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Marianne Williamson's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Marianne Williamson did not provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2024 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.

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Issue Positions

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  • "Codify Roe v. Wade into a federal law" (marianne2024.com)
  • "The Williamson Administration will support the following policies in order to protect and benefit women: Appointing federal judges and Supreme Court judges who acknowledge Roe v. Wade as the law of the land, and support the Constitutional right to Privacy." (marianne2024.com)
  • "The devastating decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to abandon its duty to protect a woman’s fundamental rights and overturn Roe v. Wade has had a devastating impact on millions of women across the U.S. The Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization abandons nearly five decades of precedence and marks the very first time that the Supreme Court has taken away a fundamental right." (marianne2024.com)
  • "They overturned Roe v. Wade. They ended Affirmative Action. Now they've rejected Biden's student loan forgiveness plan. Today's SCOTUS works to proactively diminish the rights and opportunities of the people of the United States." (x.com)
  • "Eliminate the cap on taxation of income for Social Security" (marianne2024.com)
  • "Increase Social Security benefits, particularly to close the gap between male and female recipients. Raising children is unpaid labor, and women should not be financially penalized for this as we age. The work of building a family is as hard, as significant, and as beneficial to society and the economy as any other form of labor. Social security benefits should reflect this." (marianne2024.com)
  • "It is true that there could be problems with Social Security funding down the line, but they are quite easily solved by making some changes, such as eliminating the cap on income subject to Social Security payroll tax. That simple modification can keep the system solvent indefinitely, and even allow an increase in benefits to financially protect our seniors and others in need." (marianne2024.com)
  • "Under no circumstances should we put Social Security at risk. We need to protect this successful and compassionate program that retiring Americans have relied on for nearly eighty-five years." (marianne2024.com)
  • "Enact fair taxes on the wealthy, corporations, and Wall Street, and reduce taxes on working people. The richest people in America increased their wealth by a total of $6.5 trillion in 2021. The total wealth of the 1% reached a record $45.9 trillion by the end of 2021, and these fortunes increased by more than $12 trillion, or more than a third, during the course of the pandemic." (marianne2024.com)
  • "Protect the middle-class from tax hikes while repealing the 2017 Trump tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy." (marianne2024.com)
  • "Roll back tax cuts to the wealthy, including restoring the estate tax to estates over $5 million." (marianne2024.com)
  • "Why are we talking about lowering stimulus checks for the middle class and poor, but not increasing the tax rate for billionaires?" (x.com)
  • "Enact fair taxes on the wealthy, corporations, and Wall Street, and reduce taxes on working people. The richest people in America increased their wealth by a total of $6.5 trillion in 2021. The total wealth of the 1% reached a record $45.9 trillion by the end of 2021, and these fortunes increased by more than $12 trillion, or more than a third, during the course of the pandemic." (marianne2024.com)
  • "How can billionaires have a problem with paying a tax that won’t diminish the quality of their own life in the slightest way, and that will go to improve the quality of life for millions of others? #WealthTax" (x.com)
  • "This week alone Elon Musk's fortune grew by $36 billion, yet he goes out full blast to criticize a proposed wealth tax on billionaires. Kinda makes you want to tax him a whole lot more, doesn't it?" (x.com)
  • "Why are we talking about lowering stimulus checks for the middle class and poor, but not increasing the tax rate for billionaires?" (x.com)
  • "Instead of repealing Roe v. Wade, SCOTUS should be repealing Citizens United. The undue influence of money on our system is destroying our democracy. We have to stop this." (x.com)
  • "SCOTUS Citizens United decision continues to do irreparable harm to our democracy, allowing corporate and billionaire money time and time again to suppress the will of the people. Overriding the undue influence of money on our politics is the greatest moral imperative of our time" (x.com)
  • "The undue influence of money on our politics is the cancer underlying all the other cancers. With the current SCOTUS we won’t be able to overturn Citizens United anytime soon, but we need to work towards a Constitutional amendment to establish public funding for federal campaigns" (x.com)
  • "We’re going to need a constitutional amendment to override Citizens United and get money out of politics. The undue influence of corporate money on our politics is the cancer underlying all other cancers. It’s in our hands now." (x.com)
