BOOK SUMMARY by OnTheIssues.org:

This book puts OnTheIssues' web content into book form -- a direct comparison of issue stances -- not personal biographies, not political horserace analysis, not scandal histories. Each headline below is backed up with a referenced citation, in context, so you can compare for yourself what each candidate says. The comparisons are made convenient in a side-by-side layout, with book reviews and a VoteMatch issue summary at the end.

• Domestic Issues
• Economic Issues
• Social Issues
• International Issues
• Book Reviews
• VoteMatch questionnaire
• Other books in this series

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  Domestic Issues	Ron Paul	Newt Gingrich
  Mandatory Sentencing:	Funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons	3-strike laws are constitutional; enforce courts compliance
  Death Penalty:	Too many capital convictions have been proven errors	Voted NO on replacing death penalty with life imprisonment
  Gun Rights:	Opposes the DC Gun Ban; it’s not just a “collective right”	Don’t redefine Constitution with no individual right to arms
  Drugs in Society:	We don’t need laws to tell us to not use heroin	Drug-free society focuses on both drug supply & demand
  Marijuana Legalization:	Legalize industrial hemp	Marijuana legalization would tear America apart
  Nuclear Waste:	No nuclear waste in Yucca Mt.; it’s other states’ garbage	Put nuclear waste in deep storage for 10,000 years
  Animal Rights:	Scored 14% on Humane Society Scorecard on animal protection	Early 1980s: co-sponsored Endangered Species Act
  Environment vs. Economy:	Property rights are the foundation of all rights	Combine healthy environment and a healthy economy
  WikiLeaks:	WikiLeaks only released true but embarrassing information	Treat WikiLeaks as enemy combatants engaged in terrorism
  Outer Space Policy:	Militarizing outer space impoverishes America	Replace NASA with incentives to private sector
  Citizen Loyalty:	National ID card is part of fear-based government	Loyalty test for everyone, not just for Muslims
  Health mandate:	States CAN mandate insurance, but it’s a bad idea	If you mandate healthcare, you mandate everything in life
  Medicare:	Let people opt out of Medicare	Block grant Medicaid; create individual incentives & bonuses
  ObamaCare:	ObamaCare is only as socialized as Bush’s & Nixon’s reforms	Repeal ObamaCare; sign tort reform instead

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  Economic Issues	Ron Paul	Newt Gingrich
  Financial Bailout:	Don’t bail out banks; bail out homeowners	Insure banks rather than pass out checks
  Automaker Bailout:	Auto company nationalization is fascism	Bailout combines bad policy with worst of Detroit’s decay
  Wall Street Reform:	Go after crony capitalism; defend real capitalism	Dodd-Frank kills small business & small banks
  Economic Stimulus:	Stimulus package means more printing & devaluing the dollar	No sequel to failed stimulus & job-killing policies
  Reaganomics:	1980s had huge deficits, despite Reagan’s message	Voted against Reagan tax increases & Bush tax increases
  Federal Reserve secrecy:	Fed has ominous power with no oversight & no control	The Fed’s secrecy & power are antithetical to a free society
  Balanced Budget:	Supports Balanced Budget & on-budget accounting	Demand a Balanced Budget amendment
  Term Limits:	I vote for term limits, but they won’t solve anything	Limit punitive damages; term limits on Congress
  Earmarks:	Put 65 projects into 2006 bills, worth $4B to his district	Democrats say they oppose earmarks, but proposed 8,000
  Unions:	Right to organize; but no special benefits for unions	Defund National Labor Relations Board; favor right-to-work
  Unemployment Extension:	No extending unemployment benefits from 39 to 59 weeks	Go to college instead of 99 weeks of unemployment
  Social Security Privatization:	System is broke; allow young people to get out	Take Social Security off federal budget; give young a choice
  Tax-and-Spend policies:	Tax code is the symptom; spending is the problem	1995 budget: cut taxes, regulations, & spending
  Marriage Penalty:	Voted YES on reducing Marriage Tax by $399B over 10 years	Marriage penalty costs low-income couples $4,600 per year

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  Social Issues	Ron Paul	Newt Gingrich
  Abortion Funding:	No tax funding for organizations that promote abortion	Immediately cease public funding for abortion providers
  Abortion Morality:	Abortion causes inconsistent moral basis for value of life	Stop forcing pro-choice morality on religious organizations
  Judicial Activism:	Nominate only judges who refuse to legislate from the bench	Impeach judges who don’t abide by Constitution as written
  Welfare State:	Welfare state isn’t in the Constitution	When free welfare is provided, people choose not to work
  Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell:	Don’t ask, don’t tell is a decent policy for gays in army	Army & Marines wanted Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell
  Defense of Marriage Act:	No need for Marriage Amendment; DOMA is enough	I helped author DOMA; if it fails, amend Constitution
  Churches and Same-Sex Marriage:	Let churches marry couples, without government document	Stop forcing same-sex marriage on religious organizations
  Affirmative Action:	No affirmative action for any group	Affirmative action OK individually, but not by group
  College Loans:	Student loan program is a total failure and unconstitutional	College students should work and graduate with no debt
  Department of Education:	Close Dept. of Education, but don’t dismantle public schools	Dramatically shrink the federal Department of Education
  School Prayer:	School prayer is not a federal issue	Voluntary school prayer creates bond between you and Creator
  Homeschooling:	Guarantee parity for home school diplomas	Let parents choose public, private, parochial, or homeschool
  School Vouchers:	Competition helps, but vouchers invite bureaucratic control	Voucherize inner-city programs from schools to groceries
  The Tea Party:	Breaks one-day fundraising record: $6M at “Boston Tea Party”	Tea Party prevents mistake of electing conservative Democrats
  Principles of Liberty:	Liberty promotes peace, and peace promotes prosperity	Five habits of liberty sustain American Exceptionalism

