Rick Santorum
Candidate Website: Rick Santorum's Campaign Website
Stance on Jobs
Would cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 0% to create jobs in America.
“What I’ve proposed is to take the corporate tax, which is 35 percent on manufacturers, and cut that to zero — eliminate the corporate tax if you manufacture and process here in this country — that will bring a lot of those jobs back,”Source: http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/Santorum-eliminate-corporate-tax/2011/08/31/id/409225
Stance on Collective Bargaining
Does not support collective bargaining rights and believes public employee unions are "costing us money".
“I think the most important area that we have to focus in on when it comes to unions is public employee unions. That's the area of unionization that's growing the fastest and it's costing us the most money."
Stance on Retirement Security
Believs abortion is partly culpable for Social Security probems. The current program makes "no sense at all."
"The reason Social Security is in big trouble is we don't have enough workers to support the retirees. Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion.""Social Security was established for people who were too old to work and therefore they needed the support of the federal government…Now back in 1936 we probably did and that made sense. Why? Because life expectancy in 1936 was 61. It’s now 80… So you have a situation where things have changed, and for our young people it will even be longer. We keep gaining about a month every few years, we gain in life expectancy. And so the idea that we’re going to keep the Social Security program locked in on a 1937 actuarial chart makes no sense at all.”Sources:
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-03-30/news/29381880_1_randall-k-o-bannon-abortion-rick-santorum
Stance on Health Care
Believes Obamacare puts us "on the road to European socialism" and would repeal the law.
“If we let states mandate insurance, sterilization is ok too.”“You get [Obamacare] done, you are on the road to European socialism”“All the other necessities of life, we allow people to have varying degrees of creature comforts, if you will. Why? Because we are people who ration our resources based upon what’s important to us and health care has to be one of those things, which is in the mix of things we make decisions about as to what type of, what kind of money we want to allocate to that.”Sources:
http://www.issues2000.org/2011_Straw_Poll.htm