Lars Johnson's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Lars Johnson refused to tell citizens where he/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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- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Lars Johnson. Issue Position: The Economy. "Government's role in the economy is: * Provide a fair and predictable justice system that allows for profitable trade between citizens. Contracts are binding; * Local law enforcement should prevent people from stealing or damaging someone else's stuff; * Government should never compete with the private sector when the private sector can do the job. It is not government's job to deter business practices by taxing or to create incentive by subsidizing. The federal government's role should be to stand back and let the citizens take care of their needs. So much wealth has been siphoned out of our production that we have become poor. A wealthy nation consists of many prosperous people." (votesmart.org)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Lars Johnson. Issue Position: Education. "Parents and the decision makers at the local level must have the latitude to do whatever it takes to give their children the best chance at success in this life as an outcome of their education. As your Congressman, I will work to decentralize the decision-making process for educating our children. Federal dollars can be replaced by local dollars, which will be more responsibly spent. Remember, billions of dollars leave the state every year to go to Washington and points beyond. Dollars that are put on the national credit card must be repaid. If you don't think they'll have to be repaid, ask your college graduate what the chances are of not paying those monstrous student loans back.Until we can make education completely a state matter, I will work to reduce the mandates that go along with the funding." (votesmart.org)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Lars Johnson. Issue Position. Health Care. "I believe that government should have no role in health care, primarily because there is no delegation of this power to the federal government in the Constitution. They had doctors then and they had sick people then. They also had people who could not afford to pay their bills. Yet, they did not make it a federal issue. It would, of course, be very difficult to get all the way back to no government involvement..." (votesmart.org)
- Lars Johnson. Issue Position: Immigration. "Illegal aliens who are discovered are sent back to the country of origin. Foreign aid to that country is reduced by ($100,000) per illegal alien. The one exception: political or religious asylum." (votesmart.org)
- Lars Johnson. Issue Position: Military. "Afghanistan/Iraq -- We should pull out. No timetable comments, as that would be careless and put those nations at risk. We have done just about everything we can do to quell the identified threat. Remaining there would serve to inflame the citizens or establish our presence for decades to come." (votesmart.org)
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