Allen Buckley
Encyclopedia
- For the rugby league footballer of the 1960s and '70s for Great Britain, England, and Leigh, see Alan BuckleyAlan Buckley (rugby league)Alan Buckley was an English rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1950s, '60s and '70s who at club level played rugby union for Broughton Park F.C., and at representative level played rugby league for Great Britain, and England, and at club level for Swinton, playing mostly...
Allen Buckley is an attorney
Lawyer
A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...
and CPA
Certified Public Accountant
Certified Public Accountant is the statutory title of qualified accountants in the United States who have passed the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination and have met additional state education and experience requirements for certification as a CPA...
, who in 2008 ran for one of Georgia's
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
United States Senate
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
seats as a member of the Libertarian Party
Libertarian Party of Georgia
The Libertarian Party of Georgia is a state affiliate of the United States Libertarian Party.-Executive committee:-2008 candidates:In 2008 Allen Buckley ran for US Senator receiving 128,002 votes for 3.4% of the vote.-2007 candidates:...
. He was the party's candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia
Lieutenant Governor of Georgia
The Lieutenant Governor of Georgia is a constitutional officer of the state, elected to a 4-year term by popular vote. Unlike some states, the lieutenant governor is elected on a separate ticket from the state Governor....
in 2006, where he drew 3.6% of the vote, and for Senator in 2004, where he took 2% of the vote.
Buckley attended Kent State University
Kent State University
Kent State University is a public research university located in Kent, Ohio, United States. The university has eight campuses around the northeast Ohio region with the main campus in Kent being the largest...
, earning his bachelor's degree and then graduating in 1985 from the University of Georgia
University of Georgia
The University of Georgia is a public research university located in Athens, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1785, it is the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning and is one of multiple schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States...
with his JD
Juris Doctor
Juris Doctor is a professional doctorate and first professional graduate degree in law.The degree was first awarded by Harvard University in the United States in the late 19th century and was created as a modern version of the old European doctor of law degree Juris Doctor (see etymology and...
. In 1989, he earned his LLM in taxation from the University of Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
. Buckley is now an attorney and a CPA
Certified Public Accountant
Certified Public Accountant is the statutory title of qualified accountants in the United States who have passed the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination and have met additional state education and experience requirements for certification as a CPA...
in Smyrna, Georgia
Smyrna, Georgia
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 40,999 people, 18,372 households, and 9,498 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,949.9 people per square mile . There were 19,633 housing units at an average density of 1,412.6 per square mile...
, with a specialty in tax law and employee benefits.
2008 Senate campaign
Prior to the election, Buckley captured around 4% to 8% in polling within the margin or difference between the main party candidates.Buckley has launched two television ads in support of his campaign, calling the Iraq War a "fraud." In August, Chambliss invited Buckley and the Democratic candidates to participate in debates. Buckley polled 8% after appearing in the debates in September, with most of his support coming from Democrats. He has appeared in six debates.
In August, Atlanta-based radio host Neal Boortz
Neal Boortz
Neal A. Boortz, Jr. is an American Libertarian radio host, author, and political commentator. His nationally syndicated talk show, The Neal Boortz Show, airs throughout the United States on Dial Global . It is ranked seventh in overall listeners, with 4.25+ million per week...
said he might vote for Buckley over Chambliss for Chambliss's participation in the "Gang of Ten" energy compromise. Buckley and Boortz argued opposite sides in a Fair Tax debate on CNN
CNN
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, and they had previously debated on Boortz's radio show.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote that Buckley is "a viable third option. He is an intelligent, honest, and well-informed advocate of fiscal sanity—on both the spending and revenue sides—with a message of responsibility that both parties would do well to heed."
On election day Buckley's received 128,002 votes for 3.4% of the vote.
Political positions
In his 2008 campaign, Buckley suggested that the United States reinstitute immigration policies based on race. According to his campaign web site, "The U.S. has a tremendous illegal immigration problem, and the projected population growth (largely Hispanic) is huge. (The United States should) limit future immigration (and) allow for future immigration in a manner that admits people of all races on a more proportionate basis."Buckley is a fiscal conservative who has attacked incumbent Chambliss for his support of the Farm Bill
U.S. farm bill
In the United States, the farm bill is the primary agricultural and food policy tool of the federal government. The comprehensive omnibus bill is passed every 5 years or so by the United States Congress and deals with both agriculture and all other affairs under the purview of the United States...
