33 Policies Obama Should Talk About in State of the Union 2015

From Daily Signal.com (Jan. 15):

President Obama will give his annual State of the Union address on Jan. 20. Heritage experts identified 33 policies in areas ranging from the economy to religious liberty that the president should consider for his 2015 address.

• Economy
• Energy
• Foreign Policy and National Security
• Marriage and Religious Liberty
• Spending and Entitlements
• Unions

Economy

1. Advance economic freedom and opportunity for all.

2. Promote trade and prosperity.

3. Improve small and start-up businesses’ access to the capital needed to grow and create jobs.

5. Make business tax reform an explicit priority.

Energy

10. Open access to domestic and foreign markets.

11. Eliminate using taxpayer money to pick winners and losers in the energy marketplace.

12. Pull back on expensive, onerous regulations that provide little to no environmental benefit.

13. Allow all energy projects to form master limited partnerships.

Foreign Policy and National Security

16. Combat Islamist extremism and terrorism.

17. Address Russia’s imperialist ambitions.

18. Send the IMF “Reform Package” back to the IMF—not to Congress.

19. Recognize the need to fully fund America’s defenses.

Spending and Entitlements

20. Recognize that Obamacare is a policy failure.

22. Resist a gas tax increase, live within the Highway Trust Fund’s means.

23. Scrap plans for a National Infrastructure Bank.

25. Measure inflation more accurately.

Marriage and Religious Liberty

27. Address the marriage crisis.

28. Protect unborn children and women from late-term abortion.

29. End taxpayer subsidies to Obamacare plans covering elective abortion.

30. Protect religious liberty in the marriage debate.

Unions

32. Lift the union “seniority ceiling.

33. End discrimination against non-union members.

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Excellent polices to talk about. These are just a sample from the column.

Will Obama talk about any of these policies tomorrow? Probably not. He will definitely stay away from the energy and unions areas. Don’t want to talk about the national security and marriage and religious liberty. And will never say that Obamacare is a policy failure—that’s his baby.