  • "End prosecutor immunity." (marianne2024.com)
  • "End qualified immunity." (marianne2024.com)
  • "The George Floyd Policing Act doesn’t go nearly far enough - doesn’t require substantially longer or even better training, doesn’t prioritize non-violent methods of deescalation, doesn’t seek to investigate infiltration of police by white supremacist groups. It’s only a band aid." (x.com)
  • "There’s something inherently & fundamentally flawed about our system of policing in the United States. Police are not being trained to "keep the peace," but to act as though they’re practically an occupying army. The system should be demolished and replaced." (x.com)
  • "Cut waste in the military. Big business dominates our military as it does so many other sectors. Corporate lobbyists push for expensive weapons systems of dubious value to our defense. While I favor a strong defense, I oppose wasting taxpayers’ money on boondoggles. Force projection to every corner of the globe is expensive and counterproductive." (marianne2024.com)
  • "We should cut our defense spending by at least 20% and audit every penny spent by the Pentagon." (x.com)
  • "NY Magazine calls me a "peacemonger"...says my views "highly unusual" for "deep permanent defense-spending cuts & complete reorientation of international relations to focus on conflict prevention." That I "challenge mainstream views of America’s role in the world." IMAGINE THAT!" (x.com)
  • "They pass massive tax cuts for the richest in one day. They pass massive defense spending bills that profit the military-industrial-complex in one day. But when it comes to the health and education of our citizens it’s like "Oh no no, we can’t possibly spend that much that fast!" (x.com)
  • "$.54 of every $ is spent on defense-related activity. Main political justification for defense expenditure is defense industry creates so many jobs. But $ invested in education & infrastructure actually brings a greater ROI. We can transition from a war economy to a peace economy" (x.com)
  • "Establish a Green New Deal, creating millions of jobs repairing America's infrastructure, building high-speed trains, and creating a renewable energy system." (votesmart.org)
  • "There’s actually more money to be made from investment in education and infrastructure then there is to be made from investment in war. A shift from a war economy to a peace economy would expand, not limit our economy." (x.com)
  • "Transforming our energy sector is of course a critical component. America must step up and be the leader in the clean energy transition, not only to save our planet but to economically revitalize our country. Our continued reliance on fossil fuels – coal, oil and natural gas – is holding back a new, clean energy revolution that will benefit our economy, environment, and collective public health." (marianne2024.com)
  • "I will lead the effort to stop this unethical madness. Individual homebuyers should be given legal priority over Wall Street companies when they are trying to purchase a home, with investment firms substantially taxed for any efforts to buy up entire neighborhoods, drive up real estate prices, leaving hard working Americans unable to purchase a place to live. With millions of vacant homes in America – and 600,000 homeless people – the gap between what is right, and what is currently happening, could not be starker. I will launch within the Department of Housing and Urban Development a massive public-private mobilization to rebuild and restore homes that are affordable and accessible to every citizen." (marianne2024.com)
  • "In my proposed Economic Bill of Rights, number 5 is the right to good, affordable housing." (x.com)
  • "The same is true for investments in education, in public housing, in energy efficiency, in public transportation – the more we invest in what’s best for people, the better we are all served and the less burden we all carry." (marianne2024.com)
  • "Throughout the country, the lack of affordable housing has reached crisis levels. But the housing crisis, like our healthcare crisis, and our environmental crisis, is simply the spawn of an underlying crisis which is vulture capitalism." (marianne2024.com)
  • "A living wage in American cities today is so far beyond our current federal minimum wage, that it leaves a third of our workforce without the ability to find a place to live. As soon as I enter the White House, I will sign an executive order that any worker in the public or private sector who is paid by way of a federal contract will be paid a living wage." (marianne2024.com)
  • "After inflation, people making $7.25 minimum wage are earning less now than they were 60 yrs ago. The minimum wage hasn't been raised in 13 yrs, the longest gap govt. has gone without upping it since it the system was introduced in 1938. That's basically a war on the poor." (x.com)
  • "An unregulated market has done more to create inflation than has anything else. It leaves us in a situation where we have have no capacity to absorb an emergency, with all sacrifice left to the average person to just deal with." (x.com)
  • "Very targeted spending in particular areas actually fight inflation. And monopolization and corporate greed are its main cause." (x.com)
