Jeffrey Taylor's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Jeffrey Taylor refused to tell citizens where he stands on any of the issues addressed in the 2012 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart, national media, and prominent political leaders.
Issue Positions
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- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "Pro-life" for: "a) Do you consider yourself pro-choice or pro-life?"
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "Yes" for: "e) Should federal subsidies be prohibited from being used for abortion procedures?"
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "No" for: "b) Do you support increasing military assistance for Afghanistan?"
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "Yes" for: "a) Do you support United States military action in Afghanistan?"
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "Slightly Decrease" for: "Indicate 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. c) Defense"
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "Slightly Decrease" for: "c) Defense"
- Jeff Taylor. Video: Kitt interviews Jeff Taylor for Congress. 17 September 2008. "I really strongly believe in lower taxes. Less government [¦] My platform proposes an increased tax credit for dependents [¦] tax credit for education [¦] and finally a tax credit for health care." 3:54 (www.youtube.com)
- Jeff Taylor. Home. 15 March 2012. "As your voice in Congress, Jeff Taylor will work to: [¦] Lower taxes." (taylor4congress.com)
- Jeff Taylor. Issue Position: Spending & Big Government. "Reform the tax code by implementing one or more of the following taxing options: Flat tax; National sales tax or transaction tax (including tax on real estate, stock transactions, and corporate buyouts. Reform the non-profit regulations and tax all corporations not performing true humanitarian functions [¦] 2/3ds majority for new programs or tax increases." (votesmart.org)
- Jeff Taylor. Issue Position: Spending & Big Government. "We need a smaller more efficient government. We need a government that runs a balanced budget and does not stand in the way of American enterprise, but instead offers solutions and incentives to all Americans." (votesmart.org)
- Jeff Taylor. Issue Position: Jobs & Energy & The Environment. "The current unemployment rate is critical and will soon get worse. High taxes and unnecessary regulations have forced many good jobs offshore. The federal government has restricted the production of domestic oil and eliminated nuclear power while at the same time giving us no alternatives. We are currently ripe for oil terrorism and when our current deficit spending impacts the Dollar we can expect substantially higher prices on everything, especially gas." (votesmart.org)
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "Yes" for: "5) Do you support using government funds in an effort to stimulate and improve the economy?"
- Jeff Taylor. Home. 15 March 2012. "As your voice in Congress, Jeff Taylor will work to: [¦] Stop the Washington, D.C. spending spree and misguided takeover of private industries." (taylor4congress.com)
- Jeff Taylor. Issue Position: Jobs & Energy & the Enviornment. 1 January 2012. "We need to turn American industry and the American worker loose. We need to remove unneeded restrictions and provide incentives that will empower American industry. American ingenuity and industry can solve our energy needs while at the same time IMPROVING our environment. Also, American ingenuity and industry will continue to provide exciting new goods and services that will lead to good, clean, well paying jobs and a new prosperity. America can lead the world out of the current financial and political problems." (votesmart.org)
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "No" for: "d) Do you support federal funding for K-12 school vouchers?"
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "Greatly Decrease" for: "d) Education"
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "No" for: "b) Do you support federal funding for universal pre-K programs?"
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "No" for: "c) Do you support federal funding for charter schools?"
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "Yes" for: "a) Do you support federal education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students?"
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "Greatly Decrease" for: "Indicate 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. d) Education"
- Jeff Taylor. Issue Position: Family and Public Education. "We need to get government out of managing our families and instead into helping them. Bold new incentives should be put in place to help keep the family together, keep one parent at home with the kids, restore parental rights, and reform our mostly failed educational systems. [¦] We must restore the parent's right to choose the method of their child's education by providing school vouchers." (votesmart.org)
- Jeff Taylor. Video: Kitt interviews Jeff Taylor for Congress. 17 September 2008. "I'm terribly dissatisfied with our current education system [¦] I propose a tax credit for education [¦] that way the power goes to the parents. I truly believe that this will solve our problems." 8:30 (www.youtube.com)
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "Yes" for: "e) Do you support domestic oil exploration in federally-protected areas?"
