Dave Rosa's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Massachusetts Congressional Election 2020 Political Courage Test
| Pro-life | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| I would like to know and have it certified that all women below the age of 25 have been instructed on what state the baby is in and see a film of what actually happens to the baby during the abortion. | |||
| No | In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? | ||
| No | Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare? | ||
| If higher education dollars could be deverted to fund Social security or Medicare then perhaps. Higher education that produces Marxists is not a good return on investment. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| Yes | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| If required. But, what good is more defense spending if the country is being defeated and destroyed from within? | |||
| Yes | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| Yes | Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| No | Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19? | ||
| These answers are easily misunderstood without some understanding of economics, monetary policy, history and Banking. Covid-19 is a good example of something allowed to destroy an economy when it should not. | |||
| No | Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards? | ||
| States, the 50 laboratories of democracy, should be allowed to carefully guide education standards with the consent of the parents regarding what is taught. | |||
| No | Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)? | ||
| No | Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| No | Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| We have a lot of gun control now, we are already well into infringing on the right to keep and bear arms. The transport of arms across states is out of control and needs revision | |||
| Yes | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")? | ||
| No | Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19? | ||
| Businesses are free enterprise - overly regulated now. The Government needs to let businesses determine their own fate in the market place. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border? | ||
| Yes | Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? | ||
| I would also support expanding the process for review of applications to accommodate those that have lived here for extended periods of time and other adjustments to accommodate the needs of the nation. | |||
| Yes | Should the United States use military force to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a weapon of mass destruction (for example: nuclear, biological, chemical)? | ||
| Yes | Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts? | ||
| These questions are way late in the game and any solution now is difficult to determine. The horse is out of the barn, a bell cannot be unrung. | |||
| No | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| I understand the concepts and value of free trade however, I do not believe "free trade" is operating properly in our current circumstance. I can enjoy products made with cheap labor but the country of origin doesn't have to meet our air quality standards. | |||
| Constituent service and the interests of the people of Massachusetts and the interests of the nation. Support the reopening of the economy which will generate the revenue required for many important programs. It is clear now that we can not outrun this virus. It is time to stand and face it, it won't be easy and there will be losses. We have faced difficult changes in the past and we will again. We have learned a lot in the past few months lets put those lessons to work and get back to work. |
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