  • "Eliminate all interest on student loans and forgive all federal and privately held student debt. Students are too often burdened with school loans that hold them back from following their dreams. Forgiving all student debt will allow students to work in a career they love, launch a business, or buy a home." (marianne2024.com)
  • "Forgiving all federal student loan debt is an economic stimulant that would cost half a trillion less than the 2017 tax cut which gave 83 cents of every dollar to the richest corporations and individuals and will never pay for itself." (x.com)
  • "If they’re not going to do $2k a month and they’re not going to do student loan debt cancellation and they’re not going to do an immediate $15 minimum wage hike, how do Democrats expect to get enough people to vote for them in ‘22? We’re on a disastrous path here..." (x.com)
  • "We should cancel student loan debt. All of it." (x.com)
  • "Urge Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act (H.R. 4)." (marianne2024.com)
  • "Eliminating unfounded restrictions on eligible voters, such as voter picture ID’s." (marianne2024.com)
  • "I am running as a Democrat who feels that the party must reclaim its function as an advocate and protector of what is meant to be the true governing force in the United States: We the People. To me, that is the soul of the Democratic party, and the soul of our country. There is only one way to override the nefarious influence of the corporatist, anti-democratic trend in American politics today. That is through massive citizen engagement, a massive renaissance of political consciousness among the American people, through which millions of citizens will become the societal immune system that casts out the opportunistic infection of authoritarian corporatist forces." (marianne2024.com)
  • "Urge Congress to pass the For the People Act (H.R. 1) to expand voting rights, reduce the influence of money in politics, create new ethics rules for federal officeholders, institute Campaign Finance Reform, and ban partisan gerrymandering when redistricting." (marianne2024.com)
  • "Establish a Green New Deal, creating millions of jobs repairing America's infrastructure, building high-speed trains, and creating a renewable energy system." (votesmart.org)
  • "Transforming our energy sector is of course a critical component. America must step up and be the leader in the clean energy transition, not only to save our planet but to economically revitalize our country. Our continued reliance on fossil fuels – coal, oil and natural gas – is holding back a new, clean energy revolution that will benefit our economy, environment, and collective public health." (marianne2024.com)
  • "We must ban all fracking and revoke drilling licenses on public lands. The greening of the economy has already created millions of new jobs – there are twice as many people working in the solar industry than in coal. The best way to decarbonize is to put a price on carbon; this incentivizes people to find ways to use less carbon." (marianne2024.com)
  • "We must declare a national climate emergency and end all fossil fuel subsidies to eliminate the use of carbon from the economy to slow global warming. This will create millions of good paying green jobs in renewable energy (solar, wind and water power), architecture and building (green buildings), energy-efficient vehicles (electric cars), new public transit systems, and much more." (marianne2024.com)
  • "At the very moment when we should be ramping down fossil fuel infrastructure, we're ramping it up. America needs to make a u-turn." (x.com)
  • "End all new oil and gas leases in federal lands and waters. Plan the phaseout of existing oil and gas leases on federal lands." (marianne2024.com)
  • "Transition away from fossil fuel energy and halt all new fossil fuel projects. We must eliminate all fossil fuel subsidies and transfer those funds into climate investments by the federal government, and invest in wind and solar energy." (marianne2024.com)
  • "We must ban all fracking and revoke drilling licenses on public lands. The greening of the economy has already created millions of new jobs – there are twice as many people working in the solar industry than in coal. The best way to decarbonize is to put a price on carbon; this incentivizes people to find ways to use less carbon." (marianne2024.com)
  • "Close to 90% of Americans want federal background checks. A Williamson administration will expand background checks, and end the gun show loopholes." (marianne2024.com)
  • "Eliminate the sale of assault rifles and semi-automatic weapons, ban bump stocks, high-capacity magazines, and 3-D printing of firearms. Assault weapons are used as weapons of war, and should not be sold to private citizens. 74% of Americans want to raise the minimum legal age to buy any guns to 21. In accordance with the ban on these weapons and accessories, the age to purchase guns that are legal under these laws should be raised unilaterally to 21. There should not be an age discrepancy in the type of firearm an individual can buy." (marianne2024.com)
  • "The vast majority of Americans want "Red Flag" laws implemented. With the understanding that not every person(s) with a mental disorder is violent, a Williamson administration will strengthen "Red Flag" laws by passing Extreme Risk Protection Orders nationwide, allowing family members and law enforcement to seek court permission to temporarily remove guns from a person in danger of harming himself or others." (marianne2024.com)
