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(1) Taxes: Cut corporate taxes from 35 - 25%, preserve others for the rich, and ideally have a flat or "flatter" tax system.
(2) Foreign policy: Increase defense spending, drone killings, and national security priorities. His advisors include former CIA Director General Michael Hayden, former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, former CIA counterterrorism/Blackwater executive Cofer Black, and other hawkish figures.
(3) Crime and punishment: He supports tough on crime policies, including three strikes and you're out, mandatory sentences, and the death penalty.
(4) Education: He supports privatizing public education; standardized tests that promote rote, not real learning; and empowering families to save to cover high tuition costs in place of government aid.
(5) Labor: He supports more worker rights by denying them any through unions representing their interests.
(6) Immigration: "I love immigration," he said, but favors tough border security, employment verification, stiff penalties on companies hiring undocumented workers, and denying them amnesty.
(7) Abortion: He's pro-family/pro-life, but allowed abortion under RomneyCare as Massachusetts governor.
(8) Gun control: He calls gun ownership "one of the most basic and fundamental rights of every American."
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