TO THE EDITOR:
I, along with many other students, was incredibly disappointed in the DTH’s failure to include Barbara Howe, Libertarian candidate for governor, in your recent voters’ guide.
In our current political climate, it is imperative that all viewpoints and candidates be given wide exposure. With the large readership of the DTH, you have the responsibility to include all candidates to broaden the education of voters within our campus.
I’ll provide you with some of Howe’s views on the issues to make up for the absence in the voters’ guide.
For education, Howe wishes to implement a tuition tax credit scholarship program to give parents more options for their children outside of public schools.
In terms of job creation, she understands that government does not create jobs; thus, she wishes to reduce burdensome regulations, taxes and licensing requirements.
She also wishes to end corporate welfare in North Carolina to help small businesses compete with larger corporations. Howe will end the use of capital punishment in this state, as well as work towards repealing Amendment One.
To best sum up Howe’s vision for North Carolina, I’ll end with a quote from her website: “As a Libertarian, I hold one core philosophy. You should be free to live your life as you see fit as long as you do not harm another individual.”
Thomas Kennedy ’16
Mathematical decision sciences
