For my many friends who have seriously considered Gary Johnson as an alternative to Bernie Sanders, please go beyond his flashy ad campaign and look at his actual position, and *the Libertarian Party's* positions, on the issues that are important to you.

Here are some of the highlights:

He wants to eliminate all income tax and turn it into a flat consumption tax which would massively shift tax burdens downwards to the middle class and poor. Consumption and sales taxes are *always* regressive because the wealthy only spend about 20% of their earnings back into the economy on things this tax would apply to.

Even if he doesn't get his consumption tax, he plans to elminate all tax credits - including earned income tax credits and educational tax credits that the middle class desperately need. Have kids? Have kids going to college? Have student loans? All your credits for those things will vanish if he is elected.

He wants to eliminate ALL business tax. Do you honestly think that Walmart, McDonalds, Exxon Mobile, Target, Haliburton, The Auto industry, Monsanto, etc. should be contributing absolutely nothing to the tax revenue in this country?

He wants to effectively elminate net neutrality so that internet companies can control the content you see and make you pay extra money on top of your sub fees to stream content like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime.

He wants to completely eliminate the Department of Education that provides funding for early childhood education, people with disabilities, free and reduced lunch programs for the poor, and more.

He claims he loves the environment and wants to protect it. Yet, he has no energy plan. His solution is to cut all subsisdies to green energy alternatives and "let the market decide" (IE let the coal and oil industries decide to simply become ecologically friendly on their own). He claims any time the government gets involved in this it "destroys innovation." The government has *always* been involved in energy policy. Not one thing in the energy industry, including gas and coal, was done with private money alone. This position is completely disconnected from reality. Energy facilities and electrical lines and all other energy infrastructure is the textbook definition of a natural monopoly which creates massive market distortions if left to its own devices.

He wants to completely rewrite the Environmental Safety Act to limit the federal restrictions and leave it up to the states (which means there will be none in any Republican led state in the country). No federal protections for species at risk. He says he likes clean air and water but then has no proposals for what he would do about it.

The Libertarian Party he represents also wants to eliminate the National and State Parks and sell them to private companies so they can support them using "ecologically sound" resource extraction. In short, they want to allow fracking at places like Yellowstone and other national nature preserves.

He touts his job creation record as being "the best" and that he balanced New Mexico's budget. But he forgets to mention that he was only in office from 1995 to 2003. Great. He governed during the dot com bubble and left before the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and now he gets to say he created more jobs than a bunch of governors who were in office through the largest recession this country has ever seen. *slow clap*

Sometimes people aren't part of the "establishment" because their ideas are horrible. If you are an "anti-establishment" voter, I urge you to vote on issues and policies, NOT party affiliation, including for the Democratic and Republican nominees.

Check it out (read past the flashy single sentence slogans to his actual policies): https://www.johnsonweld.com/issues