Casey McMahon is a Hollywood star who became politically active while campaigning for Ronald Reagan when he ran for president. McMahon then decided to run for the Senate and served three terms as a U.S. senator from California. McMahon has been married twice and has no children.
McMahon feels that the best way to prevent crime in America is to keep criminals off the streets. Thus McMahon supports expanding mandatory minimum-sentencing laws and supports the death penalty as currently used. McMahon also feels that it is important for law-abiding Americans to be able to protect themselves and their families and wants to see all bans on an individual's right to own firearms removed.
Instead of preventing law-abiding citizens from owning firearms, McMahon wants the government to step up its efforts to seize illegal firearms to prevent them from being used in criminal activities. McMahon feels that it is not the government's responsibility to protect the environment and wants to see current environmental restrictions on businesses rolled back. Instead of imposing legal restrictions, the government should offer businesses tax incentives for voluntary compliance. Global warming is definitely a problem, but McMahon feels that its threat is exaggerated by alarmists who want the government to prevent manufacturing and energy companies from being successful.
Around the globe, the United States needs to act to promote its national interests, ideally using diplomacy and multinational actions, but should act alone if necessary. Freedom and democracy are basic human rights, and the United States should fight for them wherever there is a need.
The current publicly subsidized health insurance plans, Medicare and Medicaid, must be maintained to prevent a health care crisis in the United States. But McMahon wants the government to allow private companies to administer parts or all of the plans in order to make them more cost efficient. McMahon also opposes allowing Medicaid to cover any part of the cost of an abortion.
McMahon opposes having the federal government provide social services. Instead, federal funds should be distributed to states based on their poverty rates. States should then be responsible for administering any social service programs appropriate for their population. This will allow states to focus on the issues most important to their citizens. McMahon also supports a federal law requiring all states to fund full-day kindergarten in districts with a child poverty rate above 20 percent.
Illegal immigration is a serious problem. McMahon believes that the way to solve the problem is to strengthen security at U.S. borders and enact much stricter punishments for people who enter this country illegally. McMahon proposes adding 20,000 troops to guard the borders. Because deporting undocumented immigrants often does not deter them from reentering the country, and because putting them in jail actually punishes U.S. taxpayers, McMahon thinks that the business owners who hire undocumented immigrants should be punished with fines and jail time. When business owners stop hiring undocumented immigrants, people will stop coming to this country illegally
To sum everything up, here's a list of policies endorsed by McMahon:
Foreign Policy
We need to promote our national interests abroad. The United States shouldCrime and Punishment
The best way to prevent crime is to keep criminals off the streets. The United States should:Environment
It is not the government's responsibility to protect the environment. The United States should:Social Services for the Poor
We need to remove the federal government from the business of providing social services. The United States should: