LPA Foundation

Issues Forum

A discussion on the political issues facing our nation. The topics discussed in the Issues Forum range from social security reform to education plans, and focus on the opinions of the presidential candidates.
Advisor Sally Pipes

Advisor Sally Pipes

The ‘Public Option’ Is Just Single-Payer on the Installment Plan

September 6, 2016

Obamacare’s government-run insurance markets are collapsing. Insurers are losing millions of dollars — and proposing double-digit premium hikes combined with high deductibles to try to stanch the bleeding. It’s no wonder that exchange enrollment is roughly half what the Congressional Budget Office predicted. So what’s the left’s answer to this government-caused debacle? More government, naturally. […]

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Presidential Issues: Trade

Trade

Mr. Trump Goes to Mexico, Promotes Big Tent Mercantilism

September 2, 2016
By K. William Watson

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump visited Mexico yesterday and met with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.  In a press briefing after the meeting, Trump spoke about immigration and trade in a much more civil tone than he typically uses on the campaign trail. Trump’s remarks about trade and NAFTA were especially interesting. NAFTA is a […]

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Advisor John Hart

Advisor John Hart

U.S. Senator Tim Scott, not Colin Kaepernick, Deserves to be Heard on Race

August 31, 2016

That San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s could capture the nation’s attention by sitting during the National Anthem to protest oppression of minorities says a lot about the state of race relations in America. Compared to Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King Jr., however, Kaepernick’s behavior is protest juvenilia — a youthful and immature outburst […]

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Presidential Issues: Immigration

Immigration

Libertarian Candidate Gary Johnson’s Proposal Would End Illegal Immigration

August 30, 2016
By David Bier

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, the former-governor of New Mexico, wrote a remarkable op-ed for CNN yesterday detailing his views on immigration reform. The piece included the following: Our politicians, both right and left, have created a system for legal immigration that simply doesn’t work. We have artificial quotas. We have “caps” on certain categories of […]

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Advisor Victor Davis Hanson

Advisor Victor Davis Hanson

Diversity: History’s Pathway to Chaos

August 26, 2016

Emphasizing diversity has been the pitfall, not the strength, of nations throughout history. The Roman Empire worked as long as Iberians, Greeks, Jews, Gauls and myriad other African, Asian and European communities spoke Latin, cherished habeas corpus and saw being Roman as preferable to identifying with their own particular tribe. By the fifth century, diversity […]

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