Allan Levene's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Allan Levene has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2016 Political Courage Test.
Tennessee Congressional Election 2016 Political Courage Test
| Pro-life | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| I am pro life but this topic is no-win for a politician as high emotions drive this issue. See my campaign website, leveneforcongress.com for details. | |||
| No | In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending? | ||
| No | In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? | ||
| I am the manufacturing candidate. Lowering our spending is not the way out of the mess that our administrations and congress have gotten our nation into. We must bring back manufacturing from China. Our strength lies in three areas - our military, the dollar being the number one global reserve currency and manufacturing. If we don't provide incentives to bring back manufacturing we will lose the dollar as the global reserve currency. We will slowly fail, as the United Kingdom has. I will not let it happen if I am elected to office. See my campaign website, leveneforcongress.com for details. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| Not only that, but I want to overhaul our corrupt campaign finance system. See my campaign website, leveneforcongress.com for details. | |||
| Yes | Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes? | ||
| Yes | Do you support alternatives to incarceration for certain non-violent offenders such as mandatory counseling or substance abuse treatment? | ||
| No | Do you support mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders? | ||
| Our War on Drugs is a failure. It continues as our prison system needs prisoners to provide life time employment for the prison officers and support people, and political career stepping stones for the lawyers, usually prosecuting attorneys. Those prisoners are disproportionately black and minorities. That's because they can't afford decent defense attorneys and plea bargain their way into prison. See my campaign website, leveneforcongress.com for details and the resolution to this problem. | |||
| No | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| Yes | Do you support lowering taxes as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| Yes | Do you support providing tax incentives to businesses for the purpose of job creation? | ||
| If you visit my website, leveneforcongress.com you'll find that taxation is my focus Taxation is the power to destroy or the power to create. I prefer to create... new wealth, security and opportunities. I believe in eliminating federal corporate taxes on the profits from manufacturing in the United States. If a company buys all of its components from U.S. manufacturers and manufactures here, they get 100% reduction of taxes on those profits. If they buy 30% of the components from another country, they only get a 70% reduction. This will create millions of new, well paid jobs. | |||
| No | Do you support requiring states to implement education reforms in order to be eligible for competitive federal grants? | ||
| States should be responsible for the education of its citizens, not our federal government. See my campaign website, leveneforcongress.com for details. | |||
| No | Do you support building the Keystone XL pipeline? | ||
| No | Do you support funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)? | ||
| No | Do you support increased regulations on the hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") industry? | ||
| Broadly speaking, I do not want private businesses over-regulated. They are as Congress does NOT make laws; they make or pass frameworks (that they call laws after being signed by our president), and the regulators interpret the frameworks to enforce what they think they mean. In truth, the regulators are the lawmakers not Congress. See my campaign website, leveneforcongress.com for details. | |||
| Yes | Do you believe that human activity is contributing to climate change? | ||
| No | Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| See my campaign website, leveneforcongress.com for details. | |||
| No | Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| I do not mind what guns people buy. I do care what they do with them. Ownership is different from use. We have plenty of laws outlawing inappropriate use, but only one Second Amendment. Both compliment each other and not the opposite. See my campaign website, leveneforcongress.com for details. | |||
| Yes | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")? | ||
| Sadly, we are slowly moving towards a single payer system. Obamacare was the first step, designed to fail as younger Americans would not buy into the program, so our government could use that as a justification to creating a national health service. Uninsured, sick Americans loved this program as insurance companies paid their bills. The insurance companies are losing money and will drop out. I was born and raised in London, England. I know, first hand, how bad a national health system is so am against a similar program in the United States. See my campaign website, leveneforcongress.com for details. | |||
| Yes | Do you support requiring illegal immigrants to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? | ||
| I think we need a national debate on needing a Right to Work identity card. Illegal immigrants will always come here if they can make more money than at home. A wall won't stop them. It won't stop tons of illicit drugs and it won't stop people. If a Right to Work card stops employers hiring illegals, under threat of large fines and prison time, they'll stop hiring and all of the illegal immigrants will return to their home country. See my campaign website, leveneforcongress.com for details. | |||
| No | Do you support targeting suspected terrorists outside of official theaters of conflict? | ||
| Should the U.S use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the United States from possessing a nuclear weapon? | |||
| Sadly, our administrations and congress, over the past fifty years have had disastrous foreign policies. They believe that killing people is the way to peace. It isn't, as the families and friends of whomever we kill will hate us forever. We must find a better way or we'll have perpetual wars forever and one day, we'll lose a war and the general public will suffer. See my campaign website, leveneforcongress.com for details. | |||
| Yes | Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts? | ||
| See my campaign website, leveneforcongress.com for details. | |||
SpendingIndicate what federal spending levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one number per category; you can use a number more than once.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.
| Slightly Decrease | a) Agriculture | ||
| Slightly Decrease | b) Arts | ||
| Maintain Status | c) Defense | ||
| Greatly Decrease | d) Education | ||
| Slightly Decrease | e) Environment | ||
| Maintain Status | f) Homeland Security | ||
| Greatly Decrease | g) International aid | ||
| Maintain Status | h) Medical Research | ||
| Maintain Status | i) Scientific Research | ||
| Slightly Decrease | j) Space exploration | ||
| Greatly Decrease | k) United Nations | ||
| Greatly Decrease | l) Welfare | ||
| Slightly Decrease | a) Capital gains taxes | ||
| Eliminate | b) Corporate taxes | ||
| Slightly Decrease | c) Small business taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | d) Excise taxes (alcohol) | ||
| Greatly Increase | e) Excise taxes (cigarettes) | ||
| Maintain Status | f) Excise taxes (transportation fuel) | ||
| Maintain Status | g) Income taxes (low-income families) | ||
| Slightly Decrease | h) Income taxes (middle-income families) | ||
| Maintain Status | i) Income taxes (high-income families) | ||
| Maintain Status | j) Inheritance taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | k) Payroll taxes | ||
| See my campaign website, leveneforcongress.com for details. | |||
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