- Jeff Taylor. Issue Position: Jobs & Energy & the Environment. "Provide incentives for Americans to generate abundant clean electric energy through Nuclear, Geo thermal, Solar, and as yet unknown technologies. Provide incentives for Americans to perfect hydrogen or some other alternative to oil for future intercity and recreational travel. Remove current restrictions so as to allow domestic production and refinement of oil. This will protect us from foreign exploitation and create good Jobs until alternative energy sources are available." (votesmart.org)
- Jeff Taylor. Video: Kitt interviews Jeff Taylor for Congress. 17 September 2008. "I plan on achieving energy independence by supporting offshore drilling as well as bringing back our nuclear development technology [¦] this form of energy can greatly offset our coal and electrical plants across the country." 5:01 (www.youtube.com)
- Jeff Taylor. Issue Position: Jobs & Energy & the Enviornment. 1 January 2012. " ...the EPA has become a bureaucracy that hurts American business but does surprisingly little to really help the environment." (votesmart.org)
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "No" for: "a) Do you support enacting environmental regulations aimed at reducing the effects of climate change?"
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "No" for: "b) Do you support international emissions targets aimed at reducing the effects of climate change?"
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "No" for: "c) Do you support allowing energy producers to trade carbon credits under a "cap and trade" system?"
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "Yes" for: "d) Do you support strengthening fuel efficiency standards on all gasoline and diesel-powered engines, including cars, trucks, and sport utility vehicles?"
- Jeff Taylor. Issue Position: Jobs & Energy & the Environment. "Provide incentives for high-speed rail and other forms of public transportation that will reduce emissions." (votesmart.org)
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "Yes" for: "c) Do you support allowing individuals to carry concealed guns?"
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "Yes" for: "b) Do you believe that the Second Amendment guarantees the right of individual citizens to own guns?"
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "No" for: "a) Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?"
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "No" for: "d) Do you support a ban on assault rifles?"
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "Yes" for: "b) Do you support expanding access to health care through commercial health insurance reform?"
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "Yes" for: "a) Do you support a publicly-administered health insurance option?"
- Jeff Taylor. Issue Position: Healthcare. "In the past few decades we have developed some problems in the best health care system in the world. Washington's solution to these problems is to pass a bill that creates a huge new government bureaucracy imposes stifling regulations and levies 8 new taxes on small business [¦] This new bureaucracy should be rescinded at once. America has the ability and should provide affordable health care for everyone. To accomplish this we need to reform the current system not have a government takeover." (votesmart.org)
- Jeff Taylor. Video: Kitt interviews Jeff Taylor for Congress. 17 September 2008. "My platform proposes [¦] a tax credit for health care [¦] a tax credit for you and I to make a decision how we spend our health care dollars is the most appropriate way of promoting national health care." 3:54 (www.youtube.com)
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "Yes" for: "d) Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration laws by state and local police?"
- Jeff Taylor. Issue Position: Immigration. "It is simply impractical to expect approximately 12 million immigrants to be deported. Jeff Taylor suggests that all foreign nationals who are working or attending school should be granted temporary guest worker or student visas. The visas would be conditional on regular verification of job status and the ability of the immigrant to support himself and any dependents. Once the work visa program is in effect any foreign nationals who break our laws or fail to pay taxes shall be jailed and then deported." votesmart.org/public-statement/549774/issue-position-immigration
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "Yes" for: "a) Do you support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants?"
- Jeff Taylor. Issue Position: Immigration. "I will work to see that our borders are enforced and our country's security is not compromised. Existing laws must be enforced, but we must work to ensure that enforcement is possible by the men & women protecting our borders [¦] I propose a plan which will require immigrants to register as guest workers, and also require employers to register positions, matching registered immigrants and positions [...] registrants will be required to make payments into a fund for health & auto insurance, in addition to all other applicable income taxes. This will insure that they have to proper coverage, and are not a drain on our local economies. After 8 years in this program, registrants can apply to become United States citizens. After a two year program, in which they learn of our country and our Constitution, they can become U.S. Citizens." (votesmart.org)
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "Yes" for: "a) Should marriage only be between one man and one woman?"
