Chuck Baldwin''s Positions & Statements on the Issues
Positions are categorized as Pro, Con, Not Clearly Pro or Con, or None Found. |
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| Abortion: | "Should abortion remain a legal option in America?" | |
Con: "I believe abortion is America's national holocaust. It is the deliberate killing of innocent human life. Furthermore, it is absolutely disgraceful that while the so-called "pro-life" Republican Party controlled the entire federal government from 2000 to 2006, they did nothing to overturn Roe v. Wade and end legalized abortion."
"Strictly Personal," www.renewamerica.us, May 9, 2008
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| Abortion: | "Should parental consent be required for pregnant minors to have abortions?" | |
Pro: "Pro. But abortion would be illegal, so this would not be applicable." Email to ProCon.org from Chuck Baldwin's Communications Director, Mary Starrett, on Aug. 11, 2008
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| Character: | "Is competence more important than honesty in a President?" | |
Not Clearly Pro or Con: "Both are important."
Email to ProCon.org from Chuck Baldwin's Communications Director, Mary Starrett, on Aug. 11, 2008
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| China: | "Is China a threat to the US?" | |
Pro: "Speaking of China, it is time that we recognize the very serious threat that China poses to the peace and security of the United States."
"If I Were President," www.chuckbaldwinlive.com, May 3, 2008
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| China: | "Should the US impose economic sanctions on China as an incentive to improve its human rights policies?" | |
Not Clearly Pro or Con: "The U.S. should terminate most-favored-nation (PNTR) status for Communist China, and discontinue technology transfers to the Beijing regime." Email to ProCon.org from Chuck Baldwin's Communications Director, Mary Starrett, on Aug. 11, 2008
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| Criminal Justice: | "Should felons, who have completed their jail time and probation and paid all their fines, be allowed to vote in elections?" | |
Not Clearly Pro or Con: "The nature of the crime of which the felon was committed should be taken into consideration in determining whether a particular felon should be allowed to vote in elections. This is a matter to be determined at the state level, not by the Federal government."
Email to ProCon.org from Chuck Baldwin's Communications Director, Mary Starrett, on Aug. 18, 2008
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| Criminal Justice: | "Should the US develop programs that focus more on rehabilitation than punishment in order to reduce its rate of incarceration?" | |
Not Clearly Pro or Con: "Determinations of appropriate punishment should be made at the state and local level."
Email to ProCon.org from Chuck Baldwin's Communications Director, Mary Starrett, on Aug. 18, 2008
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| Cuba: | "Should the US continue to support an embargo against Cuba?" | |
Pro: "Yes, especially at a time when Moscow is using Cuba as a footstool to taunt the United States, we should do all we can to maintain and enhance the pressure on the Cuba regime."
Email to ProCon.org from Chuck Baldwin's Communications Director, Mary Starrett, on Aug. 11, 2008
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| Darfur: | "Should the US send any American forces, with or without the UN, to the Darfur region of Sudan to stop the genocide?" | |
Con: "We would support and encourage all private citizens and private humanitarian aid to work to change the situation in the Darfur region.
These United States is [sic] properly a free and sovereign republic which should strive to live in peace with all nations, without interfering in their internal affairs, and without permitting their interference in ours. We are, therefore, unalterably opposed to entangling alliances - via treaties, or any other form of commitment - which compromise our national sovereignty, or commit us to intervention in foreign wars.
Also, the Constitution Party would "call upon the President, and Congress, to terminate United States membership in the United Nations, and its subsidiary organizations, and terminate U.S. participation in all so-called U.N. peace keeping operations."
Email to ProCon.org from Chuck Baldwin's Communications Director, Mary Starrett, on Aug. 11, 2008
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| Death Penalty: | "Should the death penalty remain a legal option in America?" | |
Pro: "The Supreme Court should in no way interfere with the ability of the duty of the states to impose the death penalty in appropriate circumstances. At the Federal level, the government has usurped responsibility in the criminal justice area. It was recognized in the early days of our republic when there were only three crimes subject to Federal jurisdiction; piracy, counterfeiting, and treason. That has now increased to some 4,450 crimes. We should go back to the original limit."
