Kevin Craig's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Kevin Craig has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2022 Political Courage Test.
Missouri Congressional Election 2022 Political Courage Test
| Pro-life | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| How healthy can a nation be if 3,000 mothers kill their own babies every day? Abortion is murder, but I oppose capital punishment for mothers. Abortionists should lose their license. As a Libertarian I don't seek to make abortion illegal. As a Christian, I seek to make abortion unthinkable. | |||
| No | Do you support expanding federal funding to support social safety net programs such as Social Security and Medicare? | ||
| Social Security is an unethical ponzi scheme. Any corporation that ran its company retirement plan the same way the government runs Social Security would see its management in prison. Medicare has set in motion dramatic cost increases in healthcare. The Libertarian Party believes in the separation of Retirement and State and the separation of Medicine and State. | |||
| No | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations,unions, and individuals? | ||
| Nothing in the Constitution gives the federal government power to interfere with private expenditures in elections. | |||
| No | Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct? | ||
| No | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| During my lifetime, Washington D.C. has killed, crippled, or made homeless tens of millions of innocent, non-combatant non-white civilians who were not in any way a threat to my liberty or security. The military-industrial complex is a vast government welfare scheme for big corporations that manufacture weapons of mass destruction and create widows and orphans. http://KevinCraig.us/peace.htm http://KevinCraig.us/imperialism.htm | |||
| No | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| No | Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19? | ||
| No | Do you support the federal government taking action, beyond those of the Federal Reserve, to alleviate inflation? | ||
| We can end inflation tomorrow by abolishing the Federal Reserve, which prints up trillions of dollars and causes all our money and savings to be worth less. The Federal Reserve is completely unethical and contrary to the monetary requirements explicitly spelled out in the Constitution. It's a tremendous mistake to look to government for relief from COVID-19 when the government created COVID-19, needlessly killed hundreds of thousands of people, and destroyed millions of businesses without justification. | |||
| No | Do you support the forgiveness of federal student loan debt? | ||
| Almost without exception, students who enrolled in a 4-year college made a big mistake. The university-industrial complex does not create students who make the world a better place. Students should learn at an early age that "the borrower is the slave of the lender" (Proverbs 22:7). Better late than never. If the government printed student loans out of thin air, or stole it out of other people's paychecks, the universities that received the loans should refund the money to the U.S. Treasury. | |||
| Yes | Do you support requiring a government-issued identification in order to vote at the polls? | ||
| Democrats seem to believe that blacks are ignorant savages who live in a primitive urban jungle without I.D. cards, and wouldn't know how to get one if they needed one. | |||
| No | Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)? | ||
| No | Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| Plants love "greenhouse" gases like CO2, and a warmer planet would be a greener planet, which is good for plants and good for human beings. Human lives lost to hurricanes and other weather phenomena have declined dramatically as our wealth increases and our habitat is stronger. Too many environmentalists believe human beings are a "cancer," and planet earth would be better off if hundreds of millions, or even billions of human beings were exterminated. Their plans for government to fight "climate change" would do just that. | |||
| No | Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| Joe Biden said 2nd Amendment advocates would need F-15s in order to overthrow the government. Fine. The 2nd Amendment guarantees every American the right to own F-15s and the right to buy bazookas, howitzers, hand grenades and bombs -- without a background check and without registration. Whatever is needed to violently overthrow any government that becomes a tyranny. That's our right. Having said that, I am a pacifist, I hate guns, and I believe the American Revolution was a violation of Romans 13. Jesus said "Render unto Caesar," not kill tax collectors. https://KevinCraig.us/revolution.htm https://KevinCraig.us/guns.htm | |||
| No | Do you support a government-run (single-payer) healthcare program, such as Medicare-for-All? | ||
| No | Do you support expanding paid family AND/OR medical leave opportunities? | ||
| No | Do you support lowering the cost of prescription drugs? | ||
| I support utopia -- free drugs for all, no work for any. I do not support any plan by government -- a "monopoly of violence" -- to try to create utopia. | |||
| No | Do you support increasing security along the southern US border? | ||
| No | Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? | ||
| "We the People" did not give Washington D.C. any right to restrict immigration in the Constitution. http://KevinCraig.us/immigration13.htm Ending the War on Drugs -- another unconstitutional government program -- would remove the profits from drug cartels which are destabilizing Central America and causing people to flee here. Ending government welfare would also deter people from coming here who cannot make an economic contribution to America. Jesus said "I was a foreigner and you took Me in" (Matthew 25:35). | |||
| No | Do you support economic intervention as a means of resolving international conflicts? | ||
| No | Do you support the U.S. providing increased offensive military aid to Ukraine? | ||
| The U.S. is risking nuclear war in its quest for uni-polar hegemony in Eastern Europe. http://KevinCraig.us/isolation.htm "The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible." ? Washington, Farewell Address (1796) I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration,?peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none. ? Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (1801) | |||
| No | Do you support raising taxes, on any income or on any entity, to promote economic growth? | ||
| Taxation is immoral. Taxation is theft. We try to hide this fact with political mythology ("Social Contract," etc.). If I put a gun to your head or a sword to your throat and demanded money from you to "promote economic growth," you would know I'm a sociopath. I cannot delegate a power I do not have to government. Raising money by extortion is the root of all evil. https://KevinCraig.us/taxation-extortion.htm | |||
| Yes | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| America enriches the world by vigorous trade. Our "enemies" won't attack us if we raise their standard of living by opening trade with them (unless we attack them first). American consumers benefit from the goods and services provided by people of other nations. | |||
| Abolish the Federal Reserve -- end inflation of the money supply and what James Madison, "Father of the Constitution" called "the pernicious effects of paper money." Abolish the Department of Education -- encourage the complete separation of school and state. Public schools in America were originally created to promote Christianity and the Bible. Allow parents to choose such schools. End all U.S. military aggression overseas and bring all troops home. |
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