Republican National Committee Platform
Republican National Committee Platform 2016
Preamble
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See Section one of six ( pdf )
>A new, simple tax code, pro growth.
>Savings taxes lowered.
>Eliminate loopholes.
>Curb corporate welfare.
>Support aging population.
>Support families with children.
>Oppose retroactive taxation.
>Prevent judges from ordering new taxes
.
>Keep churches tax deductible / and contributions.
>Any value added tax or national sales tax must
be tied to the simultaneous repeal of the Sixteenth
Amendment, which established the federal income tax.
>Lowering the corporate tax rate to be on a par with,
or below, the rates of other industrial nations.
>Taxation so that profits earned and taxed abroad may be
repatriated for job-creating investment here at home. We believe American companies should be headquartered in America.
>Better negotiated trade agreements. Want multilateral agreement
among nations committed to the principles of open markets,
what has been called a “Reagan Economic Zone,” in which free
trade will truly be fair trade. We cannot allow foreign governments
to limit American access to their markets while stealing our
designs, patents, brands, know-how, and technology. We
cannot allow China to continue its currency manipulation,
exclusion of U.S. products from government purchases, and
subsidization of Chinese companies to thwart American imports.
Significant trade agreements should not be rushed or undertaken
in a Lame Duck Congress.
>Dodd Frank, its Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,m it it is not
abolished, it should be subjected to congressional appropriation.
>Let failing banks & financial institutions face bankruptcy.
>Remove wrongful regulations from community banks.
>We will end the government’s use of disparate impact theory
in enforcing anti-discrimination laws with regard to lending.
>Reform House lending regulations
>Reform Freddie Mac & Fannie May, possibly combining them.
>End federal quotas in housing lending.
>Keep housing zoning local.
>We propose to remove from he Highway Trust Fund programs
that should not be the business of the federal government.
>Reform National Environmental Policy Act .
>Phase out the federal transit program.
>Repeal of the Davis-Bacon law.
>Return The Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
to pre-Obama non-union status.
>Let Amtrak go private.
>Stop federal subsidy of California's high speed train
>Internet spectrum competition. / on demand open markets
>A goal of universal broadband coverage especial to rural areas
>Expedite the re-energizing of our electrical grid.
>National Labs, the National Institutes of Health, NASA,
and elements of the Defense Department — have
the potential to form partnerships with small busi-nesses
to create an American Start-Up Century.
>Audit the Federal Reserve annually..
>A commission to investigate ways to set US currency to metals.
>A new Labor Law - including labor union law
>Minimum wage should be state laws.
>Reduce extraordinary federal job benefits, in line with regular jobs.
>Find caps on new debt.
>Accelerate payments on debt.
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