Joe Biden wants to spend $532 billion more, increasing spending on things like education, climate change, and health care. By contrast, Jorgensen says government should do less and spend less. She’s right. The founders’ insistence on limited government is what made America prosperous. Jorgensen noticed how our big and cumbersome government slowed our response to the coronavirus.
Trump supported the latest multitrillion-dollar stimulus bill saying, it “will deliver urgently needed relief to our nation’s families and workers.” Biden called for another stimulus – “a hell of a lot bigger.” Jorgensen wouldn’t sign either bill. “Let the people keep their money,” she says. “Let them decide who should stay in business and who shouldn’t.” She points out that government is not as good as individuals at deciding where money should go. “Government money usually goes to their friends and special interests and lobbyists.”
She correctly points out that government “is too big, too bossy, too nosy, and way too intrusive.”
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“We had about 60 American companies making testing kits and the [Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”)] only approved two,” she said in the final Libertarian Party debate. “What the president should have done was use the Emergency Powers Act and say, ‘FDA, you only have to prove safety, not efficacy. Get these kits out there.’” If some tests don’t work, the free market will weed that out, says Jorgensen. “If you are a large drug company, you don’t want to put out a drug or testing kit that doesn’t work – you’ll go bankrupt.”
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