Political Positions
Kubby strongly supports the United States Constitution and civil liberties. He supports legal abortion, gay rights, gun rights, a non-interventionist foreign policy, immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from the war in Iraq, open borders, and the elimination of federal individual income tax. He opposes most governmental regulations, programs, and federal subsidies. He also opposes the War on drugs, Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act.
During a 2009 interview with a New Jersey newspaper, he criticized the health care plan presented by President Barack Obama, saying: “Obama is ready to spend trillions of dollars to create a government health program. I have a far simpler plan that will genuinely help patients and save them and the government all those trillions of dollars: reschedule marijuana to reflect reality and authorize its use for medical purposes.”
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