Missouri Farm Bureau
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Kevin Craig - "Liberty Under God"
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| General |
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| We favor
continuous monitoring of foreign investments in the United States. |
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| We oppose
preferential tax treatment of foreign investors and insist that all
foreign investors be subject to the same tax liabilities as U.S.
citizens. |
It is difficult to imagine a more foolish
policy than taxing investments, which create the capital necessary
to provide our material needs and our enviable standard of living.
Investments produce; taxation depletes and funds
unnecessary government programs. Both foreign and domestic
investment should be tax-free. |
| We favor maintaining the existing U.S. currency
exchange system and oppose any movement to an "Amero" or
any combination thereof with Mexico and Canada. |
A separate website has been created to
describe the threat of the "Security and Prosperity
Partnership." This agreement suggests that the U.S. should not
fight terrorism by securing its borders with Mexico and Canada, but
should merge the three nations into a North American Union and the
three present governments could be united to fight terrorism at the
common North American border. www.STOPtheSPP.US |
| Due to the
concern for identify theft and privacy issues in our personal lives,
we oppose moving to a cashless society with electronic transfers to
foreign countries. |
Digital cash is actually a tremendous
barrier to government intrusion on individual liberties and privacy. See these
Digital Finance
links. Free market encryption protects
against identity theft. |
| We oppose Missouri or any
portion thereof being designated as a regional center by the United
States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), which would make
the state eligible to accept foreign investments focused on the
expansion of agriculture production and infrastructure. |
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| Immigration |
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| We believe immigration reform should include the
following four processes: |
The only power given to the federal
government in the Constitution is the power to determine
citizenship. No power is given to the federal government to infringe
on rights to immigrate, emigrate, or employ those who do.
The Kevin Craig campaign website has a comprehensive subsection on immigration. The campaign blog also contains additional resources. |
| 1. Secure our borders, |
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| 2. Deny amnesty to illegal immigrants, |
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| 3. Put in place a guest worker program, without amnesty,
that will efficiently provide American employers with willing guest
workers who come to America legally, and |
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| 4. Enforce tough employer sanctions that ensure a full
partnership between American business and the American government in
the enforcement of our laws on immigration and guest workers. The
current system for verifying documents and worker eligibility should
be strengthened. |
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| We support reforming the H-2a visa program to better
enable American farmers, including those who have year-round labor
needs, to recruit legal temporary foreign workers when domestic
workers cannot fulfill labor demand. |
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| United Nations |
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| Whereas
the United Nations, through its policies and
programs, demonstrates philosophies that are in direct conflict with
the principles in the U.S. Constitution and with the principles of
the free enterprise system; and whereas the United Nations seeks to
impose its philosophies upon the American people through a variety
of international treaties and agreements; therefore we oppose the
ratification of: |
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The UN Convention on Biological Diversity, |
Kevin Craig opposes all these Conventions, and believes the U.N.
should be abolished entirely. |
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The UN Convention on the Law of the Seas, |
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The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and |
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The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women. |
| Due
to the fact that there is no scientific consensus to support the
theory of global warming, we are
opposed to the ratification or implementation by regulation of the
Kyoto Protocol to the U.N. Climate Change Treaty. The provisions of
this protocol would severely reduce the ability of America and other
developed nations to compete with the rest of the world. |
In addition to the link at left,
attention should be paid to the fact that the
"environmental movement" is toxic. A substantial core
of the movement hates human beings, and believes that the earth
would be better without the human race. The environmental movement
is pathological. |
| We
support the withdrawal of the United States from further
participation in, and funding of, the United
Nations. |
Kevin Craig supports this. Republicans oppose the Missouri Farm Bureau on this issue. |