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1992 New Hampshire Presidential Primary
John Merwin (R)
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MERWIN FOR
PRESIDENT
New Hampshire Republican Primary
February 18, 1992
1-603-823-5217
MERWIN FOR PRESIDENT
Platform
"It costs more to keep a person in jail than to send that person to Yale!" ... John Merwin
1. Control Runaway Debt.
First commitment is to restoration of fiscal integrity, fight for a balanced budget, control of wasteful programs and reduction of the national debt.
2. Revive the Economy.
Develop programs designed to jump start the economy and get it rolling so as to create more jobs and prevent the collapse of large additional numbers of small businesses.
3. Line Item Veto.
Use all possible persuasion to gain for the presidency, the line item veto of appropriation bills as an essential step toward eliminating unnecessary government waste.
4. Health Care Program.
Work toward the development of a national health care program which will guarantee adequate, humane medical services to all citizens. Meanwhile, hospital and medical costs must, by all legal means available, be brought under control.
5. Revise Income Tax Laws.
Abolish the present disincentive federal income tax law of 1986 and restore the growth enhancing tax formulas which served the country so well for over 30 years prior to 1986. This program would include the restoration of Investment Tax Credits, a capital gains tax and a graduated income tax which would, for the most part impact personal incomes in excess of $250,000 and reduce the tax burden on middle income working families and the poor.
6. Restore Compassion to Government.
Endeavor by all reasonable means to eliminate the sinister atmosphere of unbridled greed, unconscionable waste, selfishness and utter disdain for the welfare of the taxpayers of the country that permeates the nation's capital. In its place strive to substitute the concepts of compassion and promotion of the public good as the paramount motivation of those in government service.
7. Control and Reduce Foreign Aid.
Careful scrutinize all foreign aid proposals to ensure that only those which truly serve the best interests of the U.S. taxpayers will be approved or continued.
8. Reduce Military Commitments Abroad.
Institute an in depth review of the role of the United States as policeman to the entire world with a view to reducing to an absolute minimum the number of defense personnel and their dependents stationed in foreign countries around the globe. The billions of dollars saved should be used to begin solving our many domestic problems and, wherever possible, reduce the national debt.
9. Crime and its Punishments.
Initiate a study and seek the revision of our archaic Anglo-saxon criminal law system in order to adapt the criminal laws of the country to the realities of a multi-ethnic society. This should ultimately reduce the criminal law work load of our heavily overburdened court system and substantially decrease our huge prison population of which more that 80% comprise minority inmates. No other developed country on earth incarcerates as large a percentage of its population as the United States. This is unacceptable and is wantonly wasteful; it costs more to keep a person in jail than to send that person to Yale!
10. Improve the Educational System.
Encourage the improvement of the public education system by increasing the incentives for recruiting and training highly qualified teachers, and employing wherever possible, modern communication technology for enhancing the quality of instruction in the schools.
11. Revamp Farm Support Policies
Restudy and wherever possible seek the reduction of the present immense and obscene farm subsidies to mega-millionaire farmers. Develop a better answer to the alleviation of poverty and hunger in the country than that presently provided by the wasteful and woefully mismanaged food stamp program.
12. The Drug Use Problem.
Seek realistic and humane solutions—with primary emphasis on education and rehabilitation programs—to the insidious drug problem which plaques the nation and which is at the root of so much unnecessary human misery, crime and the spread of the deadly AIDS virus.
From: New Hampshire For: New Hampshire For: America
Dear People of New Hampshire:
My deep concern over the current business recession and its devastating effect on small businesses and the large unemployment problems of the State of New Hampshire—my adopted and much beloved home state for the past 20 years—has convinced me of my obligation to speak out against the many unfortunate ills and problems of these troubled times and, as a life-long Republican, to enter the 1992 race for President of the United States of America.
Biographical Sketch
John Merwin by: Helen Hampton
John David Merwin retired in 1984 after a varied career in law, banking, business, military and government service. Before graduating from Yale University he studied at universities in Switzerland and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. After military service in Europe during world War II, where he earned citations from the U.S. Army and the award of the French Croix de Guerre, Mr. Merwin completed the study of law—with the benefit of the GI Bill of Rights—at the National Law center, George Washington University in Washington D.C.
Volunteering for further military service at the outset of the Korean War he served as a Captain of Artillery in the Far East for two years before returning to enter the practice of law. After twice being elected as a Senator to the Legislature of the United States Virgin Islands, he accepted appointment by President Eisenhower and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Governer of the United States Virgin Islands from 1958 to 1961. He then spent five years in international banking before returning to the practice of law in 1967.
Mr. Merwin has travelled extensively abroad in Europe and the Far East, is fluent in both French and Spanish as well as being familiar with several other foreign languages.
