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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 2000)
Choose Wisely Steamtunnels charts the hot campaign issues and where each candidate stands. GORE JiiPiWiSiii IliBiacrii H Beforni AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Opposes racial preferences. Supports a Texas law that requires universities to admit the top 10% of every high school graduating class. Criticized efforts to roil back affirmative action. Is in favor of affirmative action in higher education and the work place. Opposes affirmative action. Feels that there should be “no set asides, no forced busing, no mandatory hiring, no affirmative action." ENVIRONMENT Opposes federally funded environmen tal mandates. Supports funding for recycling programs, federal incentives for voluntary pollution clean-ups, and increased oil exploration. Longtime environmental advocate, push es for international greenhouse emis sions treaty. Wants to spend $2 billion over 10 years to set aside park land, and wants to invest in mass transit and light rail to reduce pollution and congestion on highways. Favors federal investments in public trans portation, alternative energy and the national park system. Is against logging on public lands, favors strict emissions standards and mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods. Would abolish the Bureau of Land Management; calls for return of 500 mil lion acres of land to the states. Opposes international environmental accords and prefers private land preservation over fed eral regulation. TAXES Wants a $483 billion tax cut. Would gradually reduce income tax levels and repeal estate taxes. Favors raising the standard deduction for married couples, credits for disabled and elderly, tax-free retirement accounts matched by the government. Supports deductions on secondary education, credits for small businesses and after school program expenses. Would give tax breaks for school construction and other community-building activities. Favors progressive taxation: the more you earn, the more you would pay. Favors a 16% flat income tax on earnings over $35,000 and tax cuts for inheritance tax and small businesses. Cuts would be paid for by higher tariffs. to '1 EDUCATION Supports more state and local control over education. Also supports stan dardized testing, the school voucher program and the development of more charter schools. Advocates increased funding for teacher training and development, wants to hire 2.2 million new teachers, opposes vouch ers, favors tax-free savings programs, and would like to provide bonuses to people who change professions to become teachers. Wants to raise teacher salaries and insti tute curricula that stress civic education. Would eliminate the Dept of Education and return its functions to the state and local level. Supports tax-free savings accounts for parents, favors a constitu tional amendment to allow school prayer, rejects bilingualism and “multicultural" cur-** ricula that “denigrates our history.” t Opposes national testing and national teacher standards. ABORTION Opposes abortion except in cases of rape, incest and danger to the mother. Has also supported parental notifica tion laws for minors seeking abortions. Supports abortion rights. Believes it should be “safe, legal and rare.” Does not support governmental regula tion of abortions. Opposes abortion. Favors passing Human Life Amendment to the Constitution and a bill conferring Constitutional rights of per sonhood on unborn children. Would cut funding to the “abortion industry”— Planned Parenthood and fetal tissue researchers. Would appoint only pro-life justices to the Supreme Court. CRIME Supports death penalty, instant back ground checks for purchases at gun shows and raising the legal age for gun purchases to 21. Is against mandatory child safety locks on guns and universal registration for guns. Advocates more police and prosecutors, more federal anti-crime programs. Supports license, background checks and safety tests to purchase handguns, as well as federally mandated trigger locks. Supports adding the Victims Rights Amendment to the Constitution. Is opposed to the death penalty, favors the legalization of industrial hemp, mandatory safety locks for guns, univer sal registration and licensing and the banning of certain types of guns. Strong supporter of gun-owners’ rights, also favors death penalty. Promises to "crack down” on U.S.-Mexico border drug traffic. SOCIAL SECURITY Supports partial privatization of system, including the creation of personal retirement accounts. Will never privatize or divert funds away from Social Security. Does not favor rais ing the age limit for people to collect Social Security. Does not believe social security system needs to be changed. Favors allowing the elderly to make their own health care decisions by investing in their own personal insurance accounts. Sources: yvote.com, politics.com, boston.com/campaign2000. See page 3 for photo credits.
