Romney's Believe In America Plan-- The "Short" 59 Point Version

 Here is Gov. Mitt Romney's Plan for America  called Believe in America.  The reason I have listed only the 59 points without explanation is that the entire plan covers 85 pages. For someone who advocates smaller government it would seem that they could present their plan in less than 85 pages. Gingrich presented his in 24 pages. Cain in 10, Ron Paul in less than three. 

Regardless of the length it is important to at least be familiar with the main points of each candidate in order to be an informed voter and to be able to better to express the differences in your particular candidates plan and the others. 

If you wish to read ,and I recommend that you do, the entire text of Gov. Romney's Believe in America plan you may do so here 

59 Policy Proposals That Will Get America Back To Work

1. Maintain current tax rates on personal income
2. Maintain current tax rates on interest, dividends, and capital gains
3. Eliminate taxes for taxpayers with AGI below $200,000 on interest, dividends, and capital gains
4. Eliminate the death tax
5. Pursue a conservative overhaul of the tax system over the long term that includes lower,fatter rates on a broader base
6. Reduce corporate income tax rate to 25 percent7. Pursue transition from “worldwide” to “territorial” system for corporate taxation

8. Repeal Obamacare

9. Repeal Dodd-Frank and replace with streamlined, modern regulatory framework

10. Amend Sarbanes-Oxley to relieve mid-size companies from onerous requirements

11. Ensure that environmental laws properly account for cost in regulatory process

12 Provide multi-year lead times before companies must come into compliance withonerous new environmental regulations

13. Initiate review and elimination of all Obama-era regulations that unduly burden the economy 

14. Impose a regulatory cap of zero dollars on all federal agencies

15. Require congressional approval of all new “major” regulations

16. Reform legal liability system to prevent spurious litigation

17. Implement agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea 

18. Reinstate the president’s Trade Promotion Authority 

19. Complete negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership

20. Pursue new trade agreements with nations committed to free enterprise and open markets

21. Create the Reagan Economic Zone

22. Increase CBP resources to prevent the illegal entry of goods into our market

23. Increase USTR resources to pursue and support litigation against unfair trade practices

24. Use unilateral and multilateral punitive measures to deter unfair Chinese practices

25. Designate China a currency manipulator and impose countervailing duties

26. Discontinue U.S. government procurement from China until China commits to GPA 

27. Establish fixed timetables for all resource development approvals 

28. Create one-stop shop to streamline permitting process for approval of common activities

29. Implement fast-track procedures for companies with established safety records to conduct pre-approved activities in pre-approved areas

30. Amend Clean Air Act to exclude carbon dioxide from its purview 

31. Expand NRC capabilities for approval of additional nuclear reactor designs

32. Streamline NRC processes to ensure that licensing decisions for reactors on or adjacent to

approved sites, using approved designs, are complete within two years

33. Conduct comprehensive survey of America’s energy reserves

34. Open America’s energy reserves for development

35. Expand opportunities for U.S. resource developers to forge partnerships with neighboring countries

36 Support construction of pipelines to bring Canadian oil to the United States

37. Prevent overregulation of shale gas development and extraction

38 Concentrate alternative energy funding on basic research

39. Utilize long-term, apolitical funding mechanisms like ARPA-E for basic research

40. Appoint to the NLRB experienced individuals with respect for the rule of law 

41. Amend NLRA to explicitly protect the right of business owners to allocate their capital as they see fit 

42. Amend NLRA to guarantee the secret ballot in every union certification election

43. Amend NLRA to guarantee that all pre-election campaigns last at least one month

44. Support states in pursuing Right-to-Work laws

45. Prohibit the use for political purposes of funds automatically deducted from worker paychecks

46. Reverse executive orders issued by President Obama that tilt the playing field toward organized labor

47. Eliminate redundancy in federal retraining programs by consolidating programs and funding schemes, centering as much activity as possible in a single agency 

48. Give states authority to manage retraining programs by block granting federal funds

49. Facilitate the creation of Personal Reemployment Accounts

50. Encourage greater private sector involvement in retraining programs

51. Raise visa caps for highly skilled workers

52. Grant permanent residency to eligible graduates with advanced degrees in math, science,and engineering 

53. Immediately cut non-security discretionary spending by 5 percent

54. Reform and restructure Medicaid as block grant to states

55. Align wages and benefits of government workers with market rates

56. Reduce federal workforce by 10 percent via attrition

57. Cap federal spending at 20 percent of GDP

58. Undertake fundamental restructuring of government programs and services

59. Pursue a Balanced Budget  Amendment