- Immediately approve construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline;
- Fight cap-and-trade, a carbon tax, and new regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency that act as a national energy tax.
- Protect the secret ballot for workers during union elections;
- Prohibit unions from siphoning off worker dues for political activities; and
- Remove union-imposed obstacles to workers receiving pay increases and bonuses.
VA Reform
Marco has introduced legislation allowing secretaries of the VA to remove any VA employee based on performance or misconduct. Without the basic accountability this measure offers, we’ll never have a VA that works for veterans rather than bureaucrats.
Similarly, competition will push the VA to provide top quality care. If veterans don’t feel like the Veterans Health Administration suits their needs, Marco supports giving them the option to use the exact same funds to see an approved private sector provider of their choice.
Marco will also fight to streamline and reform the VA bureaucracy and protect whistleblowers from retaliation.
Education That Works for Vets
Marco’s plans for higher-ed reform will offer veterans more flexible, up-to-date options for higher education, including an emphasis on vocational training.
New approaches to higher education possible thanks to accreditation reform, for instance, can give veterans better opportunities after leaving the service. What a soldier has done in the military — say, driving a truck or running a logistics operation — should help count toward education and professional certifications here at home.
Restoring Military Strength
Marco’s plans to strengthen the military will ensure that our servicemembers will go into battle with the best training and equipment we can offer. Reversing sequestration, and keeping our forces at the levels we need, will mean that veterans aren’t coming home to pink slips. Military benefits systems also need to be examined and updated to make sense in the 21st century economy, to ensure that pensions and other compensation are attracting the very best to the military.
- Lift Union-Imposed Pay Caps on Millions of American Workers: Marco is fighting for the Rewarding Achievement and Incentivizing Successful Employees (RAISE) Act, which removes union-imposed obstacles to pay increases for millions of workers.
- Expand Options for Workers: Marco supports allowing employers to provide workers with a choice between receiving monetary compensation or paid leave for working overtime.
- Worker Choice: Marco supports giving all workers the choice over whether or not they join a union.
- Reform the NLRB: Marco supports reforming the NLRB to ensure that it acts as a neutral arbiter, not an arm of Big Labor to punish the private sector and workers.
- Reverse the NLRB’s Disastrous “Joint Employer” Decision: The NLRB’s “joint employer” decision will hurt small businesses, especially franchises. Marco supports reversing this disastrous decision and returning control to small businesses.
Marco has a comprehensive tax reform plan that will cut taxes for working Americans, jumpstart investment, and slash corporate taxes to boost wages.
The nonpartisan Tax Foundation estimates that it will raise wages for all taxpayers and create millions of jobs. Read more about the plan here.
Protect the Sharing Economy
Marco will oppose harmful new mandates, regulations, and taxes that can get in the way of innovative work opportunities provided by the sharing economy. Read more about that here.
Overhaul Higher Education
Marco proposes modernizing our outdated higher education system so that American workers can get the skills they need at an affordable price and in ways compatible with other priorities. Read more about the proposals here.
Unleash American Energy Potential
Making the best use of America’s energy resources provides abundant opportunities for high-paying jobs, many of which don’t even require a college degree. Marco will lift the ban on crude oil exports, allow states to oversee energy production on federal lands, and more. Read about his energy plans here.
Limit Regulatory Overreach
Marco has proposed a national regulatory budget, which will set a limit on the costs that can be imposed by federal regulations overall and by rules from each federal agency. This will roll back regulators’ ability to strangle job creation and restore Congress’s ability to oversee regulation. Read more about the idea here.
RUBIO 2016!
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Continuing to take the stand that a marriage should be between "one man and one woman" only will help him get the Republican nomination, but being on the wrong side of history will hurt him more than help in the general election.
