Bill McGaughey
Historical Details
Position on Issues
Other| Read My Position
"I am proposing that an extra tax be imposed on employers of illegal immigrants and that the proceeds of this tax go to local governments to compensate them for the extra costs of educating, medicating, and financially aiding illegal immigrants and their families. The financing would be pay-as-you-go. The tax would be collected from employers for each hour that an illegal-immigrant worker works. It would be calculated for each paycheck and the proceeds be remitted regularly to the federal government. ... While I favor deportation for illegal immigrants who commit serious crimes, I also think nothing should be done about other such immigrants living in this country. They would neither receive U.S. citizenship nor be deported. Discovery of illegal status would not in itself be grounds for deportation. That should alleviate some of the personal fears that many immigrants have in identifying themselves to the authorities."
For| Read My Position
"The idea is to use 'socialism' in health care to compete with the private sector, introduce efficiencies, and bring down costs. We need to break up the monopoly which the medical profession has established so the public has more choices. I propose that the government create or authorize two new sectors of medicine that would compete with the current practice of medicine. The federal government would initiate one; state governments another. The third sector - medicine as we presently know it - would be left unchanged under my proposal except that it would now have to compete for its business."