, which provides for many subsidies to the farming industry; Chambliss has called them subsidies for the rich during a time of record farm profits. He has attacked the Fair Tax as penalizing the middle class
Middle class
The middle class is any class of people in the middle of a societal hierarchy. In Weberian socio-economic terms, the middle class is the broad group of people in contemporary society who fall socio-economically between the working class and upper class....
: "The Fair Tax proposal amounts to a vote buy. Presumably, the politicians pressing for it know that the numbers do not work.”
Buckley has said of his energy proposals: "I believe the cleaner a fuel is, the less tax it should bear and the dirtier a fuel is, the more tax it should bear. For example, the current federal excise tax is 18.4 cents per gallon of gasoline. If, in the future, one-third of our vehicles run on gasoline, one-third run on batteries and one-third run on hydrogen, and the respective 'well to wheels' CO2
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a naturally occurring chemical compound composed of two oxygen atoms covalently bonded to a single carbon atom...
output is 6, 3 and 1, then the 18.4 cent excise tax should be allocated so that gasoline bears 33.1 cents per gallon, battery-powered cars pay 16.6 cents per gallon in gasoline-equivalent terms and hydrogen vehicles pay 5.5 cents per gallon in gasoline-equivalent terms. I support similar tax changes for energy other than vehicle fuels."
To encourage the development of clean fuels, Buckley proposes "rewards (i.e. not grants) be provided for producing systems that convert the U.S. to cleaner-burning energy sources. For example, for vehicles, I recommend a $7 billion reward be granted to the first company or joint venture that produces 10 hydrogen or similarly clean-burning fueling stations and 1,000 vehicles that run on the clean-burning fuel in U.S. metropolitan areas with a population of 3 million or more."
To prevent more federal deficits, Buckley said: "I like tax cuts but only when they're matched with spending cuts, and I've proposed a 25% across-the-board cut in spending apart from Social Security
Social Security (United States)
In the United States, Social Security refers to the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program.The original Social Security Act and the current version of the Act, as amended encompass several social welfare and social insurance programs...
. If we did that right now it would balance the budget, allow the Social Security surplus to be funded, and provide for tax cuts." Buckley has also called for a referendum on whether to increase Federal Insurance Contributions Act tax
Federal Insurance Contributions Act tax
Federal Insurance Contributions Act tax is a United States payroll tax imposed by the federal government on both employees and employers to fund Social Security and Medicare —federal programs that provide benefits for retirees, the disabled, and children of deceased workers...
(FICA).
See also
- United States Senate election in Georgia, 2008United States Senate election in Georgia, 2008-Results:-Democratic:Jim Martin, a former State Representative, former State Human Resources Commissioner, Vietnam War veteran, and 2006 nominee for lieutenant governor, is challenging Chambliss for his seat. He has made his support for PeachCare and other social services a signature issue in the...
- United States Senate elections, 2008United States Senate elections, 2008Elections for the United States Senate were held on November 4, 2008, with 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested. Thirty-three seats were regular elections; the winners were eligible to serve six-year terms from January 3, 2009, to January 3, 2015, as members of Senate Class II...
- Georgia statewide elections, 2008Georgia statewide elections, 2008The Georgia statewide elections will be held on Election Day, November 4, 2008. If no candidate in a race receives a simple majority of the votes on Election Day, a run-off will be held on December 2. The primary election was held on July 15. Primary contests where no single candidate got a...
- Georgia state elections, 2006Georgia state elections, 2006-United States Congressional elections:In 2006, all thirteen of Georgia's U.S. House seats were up for election. Neither of the Peach state's U.S. Senate seats were up for election that year.-United States House of Representatives elections:...
- United States Senate election in Georgia, 2004United States Senate election in Georgia, 2004The 2004 United States Senate election in Georgia took place on November 2, 2004 alongside other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democrat U.S. Senator Zell...
- United States Senate elections, 2004United States Senate elections, 2004The United States Senate election, 2004 was an election for one-third of the seats in the United States Senate which coincided with the re-election of George W. Bush as president and the United States House election, as well as many state and local elections. Senators who were elected in 1998,...