John McCain: Campaign Issues

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Iraq

• Favors deploying more troops.
• Strengthen Iraqi armed forces and police.
• Keep senior officers in place.
• Call for international pressure on Syria and Iran to get involved to help stabilize Iraq.
• Implement new counterinsurgency strategy.
• Accelerate political and economic reconstruction.

Energy/Environment

• Encourage developing nations, China, and India to join with other countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases
• Implement a mandatory cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon emissions
• Seek ways to eliminate U.S. dependence on foreign oil
• Limit carbon emissions by harnessing market forces that will bring advanced technologies, such as nuclear energy, to the market faster

Immigration

• Vows to secure U.S. borders
• Supports a temporary worker program
• Recognize the importance of the assimilation of our immigrant population, which includes learning English, American history and civics, and respecting the values of a democratic society

Health care

• Allow national insurance companies to sell across state borders.
• Foster development of routes for safe, cheaper generic drugs and biologic pharmaceuticals; safety protocols to permit re-importation.
• Eliminate bias for employer-sponsored health insurance, and $2,500 Health Insurance Credit for individuals ($5,000 for families).
• Portable insurance.
• Give veterans access to local physicians.
• Require states receiving Medicaid to develop financial "risk adjustment" bonus to high-cost and low-income families.
• Individual insurance through any organization or association.
• Promote competition in health care system.

Taxes

• Tax cuts for middle class families; repeal Alternative Minimum Tax.
• Make Bush income and investment tax cuts permanent.
• Permanent R&D tax credit.

Education

• Tax deductions for college tuition.
• Favors school choice: vouchers, charters, home-schooling.
• Tax-free savings accounts for education expenses.

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