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  International Issues	Ron Paul	Newt Gingrich
  Climate Change:	Absurd to let global bureaucrats try to manipulate climate	Kyoto treaty is bad for the environment and bad for America
  Oil Drilling:	Big Oil profits ok; Big Oil subsidies are not	2008 book: Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less
  China Trade:	China trade not contingent on human rights & product safety	Protectionism helps China & India challenge US supremacy
  National ID Cards:	Tamper-proof I.D. for immigrants is a bad idea	Employers should use e-verify for all hires
  Illegal Alien Deportation:	No amnesty, but impractical to round up 12 million illegals	Review all illegal aliens & if you have no ties, go home
  Guest Workers:	Give illegals limbo status: a green card with an asterisk	I voted for Reagan’s legal guest worker program
  American Exceptionalism:	Exceptionalism shouldn’t mean using force around the world	American Exceptionalism: uniquely far-reaching individualism
  North Korea:	Get out of South Korea and let two Koreas unify	We have failed for a decade to deal with North Korea & Iran
  Iranian Sanctions:	Israel won’t attack Iran, and neither should we	Sabotage Iran’s oil refinery
  International Diplomacy:	Right to spread our values, but wrong to spread by force	We need a dramatically expanded use of statecraft
  Foreign Aid:	Foreign aid wastes billions, with unintended consequences	1993: $1.6B Russia aid package was “great defining moment"
  The Patriot Act:	The Patriot Act is unpatriotic; it undermines our liberty	Defend America & allies with information policies
  Defense spending:	We can blow up the world 20 times and we can’t cut a penny?	Defense as percentage of GDP is lowest since WWII
  Sources of Terrorism:	We believe Osama’s threats, so why not believe his reasons?	The “Irreconcilable Wing of Islam” threatens our way of life
  Iraq War:	The Iraq war was not worth the price in blood and treasure	Goal was to liberate Iraq from Saddam, not to occupy

  OnTheIssues.org excerpts:  (click on issues for details)

  Budget & Economy     Newt Gingrich: Ron Paul's economic stances compared to Gingrich's.

  Education     Newt Gingrich: Gingrich's education stances compared to Ron Paul's.

  Foreign Policy     Ron Paul: Newt Gingrich's foreign policy stances compared to Paul's.

  Health Care     Ron Paul: Newt Gingrich's healthcare stances compared to Paul's.

  
  

  Click for quotations from other sources by:
  • Newt Gingrich
  • Ron Paul

  The above quotations are from Gingrich vs. Paul On The Issues:
  Side-by-side stances on the issues
  by Jesse Gordon of OnTheIssues.org.

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  VoteMatch Social Issues	Ron Paul	vs.	Newt Gingrich
  Abortion is a woman’s right	Opposes		Strongly Opposes
  Require companies to hire more women & minorities	Strongly Opposes		Strongly Opposes
  Same-sex domestic partnership benefits	Favors		Opposes
  Teacher-led prayer in public schools	Favors		Strongly Favors
  Parents choose schools via vouchers	Favors		Strongly Favors
  VoteMatch Domestic Issues	Ron Paul	vs.	Newt Gingrich
  More federal funding for health coverage	Opposes		Strongly Opposes
  Death Penalty	Strongly Opposes		Strongly Favors
  Mandatory Three Strikes sentencing laws	Opposes		Favors
  Absolute right to gun ownership	Favors		Favors
  Drug use is immoral: enforce laws against it	Strongly Opposes		Strongly Favors
  VoteMatch Economic Issues	Ron Paul	vs.	Newt Gingrich
  Privatize Social Security	Strongly Favors		Strongly Favors
  Make taxes more progressive	Strongly Opposes		Opposes
  Stricter limits on political campaign funds	Opposes		Strongly Opposes
  Allow churches to provide welfare services	Favors		Favors
  Replace coal & oil with alternatives	Strongly Opposes		Strongly Opposes
  VoteMatch International Issues	Ron Paul	vs.	Newt Gingrich
  Illegal immigrants earn citizenship	Strongly Opposes		Neutral
  Support & expand free trade	Opposes		Favors
  The Patriot Act harms civil liberties	Strongly Favors		Strongly Opposes
  Expand the armed forces	Opposes		Strongly Favors
  US out of Iraq & Afghanistan	Strongly Favors		Favors

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