McAfee on the Issues
Foreign Policy:
We are not a police agency for the world. Our foreign involvements must be reigned in, and attention should be placed on looking at our own issues. While domestic policy will be the major focus of a McAfee administration, we will employ a foreign policy that augments our domestic policy.
First and foremost, we are to pursue our interests. This is the number one goal of a McAfee foreign policy. We reject the interventionist pursuit of idealistic and moral goals. Rather, we will focus on exerting out influence when and where it serves our national interests. Nothing more, nothing less. Nixon, in addressing congress in his first annual report on Foreign Policy states our goals quite clearly:
Our objective, in the first instance, is to support our interests over the long run with a sound foreign policy. The more that policy is based on a realistic view of our and others’ interests, the more effective our role in the world can be. We are not involved in the world because we have commitments; we have commitments because we are involved. Our interests must shape our commitments, rather than the other way around.
War on Drugs
Reduced criminalization. Mere possession of any chemical substance intended for self administration should be at most a misdemeanor.
One of the first acts of a McAfee Administration would be the wholesale decriminalization of marijuana – by changing it from a schedule one drug to either a schedule 4 or 5 drug, something that can be done without congressional consent – along with pardons to any individual serving time for non-violent marijuana possession without any attempt to distribute.
While Marijuana would be decriminalized on the federal level, it will be left up to the states to decide whether to completely legalize and/or make the sale of the drug legal.
Production of drugs in any other country is the concern of that country, even if America is the intended recipient.
Immigration
Tightening borders does nothing to increase National Security. Terrorists will enter the country no matter how much we attempt to secure our borders. The key to reducing terrorism is reducing our interference in the affairs of other nations.
Our borders should be opened, and the money now spent on patrolling them should be spent on creating a documentation process and an education system for immigrants.
Ultimately, a McAfee Administration would be one that looks to make immigration a much easier process. While we will have more specifics in the coming days, immigration should be seen as an asset, rather than xenophobic, rally around the flag issue. There are millions of people who want to immigrate to the US, most of which want to do so legally. That said, there are so many barriers in the way of legal immigration that it often makes more sense to immigrate illegally.
Do not misunderstand here, we will not rubber stamp every immigration form that comes in. The process will be a more streamlined, but there will still be many conditions that must be met.
Taxation
Our tax codes are unwieldy and expensive to manage. A simpler system must be found
Again, we will have more details in the coming days, but there are a few major components of a McAfee tax code that we can share. Firstly, we see it as unacceptable that many of the world’s largest corporations pay little to no taxes. The system, as it exists today, favors the ultra-rich. Why should someone living at or under the poverty line be taxed at a higher rate than a multi-billion dollar corporation?
Tax exemptions and credits were created to offer benefits to corporations that create U.S. Jobs, and bolster the U.S. economy. We will look to return that arrangement. Corporations that move jobs to China or Mexico, or anywhere outside of the U.S. will no longer receive preferential treatment. Rather these corporations will pay a much higher rate than those who operate and create jobs within the U.S. We will have to get creative, and look at these corporations on a case-by-case basis.
Further, at the same time, we will work to drastically simplify the code. It is our view that the federal tax code should be simple enough for even the layman to understand.
