Eric Marshall's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Hawaii State Legislative Election 2012 Political Courage Test
| Pro-life | a) Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| Yes | b) Should abortions be illegal after the first trimester of pregnancy? | ||
| No | c) Should abortion be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape? | ||
| No | d) Should abortion be legal when the life of the woman is endangered? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support requiring parental notification before an abortion is performed on a minor? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support requiring parental consent before an abortion is performed on a minor? | ||
| Yes | g) Do you support the prohibition of public funds for abortion procedures? | ||
| Yes | h) Do you support the prohibition of public funds for organizations that perform abortions? | ||
| Abortion is infanticide and should be treated in the same legal context as murder. Life is a unalienable right. Incest and rape statistics have never been tracked, even so it is a travesty to tell those who were born because of rape or incest that they should never have been born and deserve death. Two evils don't equal one good. Who can judge whose life is more important a mother or her child? The abortion procedures themselves have led to more deaths of mothers than anyone wants to admit. A mother's emotional health is an important factor as well. | |||
1) State Spending:Using the key, indicate what state funding levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one level per category; you may use a number more than once.2) State Taxes:Using the key,indicate what state tax levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one level per category; you may use a number more than once.3) Budget Stabilization:Indicate which proposals you support (if any) for balancing Hawaii's budget.
| Eliminate | a) Education (higher) | ||
| Slightly Decrease | b) Education (K-12) | ||
| Eliminate | c) Environment | ||
| Slightly Decrease | d) Health care | ||
| Slightly Decrease | e) Law enforcement/corrections | ||
| Greatly Decrease | f) Transportation/infrastructure | ||
| Greatly Decrease | g) Welfare | ||
| Slightly Decrease | a) Alcohol taxes | ||
| Slightly Decrease | b) Cigarette taxes | ||
| Greatly Decrease | c) Corporate taxes | ||
| Greatly Decrease | d) Gas/Oil taxes | ||
| Greatly Decrease | e) Property taxes | ||
| Greatly Decrease | f) Sales taxes | ||
| Slightly Increase | g) Income taxes (low-income families) | ||
| Greatly Decrease | h) Income taxes (mid-income families) | ||
| Slightly Decrease | i) Income taxes (high-income families) | ||
| No | j) Do you support expanding the film and television tax credit? | ||
| No | a) Tapping into Hawaii's "rainy day" fund | ||
| No | b) Increasing tuition rates at public universities | ||
| Yes | c) Reducing or eliminating public worker collective bargaining | ||
| Yes | d) Reducing state employee salaries AND/OR pensions | ||
| Yes | e) Instituting mandatory furloughs AND/OR layoffs for state employees | ||
| Yes | f) Reducing benefits for Medicaid recipients | ||
| Legislators, Politicians and Bureaucrats pay needs to be decreased considerably. Neighborhood boards and Credit Union boards are all volunteer leaving only those who truly serve the people needs without monetary influences. Environmental costs should be provided by public charities and non-profits that Environmentalists can donate to for tax rebates. Businesses should also get tax relief for supporting environmental causes. Higher Education is the second largest debt behind only mortgage debt. Professors and University bureaucrats are overly paid for the services they provide. As a child raised on welfare I know first hand on how it holds people down. | |||
| Taxes in Hawaii are some of the highest in the nation and need to be decreased in order for Governement to become streamlined in order to free up businesses to create more jobs. Decreased taxes helps spur the economy leading to more tax revenues. Government doesn't generate any wealth or income it only spends it. As a low income earner it might not be easy for me to say I deserve to pay more taxes but most low income earners pay no income taxes. A Fair tax would help peolple demand for more government efficiencies and accountability. | |||
| Efficiencies need to be sought and fought for for the good of all the people and for future generations. Leadership that has the political courage to tell it as it is and is willing to make the hard decision. Spending less than we make is just common sense. | |||
a) Do you support limits on the following types of contributions for state candidates?
