Mattie Fein's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Mattie Fein refused to tell citizens where she stands on any of the issues addressed in the 2010 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart, national media, and prominent political leaders.
Issue Positions
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- Mattie Fein. My Interview With Mattie Fein. 21 October 2010. "Only a collection of mental midgets could assert that the way to job creation and prosperity is to celebrate trillion dollar government budget deficits and hundreds of billions for profligate banks or insurance companies that starve private enterprise of credit needed to start or expand operations. These government extravagances are job, business, and labor killers. If there are better ways to drive the United States to ruination, they do not readily come to mind." (www.tygrrrrexpress.com)
- Mattie Fein. Issue Position: Taxes. "Some Members of Congress are eager to hike taxes to support government spending sprees at the expense of credit to private enterprise. Every dollar taxed is a dollar diverted from businesses and households. At current tax rates, the government is taking our paychecks and salaries until Wednesday or Thursday of every work week. Taxes should be made fairer and simpler. Hard work should be rewarded, and indolence discouraged." (votesmart.org)
- Mattie Fein. Issue Position: Jobs and The Economy. "To create and preserve jobs in the South Bay, a business-friendly environment featuring low taxes is essential. Jobs are lost when American companies are handcuffed in competing with foreign rivals in fast growing economies like China or India. Regulatory overkill and government waste must end . Small business must regain access to credit to expand and prosper." (votesmart.org)
- Mattie Fein. My Interview With Mattie Fein. 21 October 2010. "The American people should have a choice as to whether they contribute to Social Security in the future. Those who opt out would pay no social security taxes and receive no benefits. Those who opt in will pay social security taxes and receive benefits. The idea that some Americans are too stupid to save or insure against old age is insulting on its face and betrays a paternalism that would have nauseated the Founding Fathers. I believe in less government not more. I also believe that Americans should have a right to chart their own financial course. As for the existing plan, current social security recipients would continue to receive their promised benefits, but for others still in the work-force the choice should be their own." (www.tygrrrrexpress.com)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Mattie Fein. My Interview With Mattie Fein. 21 October 2010. "Free public education is what the government does right, even if the task is often ineptly executed. No civilized democracy can be preserved in a state of ignorance." (www.tygrrrrexpress.com)
- Mattie Fein. Issue Position: Education. "Education should not be a government monopoly. Teachers, parents, and students should be held accountable to exacting standards of achievement." (votesmart.org)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Mattie Fein. My Interview With Mattie Fein. 21 October 2010. "Justice Antonin Scalia correctly held in District of Columbia v. Heller (June 26, 2008) that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms protected an individual right to possess handguns in the home for self-protection against encroachments by the federal government. It seems to me implausible, however, that the Second Amendment was intended to handcuff gun regulation by the States via the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment." (www.tygrrrrexpress.com)
- Mattie Fein. Issue Position: Healthcare. "The healthcare reform bill signed into law must be repealed. There are many positive reforms at the state and federal level that would create greater access to and affordability of healthcare without trashing the U.S. Constitution, hiking taxes, and forcing businesses to layoff more employees." (votesmart.org)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Mattie Fein. Issue Position: National Security. "Invincible defenses and the rule of law are best calculated to preserve and defend our sovereignty and liberties. High tech weapons and intelligence collection should not be shortchanged. Troops should not be sent abroad on fool's errands, and we should employ covert action short of war to eliminate enemies or sabotage nuclear ambitions." (votesmart.org)
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