Stewart Cilley'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? | ||
| No | Do you support a timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan? | ||
| I do not want the President to telegraph our timetable to the enemy. | |||
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? | ||
| No | do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? | ||
| Yes | do you support reducing Medicaid spending? | ||
| Yes | do you support reducing Medicare spending? | ||
| Yes | Is balancing the budget a legislative priority? | ||
| No | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| Yes | Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes? | ||
| Capital Punishment is the province of the various states, not the federal government. | |||
| No | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| No | Do you support providing tax incentives to businesses for the purpose of job creation? | ||
| No | Do you support spending on infrastructure projects for the purpose of job creation? | ||
| No | Do you support the temporary extension of unemployment benefits? | ||
| No | Do you support the 2010 temporary extension of tax relief? | ||
| I oppose engineering of the free market by government. | |||
| No | Do you support requiring states to implement education reforms in order to be eligible for competitive federal grants? | ||
| Education should be a local issue. The federal government has no role in education per the constitution. | |||
| Yes | Do you support reducing restrictions on offshore energy production? | ||
| Federal Government should not engineer the free market for energy. | |||
| No | Do you believe that human activity is contributing to climate change? | ||
| No | Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| The federal government must limit its role to that stated in the constitution. It must withdraw its attempts to influence the free market. | |||
| No | Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns? | ||
| The citizens will always seek to protect themselves from the intimidation and threats of government. | |||
| Yes | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act? | ||
| No | Should individuals be required to purchase health insurance, as mandated in the 2010 Affordable Care Act? | ||
| The free market will produce the most efficient environment for health care. | |||
| No | Do you support requiring illegal immigrants to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? | ||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration law by state and local police? | ||
| State law enforcement officers should be allowed to act consistently with federal law. | |||
| Yes | Do you support same-sex marriage? | ||
| Federal law is, and should be, neutral with respect to an individual's personal lifestyle. | |||
| Yes | Do you support targeting suspected terrorists outside of official theaters of conflict? | ||
| No | Should the U.S use military force in order to prevent Iran from possessing a nuclear weapon? | ||
| An policy to secure ourselves must include an intense gathering of intelligence with regard to the aggressive development and use of weapons aimed at harming us or our allies. It must be expected of any sovereign nation to develop such weapons as it deems to its benefit to protect itself. How can we call a nation sovereign if we seek to control it? It would not be sovereign. An obvious unmet expectation would result if we expect sovereign nations to behave as though marionettes on our strings. | |||
| Yes | 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.
| Eliminate | a) Agriculture | ||
| Eliminate | b) Arts | ||
| Slightly Decrease | c) Defense | ||
| Eliminate | d) Education | ||
| Eliminate | e) Environment | ||
| Eliminate | f) Homeland Security | ||
| Greatly Decrease | g) International aid | ||
| Eliminate | h) Medical Research | ||
| Eliminate | i) Scientific Research | ||
| Eliminate | j) Space exploration | ||
| Eliminate | k) United Nations | ||
| Eliminate | l) Welfare | ||
| Eliminate | m) Other or expanded categories | ||
| Eliminate | a) Capital gains taxes | ||
| Eliminate | b) Corporate taxes | ||
| Eliminate | c) Excise taxes (alcohol) | ||
| Eliminate | d) Excise taxes (cigarettes) | ||
| Maintain Status | e) Excise taxes (transportation fuel) | ||
| Eliminate | f) Income taxes (low-income families) | ||
| Eliminate | g) Income taxes (middle-income families) | ||
| Eliminate | h) Income taxes (high-income families) | ||
| Eliminate | i) Inheritance taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | j) Payroll taxes | ||
| Much of the current federal government is unconstitutional invasion of our States freedom and individuals freedom. The free market is the engine of our economy and I trust entrepreneurs to innovate and create new products and inventions for great profit by our resourceful citizens. | |||
| I favor a national sales tax on all goods and services sold at the consumer level not to exceed four percent of the sales amount in exchange for eliminating the income tax. I favor repeal of the sixteenth amendment. There is no "inheritance tax". It is the "estate tax". It should be eliminated. | |||
| Repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Eliminate unconstitutional administrative departments such as the Departments of Education, Environmental Protection, Homeland Security, Agriculture, Commerce, Interior, Food and Drug Administration, Securities and Exchange Commission and FEMA. Consolidate the branches of the military to eliminate redundancy and achieve efficiency and logistic economy. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, TSA are clear examples of missions that can be handled easily by the Army or the Navy. Our Defense and Veteran's Affairs Departments can also be merged as they are essentially performing harmonious services. We simply do not need such redundancies in our government. |
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