Rashid Malik's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Rashid Malik has failed to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2024 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.
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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.
| No | In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? | ||
| Yes | Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| Yes | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| No | Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| Yes | Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19? | ||
| Yes | Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| Yes | Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| No WMD or Auto guns. No guns for mentally disturbed individuals. Psychological and Genetic testing per violence tendencies by experts. | |||
| No | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")? | ||
| Yes | Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19? | ||
| First we have to survive and then only we can be productive. Survival First. | |||
| No | Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican 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 need to expand our economy from Canada to Chile and ferry into the Caribbean. Once a person is inside the country, that person should be treated equally under the law. Why someone has to leave to get fair representation by law and lawyers. | |||
| Yes | Should the United States use military force to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a weapon of mass destruction (for example: nuclear, biological, chemical)? | ||
| Yes | Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts? | ||
| I will promote the economic model of "Peace via Trade!" "Peace via Trade" model will help us to move away from military based trickle down economy to grassroots micro-entrepreneurship based economy where individuals will be directly involved with the economy to benefit and will not have to look up to the wealthy people for the economy to trickle down. In fact, trickle down economy is a hoax and it never produces wealth and prosperity for our nation. | |||
| Yes | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| "Peace via Trade" economic model will create greater circulation of resources, funds, and human resources thus helping to eradicate income inequalities and save lives of our children. Education: Education will provide to seek own living with depending on others. We should make K to College education free for all along with vocational training. Universal Healthcare: A healthy labor force can contribute to our economy. In fact, we do not have the population to sustain our country with compared to 3 billion China/India. We have a population crisis right now. 70 million seniors, 70 million children out of 330 million. |
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