Gary Johnson Persuasive Essay

This Presidential ticket is widely considered the worst in United States history. Many people are criticizing almost everything either candidate does. One one side you have a bigoted racist in Trump. On the other side, and marginally considered the better candidate of the two main parties is an untrustworthy, criminal in Clinton. What other options do you have? None, until you you look at the Libertarian candidate, Gary Johnson. I believe that, although unlikely, he has a chance to win. He would be a better president than Trump or Clinton because his stances on economics, immigration, and foreign policy make sense and would improve the U.S security and economy overall. Gary Johnson has strong economic stances on the issues facing the American economy. You can see this in this example, when asked whether Men and Women should be paid equally for the same job. He answered “No, there are too many other variables such as education, experience, and tenure that determine a fair salary” It is important to remember that he is not stating that either Men or Women should be paid less, just that they should be based on education level. Many agree with this because although many
His stance is fairly simple: ”We should appreciate and respect the diversity of immigrants that come to the United States to be productive members of society. But we also need to recognize that everyone who comes here is not so well-intentioned.” This is almost in the middle of Trump’s and Hillary’s plans. While Trump doesn't want a lot of immigrants, Hillary wants to bring in upwards of 500,000 Syrian immigrants, Gary Johnson wants us to continue bringing immigrants in from all over the world (as restricting one part of the world is unconstitutional) while not letting attackers, terrorists and others with malicious intent in. This is a fairly simple