Pat Brock's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Hawaii Congressional Election 2010 Political Courage Test
| Pro-choice | a) Do you consider yourself pro-choice or pro-life? | ||
| No | 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? | ||
| The most practical demarcation for legal personhood is the traditional one, at the moment of birth, when the person draws its first breath. To monitor otherwise is to infringe on the privacy of the mother. The question of morality of an abortion ought to be between a mother & her creator. | |||
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.
| Eliminate | a) Agriculture | ||
| Eliminate | b) Arts | ||
| Slightly Decrease | c) Defense | ||
| Maintain Status | 1) Intelligence operations | ||
| Slightly Decrease | 2) Military hardware | ||
| Slightly Increase | 3) National missile defense | ||
| Slightly Increase | 4) Salary and benefits for active duty personnel | ||
| Slightly Decrease | 5) Programs to improve troop retention rates | ||
| Slightly Increase | 6) Research and development of new weapons | ||
| Eliminate | d) Education | ||
| Eliminate | e) Environment | ||
| Greatly Decrease | f) Homeland security | ||
| Eliminate | g) International aid | ||
| Eliminate | h) Medical research | ||
| Eliminate | i) Scientific research | ||
| Eliminate | j) Space exploration | ||
| Eliminate | k) United Nations | ||
| Eliminate | l) Welfare | ||
| Eliminate | a) Alcohol taxes | ||
| Eliminate | b) Capital gains taxes | ||
| Eliminate | c) Cigarette taxes | ||
| Greatly Increase | d) Corporate taxes | ||
| Eliminate | e) Gasoline taxes | ||
| Eliminate | f) Income taxes (low-income families) | ||
| Eliminate | g) Income taxes (middle-income families) | ||
| Eliminate | h) Income taxes (high-income families) | ||
| 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? | ||
| No | 5) Do you support using government funds in an effort to stimulate and improve the economy? | ||
| The United States should go back to fulfilling its original purpose, as a mutual defense coalition for the States. | |||
| To be born obligated to the United States for what you do to survive is serious breach of the freedom the organization was created to preserve. Not only do personal income taxes counter liberty, they also seriously inhibit what could be an unbelievably robust economy. People shirk work in the fear they will run afoul of the IRS. Taxes can be paid by organizations intended to limit property liability, such as corporations. People wishing to have their assets protected by this feature of government ought to pay for the privilege. | |||
| Deep tax cuts or a tax holiday would have provided a more direct and immediate remedy to people rather than the centralized attempt at engineering economy. The recession could have been over by now at a speed depending on the depth and duration of the tax cut. A 1 year tax vacation for all American taxpayers would have been much cheaper than the stimulus program. | |||
| 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? | ||
| No | e) Do you support federal funding for job-training programs that retrain displaced workers? | ||
| Free people have the right to form and belong to organizations, including unions. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support removing all contribution limits on federal campaigns? | ||
| No | d) Should candidates for federal office be encouraged to meet voluntary spending limits? | ||
| No | 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? | ||
| The President's job is to interpret the intentions of the people's representatives and execute them as faithfully as possible. | |||
| No | 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? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support mandatory prison sentences for selling illegal drugs? | ||
| Only violent or potentially harmful crimes such as theft or the destruction of property should be crimes. Non-violent activities should be legal. | |||
| No | 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? | ||
| Education is parental responsibility and a community concern. It should be organized and financed at the community level. | |||
| 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? | ||
| No | 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? | ||
| No | f) Do you support federal funding for the development of alternative energy? | ||
| Yes | g) Do you support the development of nuclear reactors? | ||
| The environment is everybody's mutual possession. It is wrong for some to force others into making or keeping the environment as they think it should be. Our species owes its success to our ability to manipulate the environment to our survival. People need to make their own judgments based on the information they have & create the environment they want. The market drives innovation to create cheaper tools which require less natural resource investment, mitigating the impact of our growing population. | |||
| 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? | ||
| The right of individuals to own tools, including those of self defense, is in keeping with the American concept of freedom. The protection of all of our other rights depends on it. | |||
| No | a) Do you support a publicly-administered health insurance option? | ||
| No | 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? | ||
| No | 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? | ||
| Government management of the medical, or any other industry, will force private providers out of the market, restrict choices, and ultimately force a collapse of the industry. | |||
| 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? | ||
| No | d) Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration laws by state and local police? | ||
| The travel of people over borders does not, in itself, pose a threat. In fact it enhances commerce, enriching all of us. Government has set up a system of taking the property of Americans and returning it to them later. If this redistribution was stopped, aliens would have no advantage. Otherwise, when here, people have the same expenses. Those most willing to do the jobs for the price are the ones that should have them. Criminals exist everywhere. Foreign criminals are no worse that domestic ones. It is just a matter of preserving the peace. | |||
| No | 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? | ||
| No | d) Should the United States continue to strike suspected terrorist targets in Pakistan? | ||
| No | e) Do you support granting aid to countries when it is in the security interests of the United States? | ||
| No | f) Should the United States support the creation of a Palestinian state? | ||
| No | g) Do you support increasing sanctions on Iran if it continues to defy United Nations mandates? | ||
| Yes | h) Do you support the withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq? | ||
| No | i) Do you support the United States' involvement in free trade agreements? | ||
| Free trade occurs among free individuals and organizations of individuals, as are corporations. Government need not intervene other than to protect the travel and communications among them, when they are here. | |||
| No | a) Should marriage only be between one man and one woman? | ||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| Marriage is a religious rite, as well as a social contract. The religious orientation of people ought not be the business of government. All people should be able to avail themselves of the same contractual agreements now available to married people. The favoring of some people over others, as allowed by affirmative action programs, disrupts the level playing field of equality. The historically unequal treatment of some people, does not justify the unequal treatment of others today. Two wrongs don't make a right. | |||
| 1) I would introduce a bill to propose a Constitutional amendment to reverse the 16th amendment which authorizes personal income tax. Because a Constitutional amendment requires the ratification of 3/4 of the states, in the mean time, I would introduce a bill to deeply reduce taxes to allow the economy to rebound. 2) I would introduce a bill to bring troops home from Iraq & Afghanistan & sell off all U.S. foreign bases. 3) I would submit bills to reverse federal laws against personal choice, such as drug laws, & abolish the DEA. |
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