Michele Bachmann announced her candidacy in the 2012 republican presidential election during the second GOP primary debate. Before the debate many saw her as a fringe candidate who was too far right to actually secure the republican nomination. However, because her performance during the debate was inspiring and showed that she was strong on the issues she is being reconsidered by some.  So is Bachmann too far to the right for republicans in the primary? Let’s look at Michele Bachmann on the issues.

Michele Bachmann announced her candidacy in the 2012 republican presidential election during the second GOP primary debate. Before the debate many saw her as a fringe candidate who was too far right to actually secure the republican nomination. However, because her performance during the debate was inspiring and showed that she was strong on the issues she is being reconsidered by some.  So is Bachmann too far to the right for republicans in the primary? Let’s look at Michele Bachmann on the issues.

As congresswomen Bachmann has led the fight in reducing taxes across the board for all Americans and even became the leader of the Tea Party Caucus with the House of Representatives. However, many of you would be surprised to know that Bachmann was once a representative of the IRS as an attorney collecting taxes for Uncle Sam. On top of that her degree was in tax law which many feel should could have used for a better cause. Her time working as the collector for the IRS was back in 1988-1993, nearly 20 years ago, and many conservative voters that don’t know about her background could forgive her for this blip in her resume.

Bachmann nowadays is called for ending taxes on capital gains which in essence is a tax on something that you own and wish to sell or give away for free. She would cut the corporate tax rate from 35% down to 9% understanding that to help businesses grow and expand they need more revenue to do so in today’s economic climate as well as realizing that the United States has the highest corporate taxes in the world. On top of that she would end the Alternative Minimum Tax which is a complicated tax code that inevitably forces citizens to pay more taxes if regular taxes don’t meet AMT requirements. What’s more she would end the death tax once and for all. She does believe that all Americans should pay a little income tax to contribute to the government, but the system has gone too far with overtaxing in general.

When asked about Medicare and Medicaid she supported the Paul Ryan plan which would restructure the programs in a manner that is not only affordable and economically stable, but also would maintain the status quo for entitlement programs and allow states more flexibility with allocating resources. Her biggest concern is Obamacare and it taking money away from seniors who are most in need of affordable services and redirecting those funds to youth. She believes Obamacare doesn’t just threaten Medicare, but it is also a massive spending plan that will add trillions of dollars to American debt. If president she would repeal Obamacare.  

She also is probably the strongest social conservative that is in the republican primary. She has been strongly Pro-Life ever since she saw the famous 1976 documentary, “How Should We Live Then?” and even stood outside abortion clinics offering counseling and prayer. She believes that abortion should be illegal and that life begins at conception until natural death for all babies. At the second debate on June 13^th 2011 when asked about abortion in the case of rape and incest she wisely pointed out that those cases makeup only a small fraction of abortions that are being performed, yet they get all the attention. She then repeated her stance saying she is 100% against abortions.

Bachmann is an advocate of teaching intelligent design in public schools and states that evolution is just one theory that hasn’t been proven. She believes that there should be alternative options to the theory of how life originally began and so introduced a bill that would include intelligent design.

The congresswoman is devotedly against the recent surge in the gay agenda and would create a federal ban on homosexual marriages. She has even suggested constitution amendments that would define marriage as between a man and a woman only and would reinstate the don’t Ask don’t tell policy of the United States military.

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