Martin Hash's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Issue Positions
For Presidential and Congressional candidates who refuse to provide voters with their positions, Vote Smart has researched their public records to determine their likely responses. These issue positions are from 2022.
- "I argue abortion from a liberty perspective. "Give me liberty or give me death," as accepted by Americans, gives liberty precedence over life, and your liberty is only constrained by other people's liberty, plus since liberty is "being responsible for your own actions" and we don't say that's possible until after 18 (21 for alcohol), younger than that has lesser liberty. Putting these 3 facts through the computer results in: a woman's liberty supersedes the problematic liberty & life of her unborn child. (But I'm a guy, I don't really get a say.)" (martinhash.com)
- "Taxation can be optimized for both people and government." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
- "Under the right circumstances, governments don't have to collect any taxes. Unfortunately, since politicians will mistake it for a free ride, the stringent requirements would quickly be violated. However, if a King-Of-The-Budget existed, here's how it would work: productivity/consumption must be increasing and government spending cannot exceed that rate by very much. For example, a GNP of $12 trillion increasing by 5% per year due to increased consumption, some of which come from population growth, and some more from increased productivity, with another 5% inflation, results in a $1.2 trillion need for cash injection, which is the size of the current U.S. budget." (martinhash.com)
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- "Taxation can be optimized for both people and government." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
- "Small business is the backbone of society." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
- "Under the right circumstances, governments don't have to collect any taxes. Unfortunately, since politicians will mistake it for a free ride, the stringent requirements would quickly be violated. However, if a King-Of-The-Budget existed, here's how it would work: productivity/consumption must be increasing and government spending cannot exceed that rate by very much. For example, a GNP of $12 trillion increasing by 5% per year due to increased consumption, some of which come from population growth, and some more from increased productivity, with another 5% inflation, results in a $1.2 trillion need for cash injection, which is the size of the current U.S. budget." (martinhash.com)
- "Small business is the backbone of society." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
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