Bruce Brown's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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California Congressional Election 2010 Political Courage Test
| Pro-life | a) Do you consider yourself pro-choice or pro-life? | ||
| Yes | b) Should abortion be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy? | ||
| Yes | c) Should abortion be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape? | ||
| Yes | d) Should abortion be legal when the life of the woman is endangered? | ||
| Yes | e) Should federal subsidies be prohibited from being used for abortion procedures? | ||
| More than anything, America needs to put this issue to bed. The fact that we have been fighting it for 50 years proves why we make law in the legislature and amend the Constitution with the amendment process - Roe vs Wade was a massive screw up. That said, a society must be pro-life to thrive and we manage the exceptions from there. The use of this issue by the left to take political ground rather than make a thriving, society is a great modern tradegy but when the Supreme Court blows a decision this badly, that is what happens. | |||
1) SpendingIndicate what federal funding levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one number per category- you can use a number more than once.2) 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.
| Maintain Status | a) Agriculture | ||
| Eliminate | b) Arts | ||
| Greatly Increase | c) Defense | ||
| Greatly Increase | 1) Intelligence operations | ||
| Greatly Increase | 2) Military hardware | ||
| Greatly Increase | 3) National missile defense | ||
| Maintain Status | 4) Salary and benefits for active duty personnel | ||
| Greatly Increase | 5) Programs to improve troop retention rates | ||
| Greatly Increase | 6) Research and development of new weapons | ||
| Eliminate | d) Education | ||
| Greatly Decrease | e) Environment | ||
| Greatly Decrease | f) Homeland security | ||
| Greatly Decrease | g) International aid | ||
| Eliminate | h) Medical research | ||
| Eliminate | i) Scientific research | ||
| Greatly Increase | j) Space exploration | ||
| Eliminate | k) United Nations | ||
| Eliminate | l) Welfare | ||
| Maintain Status | a) Alcohol taxes | ||
| Eliminate | b) Capital gains taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | c) Cigarette taxes | ||
| Greatly Decrease | d) Corporate taxes | ||
| Greatly Decrease | e) Gasoline taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | f) Income taxes (low-income families) | ||
| Maintain Status | g) Income taxes (middle-income families) | ||
| Maintain Status | h) Income taxes (high-income families) | ||
| Yes | 3) Do you support the elimination of the federal estate tax? | ||
| Yes | 4) Do you support requiring the federal budget to be balanced each year? | ||
| No | 5) Do you support using government funds in an effort to stimulate and improve the economy? | ||
| This questionaire applys to the Federal government which has no business in welfare and education - I am not against either at the state level. Federal spending must have a purpose that no other entity can manage, like defense, space or infectious desease. Otherwise, the government will ALWAYS be the dumbest player in the mix. Ethanol was a waste. Federal Government is investing in yesterday's solar, it just doesnt have the talent to match the private sector. Federal Government spendiing feels good but it is not right | |||
| Until we gut the size of the Federal government, it is silly to discuss tax policy. Slash and burn the Federal budget first. | |||
| Slash the federal government and slash some more. The Federal government is like walking around all day with a 100# backpack on - it is dead weight. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support privatizing elements of Social Security? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support reducing government regulations on the private sector? | ||
| No | c) Do you support increasing the federal minimum wage? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support the ability of workers to unionize? | ||
| No | e) Do you support federal funding for job-training programs that retrain displaced workers? | ||
| f) Other or expanded principles | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support increasing the amount individuals are permitted to contribute to federal campaigns? | ||
| No | b) Should Congress regulate indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support removing all contribution limits on federal campaigns? | ||
| No | d) Should candidates for federal office be encouraged to meet voluntary spending limits? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support giving the President the power of the line item veto for items concerning appropriations? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support limiting the President's ability to define how legislation is applied through the use of signing statements? | ||
| Money is speech, end of discussion. Disclosure and voters are the only control. The people need to get more involved in watching their government - it is their job. The answer is not more laws. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support programs that provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related training and job-placement assistance when released? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support programs that provide prison inmates with substance abuse treatment? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support reduced prison sentences for non-violent offenders? | ||
| No | e) Do you support mandatory prison sentences for selling illegal drugs? | ||
| Self improvement programs in prison need to be implemented as much as possible with volunteer inmate labor and management - I am not in favor of "spending programs" justified in the name "public benefit." We have a lot of people with nothing but time on their hands, use them. | |||
| No | a) Do you support federal education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students? | ||
| No | b) Do you support federal funding for universal pre-K programs? | ||