New Hampshire Republican Primary
February 18, 1992
1-603-823-5217
MERWIN FOR PRESIDENT
Platform
"It costs more to keep a person in jail than to send that person to Yale!" ... John Merwin
1. Control Runaway Debt.
First commitment is to restoration of fiscal integrity, fight for a balanced budget, control of wasteful programs and reduction of the national debt.
2. Revive the Economy.
Develop programs designed to jump start the economy and get it rolling so as to create more jobs and prevent the collapse of large additional numbers of small businesses.
3. Line Item Veto.
Use all possible persuasion to gain for the presidency, the line item veto of appropriation bills as an essential step toward eliminating unnecessary government waste.
4. Health Care Program.
Work toward the development of a national health care program which will guarantee adequate, humane medical services to all citizens. Meanwhile, hospital and medical costs must, by all legal means available, be brought under control.
5. Revise Income Tax Laws.
Abolish the present disincentive federal income tax law of 1986 and restore the growth enhancing tax formulas which served the country so well for over 30 years prior to 1986. This program would include the restoration of Investment Tax Credits, a capital gains tax and a graduated income tax which would, for the most part impact personal incomes in excess of $250,000 and reduce the tax burden on middle income working families and the poor.
6. Restore Compassion to Government.
Endeavor by all reasonable means to eliminate the sinister atmosphere of unbridled greed, unconscionable waste, selfishness and utter disdain for the welfare of the taxpayers of the country that permeates the nation's capital. In its place strive to substitute the concepts of compassion and promotion of the public good as the paramount motivation of those in government service.
7. Control and Reduce Foreign Aid.
Careful scrutinize all foreign aid proposals to ensure that only those which truly serve the best interests of the U.S. taxpayers will be approved or continued.
8. Reduce Military Commitments Abroad.
Institute an in depth review of the role of the United States as policeman to the entire world with a view to reducing to an absolute minimum the number of defense personnel and their dependents stationed in foreign countries around the globe. The billions of dollars saved should be used to begin solving our many domestic problems and, wherever possible, reduce the national debt.
9. Crime and its Punishments.
Initiate a study and seek the revision of our archaic Anglo-saxon criminal law system in order to adapt the criminal laws of the country to the realities of a multi-ethnic society. This should ultimately reduce the criminal law work load of our heavily overburdened court system and substantially decrease our huge prison population of which more that 80% comprise minority inmates. No other developed country on earth incarcerates as large a percentage of its population as the United States. This is unacceptable and is wantonly wasteful; it costs more to keep a person in jail than to send that person to Yale!
10. Improve the Educational System.
Encourage the improvement of the public education system by increasing the incentives for recruiting and training highly qualified teachers, and employing wherever possible, modern communication technology for enhancing the quality of instruction in the schools.
11. Revamp Farm Support Policies
Restudy and wherever possible seek the reduction of the present immense and obscene farm subsidies to mega-millionaire farmers. Develop a better answer to the alleviation of poverty and hunger in the country than that presently provided by the wasteful and woefully mismanaged food stamp program.
12. The Drug Use Problem.
Seek realistic and humane solutions—with primary emphasis on education and rehabilitation programs—to the insidious drug problem which plaques the nation and which is at the root of so much unnecessary human misery, crime and the spread of the deadly AIDS virus.
From: New Hampshire For: New Hampshire For: America
Dear People of New Hampshire:
My deep concern over the current business recession and its devastating effect on small businesses and the large unemployment problems of the State of New Hampshire—my adopted and much beloved home state for the past 20 years—has convinced me of my obligation to speak out against the many unfortunate ills and problems of these troubled times and, as a life-long Republican, to enter the 1992 race for President of the United States of America.
Biographical Sketch
John Merwin by: Helen Hampton
John David Merwin retired in 1984 after a varied career in law, banking, business, military and government service. Before graduating from Yale University he studied at universities in Switzerland and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. After military service in Europe during world War II, where he earned citations from the U.S. Army and the award of the French Croix de Guerre, Mr. Merwin completed the study of law—with the benefit of the GI Bill of Rights—at the National Law center, George Washington University in Washington D.C.
Volunteering for further military service at the outset of the Korean War he served as a Captain of Artillery in the Far East for two years before returning to enter the practice of law. After twice being elected as a Senator to the Legislature of the United States Virgin Islands, he accepted appointment by President Eisenhower and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Governer of the United States Virgin Islands from 1958 to 1961. He then spent five years in international banking before returning to the practice of law in 1967.
Mr. Merwin has travelled extensively abroad in Europe and the Far East, is fluent in both French and Spanish as well as being familiar with several other foreign languages.
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