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Gary Johnson presidential campaign, 2016/Labor and employment
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Read what Gary Johnson and the 2016 Libertarian Party Platform said about labor and employment below.
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Johnson on labor and employment
- In an interview with New York Magazine published on June 14, 2016, Gary Johnson offered this pitch to a Trump supporter who lost his job to a dying industry: “Look, I’d tell you what I’ve done, what I did in New Mexico, where I don’t think I ever compromised my Libertarian views. I’d tell you how I will apply these same ideas to the country: the basic platform of fiscal conservatism and social liberalism.” When pressed to explain how he would convince a voter to support him, Johnson said, “Convinced? I don’t know about that. I’d tell him what I had to say, let him think it over. If he still thought he’d vote for Trump, he should vote for Trump. I’m not going to try to convince anyone how they should vote.”[2]
- In an interview with The Daily Caller in February 2015, Johnson expressed support for right-to-work laws. In his experience running a construction company, Johnson said that he found union workers were some of the best and worst employees. "I had to fire or get rid of the worst and I was able to reward the best. If I was a union shop I would have had to except [sic] both as equals and that’s not real, that’s not the real world. I want to be able to reward the best and I want to be able to get rid of the worst," he continued. Johnson also said he believed that unions contributed to increased government spending because of their prevalence in the public sector.[3]
- In a February 2012 op-ed for The Washington Times, Johnson criticized the government for impeding employment opportunities. He said, "When I was governor of New Mexico, I had the highest job growth of any of the 50 governors. But I didn’t create a single job - businesses did. I just got government out of their way."[4]
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- ↑ Reason.com, "Gary Johnson To Announce He's Running for President Today," January 6, 2016
- ↑ New York Magazine, "Gary Johnson Takes His #NeverTrump Pitch to Times Square," June 14, 2016
- ↑ The Daily Caller, "Gary Johnson Takes On Forced Unionization," February 28, 2015
- ↑ The Washington Times, "Johnson: Let's get America moving again," February 2, 2012
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Libertarian Party, "The 2016 Libertarian Party Platform," accessed August 24, 2016
