Jackie Conaway's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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California Congressional Election 2012 Political Courage Test
| No | Do you support United States' combat operations in Afghanistan? | ||
| Yes | Do you support a timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan? | ||
| No is the answer as to "Do you support United States' combat operations in Afghanistan". Operations need to be more selective. We need to not occupy a nation, but target the terrorist training and support organization. The time table needs to be indexed to goals and successful achievement of those goals. | |||
Indicate which proposals you support (if any) for balancing the federal budget.In order to balance the budget,
| Yes | do you support reducing defense spending? | ||
| Yes | do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? | ||
| No | do you support reducing Medicaid spending? | ||
| No | do you support reducing Medicare spending? | ||
| Yes | Is balancing the budget a legislative priority? | ||
| (1) Defense money going to the F-22 seems a waste of money based on recent information; building more B-2's when the Air Force did not see the need for same, was wasteful; we need to quit paying a premium to private contractors for work that can be done by uniformed personnel; (2) we need to roll taxes back to what they were, for the wealthy when Bush, Jr. first took office; (3) balancing the budget is important, but not at the expense of funding commitments to seniors, retirees and vets; | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| Citizens United enabled foreign powers to control our ballot box. | |||
| Yes | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| Yes | Do you support providing tax incentives to businesses for the purpose of job creation? | ||
| Yes | Do you support spending on infrastructure projects for the purpose of job creation? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the temporary extension of unemployment benefits? | ||
| No | Do you support the 2010 temporary extension of tax relief? | ||
| Not for the wealthy upper 1% | |||
| Do you support requiring states to implement education reforms in order to be eligible for competitive federal grants? | |||
| No | Do you support reducing restrictions on offshore energy production? | ||
| We have enough land based oil; quit shipping all the North Slope oil to Asia and development of Bakken Oil field (North Dakoa) will be enough oil (and jobs) for decades to come | |||
| Yes | Do you believe that human activity is contributing to climate change? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| No | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act? | ||
| Yes | Should individuals be required to purchase health insurance, as mandated in the 2010 Affordable Care Act? | ||
| Provided affordable plans are available for--they clearly are not. Additionally, there are waivers that can be applied for that everyone seems to ignore. | |||
| No | Do you support requiring illegal immigrants to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? | ||
| Do you support allowing illegal immigrants, who were brought to the United States as minors, to pursue citizenship without returning to their country of origin? | |||
| No | Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration law by state and local police? | ||
| A pathway to apply needs to clearly be set out and enforced, although generally no to state enforcement, unless the people have committed a crime or are a threat to public safety. Its a federal role set out in the Constitution (re immigration laws). | |||
| Yes | Do you support same-sex marriage? | ||
| Not personally support, but I do support the right of people to formalize the relationships they are in, but not to coerce religious leaders to conducted marriage ceremonies contrary to their faith and beliefs. | |||
| Yes | Do you support targeting suspected terrorists outside of official theaters of conflict? | ||
| Should the U.S use military force in order to prevent Iran from possessing a nuclear weapon? | |||
| I support identifying threats to the US and dealing with them; as for force against Iran, we need to control the borders (and anything shipped in or out) if negotiations and inspections don't succeed. | |||
| No | Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts? | ||
SpendingIndicate what federal spending levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one number per category; you can use a number more than once.TaxesIndicate what federal tax levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one number per category; you can use a number more than once.
| Slightly Increase | a) Agriculture | ||
| b) Arts | |||
| Maintain Status | c) Defense | ||
| d) Education | |||
| e) Environment | |||
| Maintain Status | f) Homeland Security | ||
| Greatly Decrease | g) International aid | ||
| h) Medical Research | |||
| i) Scientific Research | |||
| Slightly Decrease | j) Space exploration | ||
| Slightly Decrease | k) United Nations | ||
| Maintain Status | l) Welfare | ||
| Slightly Increase | a) Capital gains taxes | ||
| Slightly Increase | b) Corporate taxes | ||
| c) Excise taxes (alcohol) | |||
| d) Excise taxes (cigarettes) | |||
| e) Excise taxes (transportation fuel) | |||
| f) Income taxes (low-income families) | |||
| g) Income taxes (middle-income families) | |||
| Slightly Increase | h) Income taxes (high-income families) | ||
| i) Inheritance taxes | |||
| j) Payroll taxes | |||
| k) Other or expanded categories | |||
| Defense waste needs to be identified; money could be used in other needed and underfunded defense programs, so no net decrease; medical and scientific research needs to be better defined | |||
| 1)Get the government out of our bedrooms, doctor's offices and relationship--no significant funding involved--its a civil rights issue;2) equal pay for equal work--its a civil rights issue; 3)require American military contractors to base their operations in the US and pay taxes |
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