| Yes | 1) Individual | ||
| Yes | 2) Political Action Committee | ||
| Yes | 3) Corporate | ||
| Yes | 4) Political Party | ||
| Yes | b) Should candidates for state office be encouraged to meet voluntary spending limits? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support the use of an independent AND/OR bipartisan commission for redistricting? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support requiring a government-issued photo identification in order to vote at the polls? | ||
| Limits help to curb the influence money has on elections. Although we still need to protect the rights of regular citizens and businesses to use their money to support causes and candidates that they agree with. The Citizens United Case is constituional and should be protected. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support alternatives to incarceration for certain non-violent offenders, such as mandatory counseling or substance abuse treatment? | ||
| No | c) Do you support decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana? | ||
| Yes | d) Should a minor accused of a violent crime be prosecuted as an adult? | ||
| Yes | e) Should a minor who sends sexually-explicit or nude photos by cell phone face criminal charges? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration laws by state and local police? | ||
| Gambling and pornography need to be stopped if society is to be saved from moral decay. Alternatives to prison should including Labor programs where convicts work to compensate monetarirly for their crimes to society. Labors law rights should be reduced and the work should be labourous for convicts and their pay should be given to victims and the government. Partnerships with businesses should be established help create the income. Prisons should work to be self sustaning having prisoners farming their own food and livestock. They should prepare their own meals. No work no eat. Early release for military service. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support reducing government regulations on the private sector? | ||
| No | b) Do you support increased state funding for job-training programs that re-train displaced workers? | ||
| No | c) Do you support expanding access to unemployment benefits? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support providing financial incentives to the private sector for the purpose of job creation? | ||
| No | e) Do you support increased spending on infrastructure projects for the purpose of job creation? | ||
| No | f) Do you support providing direct financial assistance to homeowners facing foreclosure? | ||
| As a Compliance Officer I see first hand how much regulations and redtape wastes time and resources that could be use on increasing productivity. The waste is why America is losing ground to other countries with less regulations. Although job training is a great thing it should not be susidized by taxpayer funds. Businesses and the workers have the benefit and should bear the costs. Unemployment benefits encourages laziness and is not fair to the people who work for a living. Foreclosure laws are terribly making it harder to qualify for a home (stupid Legislators). | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support the national Common Core State Standards initiative? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support a merit pay system for teachers? | ||
| No | c) Is the tenure process for public school teachers producing effective teachers? | ||
| Yes | d) Should parents be allowed to use vouchers to send their children to any school? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support state funding for charter schools? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support the state government providing college students with financial aid? | ||
| No | g) Should illegal immigrants who graduate from Hawaii high schools be eligible for in-state tuition at public universities? | ||
| The Degradation of Education has been happening over that last 2 decades. Teacher Unions are a big part of that as well is the progressives and Leftist who dominate the system. These people are leading this younger generation to be one of the most brainwashed and indoctrinated towards liberal and immoral beliefs. Loose standards and the political correctness against competitiveness and the teaching that there is no such thing as losers is killing our children and creating great apathy. | |||
| No | a) Do you support state funding for the development of alternative energy? | ||
| No | b) Do you support state funding for the development of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, oil)? | ||
| No | c) Do you support state funding for improvements to Hawaii's energy infrastructure? | ||
| No | d) Do you support state funding for open space preservation? | ||
| No | e) Do you support enacting environmental regulations aimed at reducing the effects of climate change? | ||
| The State governement is not the best entity to be given money to be redistributed to energy corporations. Businesses should be deregulated and competitive to provide alternative sources of energy through market | |||
| No | a) Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns? | ||
| No | b) Should background checks be required on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows? | ||
| Yes | c) Should citizens be allowed to carry concealed guns? | ||
| No | d) Should a license be required for gun possession? | ||
| 2nd Amendment prevents government and criminals from asserting power over the common people. Human health and safety are at stake. Aurora and the Norweigian shooting would not have happen if crazy and evil people knew everyone might be packing a gun. | |||
| No | a) Do you support a universally-accessible, publicly-administered health insurance option? | ||
| No | b) Do you support expanding access to health care through commercial health insurance reform? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support interstate health insurance compacts? | ||
| No | d) Do you support requiring individuals to purchase health care insurance? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support monetary limits on damages that can be collected in malpractice lawsuits? | ||
| No | f) Do you support allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes? | ||
| Obamacare is taling money form Medicare and will change Medicare as we know it. Taxing people who don't have insurance is crazy and should never happen in a free society. | |||
| Yes | a) Should marriage only be between one man and one woman? | ||
| No | b) Should same-sex couples be allowed to form civil unions? | ||
| No | c) Do you support the inclusion of sexual orientation in Hawaii's anti-discrimination laws? | ||
| No | d) Do you support the inclusion of gender identity in Hawaii's anti-discrimination laws? | ||
| This is the number one moral issue causing the collapse in American Society similar to when Homosexuality help lead to the fall of the Roman Empire. | |||
| Being a vocal leader in fighting against immorality, liberalism and the tyrannical rule by Hawaii's Democrat Oligarchies. Stopping all goverment waste and inefficiencies suppressing the families in Hawaii from succeeding and moving forward to future with less government control and taxes. Helping the poor and needly in Hawaii to be able to succeed on their own not influenced and controlled by Progressives promises of a enslaving them to government programs. |
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