Dr. Jo Jorgensen on the Issues
Libertarian Presidential candidate Jo Jorgensen is a Life Member of the Libertarian party who ran for South Carolina’s 4th Congressional District in 1992. She was an entrepreneur of a software sales business in 1983. In 2002, she got a PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and now works as a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Clemson University.
- Against mandates to close businesses during the pandemic
- For ending over regulation of American businesses to help small businesses
- For ending occupational licensing to create more job opportunities for Americans
- For ending government permitting and zoning requirements to create millions of jobs and reduce housing costs
- For reducing taxes and government spending
- For getting rid of the efficacy requirement of the FDA, and possibly the FDA as a whole, in order to reduce red tape around medicine and treatments in order to battle COVID-19 and prevent “bungling and worsening a situation like this” in the future.
- For replacing coal and oil burning plants with nuclear power plants and solar power by removing government barriers and streamlining NRC regulations
- Against the Green New Deal
- Opponent of the War on Drugs
- For ending the supply of military equipment and resources to police forces at all levels of government
- For ending federal civil asset forfeiture
- For ending qualified immunity
- For ending no knock raids
- For providing assistance to people dealing with drug addiction
- Supports Roe v Wade and a woman’s right to choose
- Supports the legalization of same sex marriage and equal adoption rights for gay couples