Buddy Roemer Polls and Debate - USA Presidential Election 2012

As President, Buddy Roemer would reduce the Department of Education to a "small and professional" agency that collects data and shares information on best practices.

Buddy Roemer is "founder, CEO, and President of Business First Bank, a small business community bank with approximately $650 million in assets that took no bailout money from the federal government" according to his website. He favors regulation of banking, elimination of "too big to fail," and restoration of the Glass-Steagall Act.

His website states: "A dependence on foreign oil clouds foreign policy decisions, and ending that addiction is paramount."

His website states: "As president, Buddy Roemer would focus on repatriating the production of military equipment. One-third is currently built overseas, requiring the United States to keep bases in foreign countries to protect the manufacturers or that equipment."

From his website: "Buddy Roemer would enforce immigration laws, but welcome those that are here legally and consider policies to allow illegal aliens to return to their home countries and apply for legal entry into the United States."

His website states, "Any healthcare reform package has to include tort reform, which Buddy achieved as governor of Louisiana to successfully lower healthcare costs."

His website states: "A central component of foreign aid should be the provision of knowledge, education, technical support and limited material assistance."

From his website: "Part of the plan to restore jobs in the American industrial sector is the idea that trade must be fair first, rather than free, and that in order to address America's massive trade deficit we must correct for advantages other producing nations gain by avoiding America's health, safety and environmental standards."

From his website: "Income taxes would be simplified to a flat tax, with an individual exemption of $50,000. A flat tax of 17 percent would be paid on all income beyond that. This means that individuals making $50,000 or less would pay no income tax, while those making more than $100,000 would have an effective tax rate of 8.5 percent."