| No | c) Do you support federal funding for charter schools? | ||
| No | d) Do you support federal funding for K-12 school vouchers? | ||
| No | e) Do you support the federal government providing college students with financial aid? | ||
| EDUCATION IS A COVENENT BETWEEN PARENT, STUDENT AND TEACHER - THERE IS NOTHING, REPEAT, NOTHING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CAN ADD TO ADVANCE EDUCATION. DID I SAY NOTHING? THATS RIGHT - NOTHING! | |||
| No | a) Do you support enacting environmental regulations aimed at reducing the effects of climate change? | ||
| No | b) Do you support international emissions targets aimed at reducing the effects of climate change? | ||
| No | c) Do you support allowing energy producers to trade carbon credits under a "cap and trade" system? | ||
| No | d) Do you support strengthening fuel efficiency standards on all gasoline and diesel-powered engines, including cars, trucks, and sport utility vehicles? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support domestic oil exploration in federally-protected areas? | ||
| No | f) Do you support federal funding for the development of alternative energy? | ||
| Yes | g) Do you support the development of nuclear reactors? | ||
| I distinguish between pollution and environmental hocus pocus. Clean air and clean water are essentional to our well being. Beyong that, with China putting a coal plant a week on line, it is just plain dumb to think the USA can solve the world's problem within our borders. Politics destroys the credibility of environmental issues like global climate change. | |||
| No | a) Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you believe that the Second Amendment guarantees the right of individual citizens to own guns? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support allowing individuals to carry concealed guns? | ||
| No | d) Do you support a ban on assault rifles? | ||
| Guns are another "feel good" issue for those who oppose them, but the data is counter intuitive - DC has the tightest restrictions and the worst outcome - that is reality. | |||
| No | a) Do you support a publicly-administered health insurance option? | ||
| No | b) Do you support expanding access to health care through commercial health insurance reform? | ||
| Yes | c) Should the federal government expand eligibility for tax-free medical savings accounts? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support monetary limits on damages that can be collected in malpractice lawsuits? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support relaxing regulations on the importation of prescription drugs? | ||
| f) Other or expanded principles | |||
| No | a) Do you support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants? | ||
| No | b) Do you support decreasing the number of legal immigrants allowed into the country? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support establishing English as the official national language? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration laws by state and local police? | ||
| The only issue with illegal immigration is that the Democratic Party needs 12 million votes from somewhere to stay in existance and are willing to exploit people to the extreme and destroy this country to get them. This is dispicable. | |||
| No | a) Do you support United States military action in Afghanistan? | ||
| No | b) Do you support increasing military assistance for Afghanistan? | ||
| No | c) Do you support increasing economic development assistance for Afghanistan? | ||
| Yes | d) Should the United States continue to strike suspected terrorist targets in Pakistan? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support granting aid to countries when it is in the security interests of the United States? | ||
| Yes | f) Should the United States support the creation of a Palestinian state? | ||
| Yes | g) Do you support increasing sanctions on Iran if it continues to defy United Nations mandates? | ||
| No | h) Do you support the withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq? | ||
| Yes | i) Do you support the United States' involvement in free trade agreements? | ||
| Once again, national security has been politicised and when that happens, nothing goes well and that is what we are experiencing today. Afghanistan does not exist as a country as we know it, they have one source of income - heroin and it is a giant wasteland. Kill the bad guys and keep doing it until they are gone. | |||
| No | a) Should marriage only be between one man and one woman? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support allowing openly-gay men and women to serve in the United States military? | ||
| No | c) Do you support federal funding for embryonic stem cell research? | ||
| Yes | d) Should the federal government end affirmative action programs? | ||
| First of all, no one has a "civil right" to obtain a marriage license. second, No fault divorce ended any pretense that marriage is sacred. The government has an interest in promoting families and that should be the issue because families provide moral and religious training, take care of the elderly and the general welfare of its members. Government has no vested interest in two people uniting in a relationship unto itself - none. Our focus has to be on creating families, not couples. That said, churches must be allowed to set their own standards for sanctified marriage without restriction. | |||
| 1. Implement GAAP accounting procedures and statements for government. All business people understand this and public companies are required by law to do it for a reason - because it works. 2. Implement dynamic economic modeling for predicting revenue and make it non-partisan. Someone should be in jail for not knowing the impact of tax rate on government revenue in 2010. 3. Kill department of education 4. mandate that the department of energy drive down energy cost to lowest weighted cost possible - drill baby drill! Taxes, interest and energy touch everyone - we need cheap energy! |
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