Chris Booth's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Chris Booth 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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- Chris Booth. 2010. Live Free or Die Alliance: Chris Booth. Responded "NO These are settled issues. Everyone has a right to marry, no one has the right to kill anyone, and every woman has a right to consult with her doctor as to what is best for her, and take any action needed" to the question "Should the federal government play a legislative role in societal issues, such as; Abortion" (www.livefreeordiealliance.com)
- Chris Booth. 2010. Live Free or Die Alliance: Chris Booth. Responded "YES...Estate tax rates should remain permanently at the 2010 rate - zero" to the question "Do you think estate tax rates should be: Reduced from their projected 2011 rates? Or returned to their 2009 rates?" (www.livefreeordiealliance.com)
- Chris Booth. 2010. The Voter Guide: Nashua Telegraph--US Senate. Responded "Neither. Both are important. Stimulating the economy can be done without spending any tax dollars, though, by creating a healthy business climate. The deficit refers only to current spending, and what is more important is the total accrued debt or surplus, which needs to be reduced in a responsible manner" to the question "Which is more important, cutting the deficit or stimulating the economy? Please be specific." (www.thevoterguide.org)
- Chris Booth. Blog: The Economy. 13 October 2010. "What we really need is fiscal responsibility in the Congress. We spend money we do not have on things we do not need and ignore problems that are easily fixed. Who does the Congress work for? Lobbyists or the people? What has happened is that banking regulations that made banking boring, predictable, and low paying, have been removed, allowing banking to be exciting, unpredictable, and high paying, but who has paid the price? We have." (www.electchrisbooth.com)
- Chris Booth. Chris Booth: Wall. 13 October 2010. "Folks, the solution to balancing the budget is to maintain a rainy day trust fund, anticipate needs, and above all spend less money. Increasing taxes will never work. The problem is that we have too much taxation already, and therefore are spending way too much." (www.facebook.com)
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- Chris Booth. 2010. Live Free or Die Alliance: Chris Booth. Responded "NO These are settled issues. Everyone has a right to marry, no one has the right to kill anyone, and every woman has a right to consult with her doctor as to what is best for her, and take any action needed" to the question "Should the federal government play a legislative role in societal issues, such as; Death Penalty" (www.livefreeordiealliance.com)
- Chris Booth. 2010. Live Free or Die Alliance: Chris Booth. Responded "It should be repealed" to the question "Should the No Child Left Behind Act be amended?" (www.livefreeordiealliance.com)
- Chris Booth. 2010. Live Free or Die Alliance: Chris Booth. Responded "NO" to the question "Should the federal government enact a cap and trade law for carbon emissions?" Responded "YES This needs to be coordinated internationally, and collected locally" to the question "Should there be a federal carbon tax?" (www.livefreeordiealliance.com)
- Chris Booth. 2010. The Voter Guide: Nashua Telegraph--US Senate. Responded "Whether global warming is a factor or not, we need to transition as quickly and as smoothly as we can to renewable, sustainable resources, which means wind and solar, just to control costs. The oil companies should be happy to assist, because they can sell the remaining oil for twice as much as petrochemicals as they can for use as a fuel. We can appropriately have a small but escalating carbon tax to assist with the transition. After we have transitioned the tax can be removed, and the price of oil can be reduced" to the question "Is comprehensive climate-change legislation so critical that you would support it, even if it means increasing energy prices substantially over the next decade? Why, or why not?" (www.thevoterguide.org)
- Chris Booth. Issue Position: Energy for the 21st Century. "World wide, we have a 35 year supply of Oil, 70 year supply of Uranium, 85 year supply of Natural Gas, and 155 year supply of Coal - at current rates of consumption. You like Nuclear? We only get 5% of our energy from Nuclear - increase it to 50% and we would have only a 7 year supply. Oops. OK what do we have? We have enough solar to supply over 1,000 times current consumption for as long as we are on the planet - over a billion years. We have enough wind energy available for over 10 times current consumption. Therefore, oil, coal, natural gas, and nuclear are essentially irrelevant and inconsequential in comparison to wind and solar. However, to make wind and solar work we need two additional elements - transmission and storage - to bring energy to where it can be used, or save it for when it is needed. The most practical transmission will be - when it is ready - superconductive transmission lines, buried underground. The most practical storage is pumped-hydro, where two reservoirs are used and the water is pumped from the lower to the upper reservoir when there is more sun and wind than needed, and used to generate electricity by reversing the process." (votesmart.org)
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- Chris Booth. 2010. Live Free or Die Alliance: Chris Booth. Responded "It needs to be replaced long before it goes into effect with something a whole lot better. HR676 is a starting point, but it needs to be amended to remove the payment of expected lost profits, and to allow each state to appoint either a non-profit or state agency as the trustee for each state, and leave it completely up to each of those trustees how to spend the trust fund, and to ask for a revision to the payroll tax once every 5 years (initially set at 10%)" to the question "Should the new healthcare reform bill: Be retained as is? Be repealed? Be amended to change some provisions?" (www.livefreeordiealliance.com)
- Chris Booth. Blog: Health Care. 13 October 2010. "In 1950 in the United States, we essentially had universal health care - doctors made house calls, and office visits were affordable to everyone - about $5 for a half hour consultation. Hospital stays were about $20/day. The average cost per person per year was $100, or $500 in today's dollars. Contrast that with today. Costs have doubled or tripled every ten years to $6,000 per person, and an expected $8,800/person in 2010. All explosions are exponential and all exponentials are unsustainable. When will it stop? How about now? What is most interesting to me is that the unsustainability of health care costs was recognized in 1977." (www.electchrisbooth.com)
- Chris Booth. Issue Position: Universal Health Care. "There is no relationship between wealth and who needs health care, and there should be no relationship between wealth and who gets health care. All industrialized nations other than the United States have moved to a single payer system. I support the passage of HR 676, Expanded and Improved Medicare for All, but with an independent trust fund instead, with disbursements controlled only by doctors and their patients, using best business practices to control costs. It is only up to the patients and their doctors to determine what care is needed, not any company and certainly not the government." (votesmart.org)
- Chris Booth. 2010. Live Free or Die Alliance: Chris Booth. Responded "YES They already have a path - send them back and let them apply for immigration like anyone else. Penalize them by making them wait longer for immigration for having come here illegally" to the question "Should illegal immigrants be given a path to legal status?" Responded "YES" to the question "Should illegal immigrants be sent back to their home country?" (www.livefreeordiealliance.com)
- Chris Booth. 2010. The Voter Guide: Nashua Telegraph--US Senate. Responded "Our health care is seriously being impacted by using our dollars to kill people. How soon can they get onto a plane? We need to leave with dignity and honor, knowing that what we did was beneficial and not harmful. The longer we stay the more we lose any hope of being helpful. In addition I would recommend closing all of our over-seas bases. It is not our jurisdiction to attempt to control any other country, and attempting to do so simply creates more problems than it solves. Empires rise and fail, countries survive. We are a country, and a very proud country" to the question "How long should the U.S. forces stay in Afghanistan? Please be specific."
- Chris Booth. 2010. Live Free or Die Alliance: Chris Booth. Responded "YES" to the question "Should we reduce our commitment to the war in Afghanistan?" (www.livefreeordiealliance.com)
- Chris Booth. 2010. Live Free or Die Alliance: Chris Booth. Responded "NO These are settled issues. Everyone has a right to marry, no one has the right to kill anyone, and every woman has a right to consult with her doctor as to what is best for her, and take any action needed" to the question "Should the federal government play a legislative role in societal issues, such as; Gay Marriage" (www.livefreeordiealliance.com)
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