Dave Domina's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Dave Domina has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2014 Political Courage Test.
Nebraska Congressional Election 2014 Political Courage Test
| Pro-choice | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| Women, not the government, must make the heart wrenching abortion decision. Good, fair, objective counseling in advance is desirable. Abortions service should be safe, legal and everything should be done to reduce to a minimum the times when a person is forced to make an abortion choice. | |||
| No | In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending? | ||
| No | In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? | ||
| US debt is largely attributable to bailing out institutions ?too big to fail?. This must never happen. Federal debt should be owed to the American people and not foreigners. Federal spending must not be reduced as the first way to address debt. Tax policy is fundamentally unfair, and must be made fair. Wealthy corporations have lobbied for and obtained loopholes. They must be eliminated. International trade policy must place the United States on parity with 150 countries with a border-adjusted tax. Without it, the US pays about 17% tax on exports, and it fails to collect on imports. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| Congress must make careful "Findings" of a nexus between direct corruption and the legislated campaign finance reform steps. The Findings must satisfy the Citizens United and McCutcheon majority opinion requirements to be valid in the face of a 1st Amendment challenge. | |||
| Yes | Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes? | ||
| I support capital punishment ONLY for: 1. Murder inside a prison by an inmate already sentenced to a life term (without it, there is not sufficient alternate deterrent in more time) 2. Murder for Hire (it is an occupational hazard in these cases) 3. Treason and Sedition. | |||
| Yes | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| No | Do you support lowering taxes as a way of promoting growth in the economy? | ||
| No | Do you support providing tax incentives to businesses for the purpose of job creation? | ||
| The U S should collect its taxes honestly with minimal credits or exemptions except for children and capped home mortgage interest deductions. It should then affirmatively spend to support job creation. Tax credits do not provide sufficient accountability or a sound method to determine return on expenditures. They also are so very hard to get out of the law after their purpose has been exhausted. | |||
| Yes | Do you support requiring states to implement education reforms in order to be eligible for competitive federal grants? | ||
| Federal policy should trust teachers, allow them to teach to subject matter and not tests, and should not test for outcomes. Education grants are a risky way to distribute federal dollars. Schools and districts with the greatest needs may have the least ability to compete for, of even know of, grant availability. | |||
| No | Do you support building the Keystone XL pipeline? | ||
| Yes | Do you support reducing restrictions on offshore energy production? | ||
| Federal fossil fuel subsidies should end. There is enough profit for the industry without subsidies. Renewable energy should be the targeted energy investment area for federal spending. Future extraction processes must be safe, environmentally clean and responsible, and not harmful to the structure of the earth or its resources. | |||
| Yes | Do you believe that human activity is contributing to climate change? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| I am the lawyer who gathered landowners together, identified a legal theory, filed, handled and argued the Nebraska court case that slowed the KXL pipeline. The case was argued to the NE S Ct on 9-5-14. I think greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced at once and no more infrastructure should be built to expand exploitation of fossils to be refined to fuels. Replacement equipment would be permitted as the nation moves to energy independence. | |||
| Yes | Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns? | ||
| I support: 1. Universal background checks. 2. Closing the gun show loophole. 3. 10 round limits on magazines or clips for semi automatic weapons. | |||
| No | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act? | ||
| The law should have, and should yet, freeze policies in place, superimpose on top of frozen policies all new mandatory coverages, and allow a reasonble, perhaps 4 year period for reserves held by insurers to adjust with premiums as actuarial data about the Act's features become known. The penalty must be large enough to command attention and coerce compliance, or the penalty becomes an option to compliance. | |||
| No | Do you support requiring illegal immigrants to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? | ||
| Those who did not flee legitimate prosecution, committed no offense and tried to contribute while here as best possible without documents should be given a prompt path to accessible, affordable, achievable full naturalized citizenship within no longer than a maximum of 1 year unless extended for good cause. | |||
| Yes | Do you support same-sex marriage? | ||
| During my campaign a colleague in my office and I handled the 1st same gender marriage case to reach the Nebraska Supreme Court. Marriage should be allowed between two consenting adult persons regardless of gender or orientation. | |||
| Yes | Do you support targeting suspected terrorists outside of official theaters of conflict? | ||
| Yes | Should the U.S use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the United States from possessing a nuclear weapon? | ||
| While I answered both "Yes" both instances should be rare. U S citizens should not be killed without trial and due process. Others must be legitimate military targets. It is wise on rare occasion to eliminate risks as they begin to grow instead of facing and defeating them early. | |||
| No | Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts? | ||
| 1. Tax Fairness and elimination of loopholes. This must be accompanied by fair trade and elimination of trade deficits. 2. Reinvigoration of laws designed to protect the marketplace and foster competition, thus employment opportunities and a fair chance at a middle class, comfortable, lifestyle. This includes reinvigorating antitrust and monopoly prevention laws. 3. Campaign finance reform. | |||
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.
| Maintain Status | a) Agriculture | ||
| Greatly Decrease | b) Arts | ||
| Slightly Increase | c) Defense | ||
| Slightly Increase | d) Education | ||
| Greatly Decrease | e) Environment | ||
| Maintain Status | f) Homeland Security | ||
| Slightly Increase | g) International aid | ||
| Slightly Increase | h) Medical Research | ||
| Slightly Increase | i) Scientific Research | ||
| Greatly Decrease | j) Space exploration | ||
| Maintain Status | k) United Nations | ||
| Maintain Status | l) Welfare | ||
| Maintain Status | a) Capital gains taxes | ||
| Greatly Increase | b) Corporate taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | c) Excise taxes (alcohol) | ||
| Slightly Increase | d) Excise taxes (cigarettes) | ||
| Slightly Increase | e) Excise taxes (transportation fuel) | ||
| Slightly Decrease | f) Income taxes (low-income families) | ||
| Maintain Status | g) Income taxes (middle-income families) | ||
| Slightly Increase | h) Income taxes (high-income families) | ||
| Greatly Decrease | i) Inheritance taxes | ||
| Slightly Increase | j) Payroll taxes | ||
| Exemptions and credits too often provide political favors. Nearly all exemptions and credits should be eliminated so federal spending is more transparent and tax laws are no longer used as spending. | |||
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