S. Malik's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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S. Malik refused to tell citizens where he stands on any of the issues addressed in the 2012 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart, national media, and prominent political leaders.
Issue Positions
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- S. Malik. Issues: Tax & Monetary Reforms. 26 June 2012. "These things above will bolster the US Dollar, lowering costs, helping to balance our Trade Deficit, and prepare us for the next step, Repeal of the 16th Amendment, and eliminating taxes on personal revenue." (www.malik2012.com)
- S. Malik. Issue Position: Jobs - Jobs Jobs!!! 1 January 2012. "Granted, the public sector (aka Big Government) cannot "create" jobs that are sustainable, since the money for those jobs come from us - the citizens - through taxation. The need is to create jobs in the private sector. This means creating a beneficial environment for those with the means to launch new businesses and grow existing ones to invest in them, thus creating jobs, rather than penalizing them with more and more regulations and taxes." (votesmart.org)
- S. Malik. Issue Position: Tax & Monetary Reforms. 1 January 2012. "We need to cut Federal Spending 2% annually across the board - no pick and choose - and do that for the next 10 years." (votesmart.org)
- S. Malik. Issues: Jobs Jobs Jobs!!!. 26 June 2012. "Our nation has one of the highest corporate tax and individual tax rates in the world. If we were to cut our corporate tax rate in half, counter-intuitive as it seems, our nation would see a huge growth in business growth, job growth, and tax revenues would actually grow higher." (www.malik2012.com)
- S. Malik. Issue Position: Education. 1 January 2012. "Here in the 13th Congressional District, we have seen repeated failures of a federal based system controlling and managing our education system. A solid and strong education is the vital base to a successful life and a thriving nation. We need to think radically, return control of the education of our children to local authorities with STATE oversight, not Federal. If elected, I will seek the revocation of the Department of Education charter and return us to a Constitutional footing in regards to education. There exists a national association of state educators that could take over oversight of further advancements in education, but leaves the States autonomous in their managing educational funding and programs. All current funding of the Department of Education would stay within the States, for use by the States in determining their own educational goals and priorities." (votesmart.org)
- S. Malik. Issue Position: Energy. 1 January 2012. "We need to immediately approve and make way for the Keystone Pipeline to begin construction. This would have an immediate effect on prices at the pump, not because it will be adding immediate supplies, but because speculators will suddenly see a future availability and thus drive down futures. Though the experts will disagree, we saw the same effect when Bush pushed for a rescinding on the offshore drilling ban. Once signed, prices dropped significantly. They did not rise again until the Democratic Congress started to restrict access again" (votesmart.org)
- S. Malik. Issues: Energy. 26 June 2012. "Finally, I am in complete opposition to the former Cap & Trade legislation that Rep. David Scott voted YES on, and the attempts by the current administration to use departmental regulations to enact it defacto within the EPA. These are in no way Constitutional, and I will not subject my district's citizens or businesses to the taxation and increased power costs." (www.malik2012.com)
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