- Jeff Taylor. Issue Position: Vote Yes on Proposition 8. "The drive and foundation in Jeff Taylor's campaign for Congress is a strong desire to promote & protect Traditional Family Values. Marriage is under attack! In 2000 the people of California voted 61% in favor of Proposition 22 to recognize marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman only. On May 15, 2008 after Proposition 8 was qualified to be on the November ballot to amend the California State Constitution, one California Supreme Court Justice reversed the Will of the People of California. I support Proposition 8 Protect Marriage Act and encourage you to vote and let your voice be heard." (votesmart.org)
- Jeff Taylor. Video: Kitt interviews Jeff Taylor 4 Congress. 17 September 2008. "My faith is the foundation of my family values. Proposition 8 is very, very important to me more important than my own personal campaign [¦] Proposition 8 [¦] protects marriage as we know it today, between a man and a woman [¦] This relationship between a man and a woman is not just something we created as man, it's something that's very dear to God [¦] I feel very, very strongly about this." 2:15 (www.youtube.com)
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "Yes" for: "d) Should the United States continue to strike suspected terrorist targets in Pakistan?"
- Jeff Taylor. Issue Position: Social Security. "Social Security sets the bar so low that it is easy to do better. Sooner, rather than later, workers should be given the right to divert a substantial portion of their payroll taxes into personal accounts, where their retirement funds can be exposed to market rates of return." (votesmart.org)
- Jeff Taylor. Project Vote Smart: 2010 California Congressional Political Courage Test. Selected "Yes" for: "a) Do you support privatizing elements of Social Security?"
This candidate has responded to a Political Courage Test in a previous election. As a continued effort to provide the American public with factual information on candidates running for public office, these archived responses are made available here.
| 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? | ||
| f) Other or expanded principles | |||
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.
| Slightly Decrease | a) Agriculture | ||
| Greatly Decrease | b) Arts | ||
| Slightly Decrease | c) Defense | ||
| Maintain Status | 1) Intelligence operations | ||
| Slightly Decrease | 2) Military hardware | ||
| Maintain Status | 3) National missile defense | ||
| Maintain Status | 4) Salary and benefits for active duty personnel | ||
| Maintain Status | 5) Programs to improve troop retention rates | ||
| Maintain Status | 6) Research and development of new weapons | ||
| Greatly Decrease | d) Education | ||
| Slightly Decrease | e) Environment | ||
| Slightly Decrease | f) Homeland security | ||
| Slightly Decrease | g) International aid | ||
| Slightly Decrease | h) Medical research | ||
| Slightly Decrease | i) Scientific research | ||
| Slightly Decrease | j) Space exploration | ||
| Greatly Decrease | k) United Nations | ||
| Slightly Decrease | l) Welfare | ||
| m) Other or expanded categories | |||
| Slightly Increase | a) Alcohol taxes | ||
| Eliminate | b) Capital gains taxes | ||
| Slightly Increase | c) Cigarette taxes | ||
| Slightly Decrease | d) Corporate taxes | ||
| Slightly Increase | 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) | ||
| i) Other or expanded categories | |||
| 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? | ||
| Yes | 5) Do you support using government funds in an effort to stimulate and improve the economy? | ||
| 6) Other or expanded principles | |||
| 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? | ||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| Yes | b) Should Congress regulate indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| No | c) Do you support removing all contribution limits on federal campaigns? | ||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| g) Other or expanded principles | |||
| 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? | ||
| f) Other or expanded principles | |||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| f) Other or expanded principles | |||
| 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? | ||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support federal funding for the development of alternative energy? | ||
| Yes | g) Do you support the development of nuclear reactors? | ||
| h) Other or expanded principles | |||
| 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? | ||
| e) Other or expanded principles | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support a publicly-administered health insurance option? | ||
| Yes | 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 | |||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| e) Other or expanded principles | |||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| j) Other or expanded principles | |||
| Yes | a) Should marriage only be between one man and one woman? | ||
| No | 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? | ||
| e) Other or expanded principles | |||
| We do not have a Revenue problem we have a Spending problem. 1. Repeal the HC Bill & resubmit new bill which lowers cost by a) Tort Reform, b) promote interstate insurance coverage, C) Relax international pharmaceuticals, D) Reform FDA to provide for lower cost & faster track to allow newer drugs & no regulation of homeopathic/natural herbs ect. 2. Repeal the Financial Reform Bill & replace with new less regulation & restrictive towards new startups & small businesses & Financial Institutions. Reform mark to market averaging of valuation. Provide for 4% for 40 years to assist forclosure modifications ... |
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