Email to ProCon.org from Chuck Baldwin's Communications Director, Mary Starrett, on Aug. 11, 2008
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| Defense: | "Should the US build its missile defense shield in former Soviet states despite objections from Russia?" | |
Con: "It has not been clearly established that such deployments are necessary to the defense of U.S. territory and population."
Email to ProCon.org from Chuck Baldwin's Communications Director, Mary Starrett, on Aug. 18, 2008
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| District of Columbia: | "Should the District of Columbia become the 51st US state?" | |
Con: "No. This is clearly prohibited by the Constitution of the United States."
Email to ProCon.org from Chuck Baldwin's Communications Director, Mary Starrett, on Aug. 18, 2008
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| Economy: | "Is outsourcing jobs to other countries good for America?" | |
Con: "Talented professionals should have their best opportunities for employment within the United States. If the Federal government limited its activities and expenditures to those which are Constitutionally permissible, the outsourcing of jobs and businesses would cease to be the problem which it has become."
Email to ProCon.org from Chuck Baldwin's Communications Director, Mary Starrett, on Aug. 11, 2008
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| Economy: | "Should the US include mandatory regulations for labor rights in free trade agreements?" | |
Con: "Chuck Baldwin as president would 'immediately commence a systematic withdrawal from these treaties and agreements, each of which holds the potential to plunge America into war in some far-flung corner of the earth.' The US would no longer be involved in any free trade agreements, so would not mandate any regulations for foreign countries."
Email to ProCon.org from Chuck Baldwin's Communications Director, Mary Starrett, on Aug. 11, 2008
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| Economy: | "Has the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) had an overall benefit for the US?" | |
Con: "We favor the abolition of the Office of Special Trade Representative, and insist on the withdrawal of these United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and all other agreements wherein agencies other than the Congress of these United States improperly assume responsibility for establishing American trade policies."
Email to ProCon.org from Chuck Baldwin's Communications Director, Mary Starrett, on Aug. 11, 2008
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| Economy: | "Should the federal government bail out failing US private corporations like it did with Bear Stearns or Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac at taxpayers expense?" | |
Con: "At the time of this writing, the U.S. House and Senate are poised to pass a $700 billion bailout to Wall Street. At the behest of President George W. Bush, the U.S. taxpayers are going to be on the hook for what can only be referred to as the biggest fraud in U.S. history...
Bear Stearns was awarded a $29 billion bailout, followed quickly by the bailout of Freddie and Fannie that will cost the taxpayers up to $200 billion...
I say, No amnesty for Wall Street...Instead of sending these banksters on extended vacations to the Bahamas with millions of taxpayer dollars in their pockets, we should be sending them straight to jail!""No Amnesty for Wall Street," www.chuckbaldwinlive.com, Sep. 26, 2008
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| Economy: | "Do labor unions provide an overall benefit to workers in the US?" | |
None Found: ProCon.org emailed the Baldwin campaign on Oct. 29, 2008 with this question. We had not received a reply or found a position as of Oct. 31, 2008.
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| Education: | "Has the No Child Left Behind Act been effective at improving public education?" | |
Con: "The Department of Education of course is a monstrosity that was created back in Jimmy Carter's administration as a payoff, literally, to the teacher's union for support. Of course, just recently under President Bush, who collaborated with Ted Kennedy, they put together the No Child Left Behind Act which gave the Department of Education more power and more authority over education than had ever been known before in this country... Again, the Department of Education is one of those departments that when I become president will no longer exist... If the federal intrusion into education worked as they said it would work, then why are we slipping every year it seems, further and further down on the competence level when you compare our test scores to the other industrialized nations of the world. Now if federal dollars was the answer, if federal involvement was the answer, then this would not be happening. This dumbing down would not be occurring, and the falling behind in education would not be happening. The fact that it is happening is a testament to the reality of the situation, which is that the more the federal government gets involved in education the worse education becomes."
Email to ProCon.org from Chuck Baldwin's Communications Director, Mary Starrett, on Aug. 11, 2008
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| Education: | "Is the increasing cost of college and university tuition pricing America's middle class out of higher education?" | |
Not Clearly Pro or Con: "One way to reduce the economic burden on American students is to stop giving tuition advantages to illegal aliens and the children of illegal aliens."
Email to ProCon.org from Chuck Baldwin's Communications Director, Mary Starrett, on Aug. 11, 2008
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