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USA Elections

2016

Written by Davide Losa, Pier Luigi Guarniz, Tommaso Parachini and Redazione

The presidential elections in U.S.A are getting closer and the Republican Party is one of the two parties that are facing each other to win.

The most supported candidates are Donald Trump which represents the most conservative part of the republicans, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush (brother of the former president) which represent the most moderate part.

At the moment Trump is the candidate with the highest amount of supporters.

 

These candidates are basing their campaigns on points such as:

- Fight over abortion and artificial insemination

- Fight against drug market

  • Rising economical resources to DEA that has the purpose to fight the sell of drugs in America.

  • Laws to give more jail time to the drug dealers and laws to prevent the legalization of drugs like marijuana in the singles states.

- Taxes

  • Marco Rubio and Bush would like just to reduce taxes to enterprises while Trump would like to abolish them completely.

  • They all want to reduce taxes to the families

  • Trump wants also to introduce taxes of 15% at the customs.

- Education:

  • Trump wants to reduce the power of the state on education and give more power to local departments, instead Rubio and Bush want to increase it (the power of the government).

  • Donald Trump wants to decrease the taxes to who wants to study at home instead of going at school

  • Lower taxes also to private and religious schools.

- Environment: opposition to renewable energy resources and especially to the plan that Obama realized which is considered useless and too expensive

- Bush and Trump don't want to give restrictions to the possession of guns in USA while Rubio wants more controls.

- Foreign policy:

  • Abolition of the accord with Iran defining it terrible end leading to a war.

  • what concerns the war on Isis bot Bush and Rubio are positive on a war but without sending troops to Middle East and are not positive to the govern of Assad in Siria

  • Trump proposed to attack the oil wells that are the principal resource of Isi. He is also favorable to the govern of Assad.

  • About Ukraine Trump is the only one that is by the Putin's side.

- They are all against Obama Care, because they think is better to find a deal with insurance companies to let everyone to buy his own insurance

- Immigration:

  • Trump wants to build a wall to stop immigration from Mexico while the other candidates are not supporting this idea.

  • Trump wants also to stop general immigration to U.S.A. And wants also to make life harder to every business that hires immigrants but for this he is having problems with big companies like Microsoft.

- Opposition to gay marriage and to give them major rights.

 

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