  • "While the Second Amendment, just like every other Amendment in our Bill of Rights, must remain sacrosanct, our right to bear arms does not come without rules, regulations, human decency, or common sense. The second and third words in the Second Amendment, after all, are "well-regulated." Americans have no way of knowing the consequences, several years from now, of generations of young children going to school every day praying that they will not be shot. Gun violence is the largest cause of death among America’s children. This situation is an emergency, and a President Williamson will treat it as such." (marianne2024.com)
  • "A solid majority of Americans are in favor of #MedicareForAll. Someday the US government is going to represent the will of the people and give it to them (insurance and pharmaceutical company donations be damned)." (x.com)
  • "The way to *ease* medical debt is to *cancel* medical debt. It shouldn’t even exist. #MedicareForAll" (x.com)
  • "While our entire medical debt is $88 billion, the top five pharmaceutical companies in America made over $80 billion in profit last year alone. This is morally unacceptable. Getting sick should not be a death sentence or a prelude to bankruptcy. We must join the entire rest of the developed world and guarantee healthcare to all through a comprehensive Medicare for All single-payer program." (marianne2024.com)
  • "With 500,000 Americans going into medical debt every year; 85 million Americans uninsured or underinsured; 68,000 Americans dying every year from lack of healthcare; and 18 million Americans every year unable to fulfill their medical prescriptions, a Marianne Williamson Presidency will use the full power of her administration to further the creation of Universal Healthcare in America." (marianne2024.com)
  • "Paid family leave in the richest country in the world shouldn’t be some fantasy, it should be a reality. I’ve been saying it for 30 years." (x.com)
  • "Paid vacation and sick leave for all employees, even part-timers who cannot work more than part-time hours due to disability or other limitations. Every industrialized nation but ours guarantees this right." (marianne2024.com)
  • "The Pregnancy Workers Fairness Act will go into effect on Tuesday, protecting pregnant women from legally being fired or retaliated if they need/request reasonable accommodations due to their pregnancy or postpartum status. An important step forward. (Now paid family leave please)" (x.com)
  • "Universal healthcare, free public university and tech school tuition, free childcare, paid family leave, guaranteed sick pay and a living wage - all are moderate positions in every other advanced democracy. They are the core of fundamental economic reform." (x.com)
  • "Government that cannot bring itself to cap insulin at $35 a month is a government that is failing its people." (x.com)
  • "Future drug development conducted by the National Institutes of Health to eliminate the profit incentive and give the government the patents to produce the drugs if prices are excessively high." (marianne2024.com)
  • "Reduce prices of prescription drugs by restoring the government’s right to negotiate prices. If pharmaceutical companies do not bring prices down to reasonable levels, the Williamson administration will exercise its March In rights under the Bayh Dole legislation allowing the government to give patent rights for drugs developed with government funds to another company that will offer lower prices." (marianne2024.com)
  • "The idea that any person in America is having to ration their insulin so Big Pharma can make more money - and Big Pharma even sues a State for trying to make insulin cheap and available to its poor - is so morally corrupt that it should be an awakening to every American" (x.com)
  • "Another canard is that building a wall across our entire southern border is needed. In fact, unauthorized immigrants are increasingly entering the United States perfectly legally, then simply overstaying visas. No increase in border security will impact this most common route into our nation. Yes, we can invest in smart border security when it’s actually needed, while also looking at underlying causes of the displacement of so many people south of our border, including our long failed war on drugs, which has created rampant crime and violence among our neighbors. A wall is expensive, impractical, and unlikely to address any of the real challenges we face." (marianne2024.com)
  • "Reject the use of facial recognition surveillance programs that are riddled with racial discrimination issues." (marianne2024.com)
  • "Reject the use of unproven and dangerous extreme vetting analytics and tactics, and the use of surveillance data to prevent people from coming into the country based on biased and flawed information." (marianne2024.com)
  • "The president continuing to build the wall on the Southern border is a betrayal of a campaign promise. It's also a desperate bid for approval by the border hardliners who want a president to be "tough on the border." (x.com)
  • "Support comprehensive immigration reform and provide a timely, ethical, transparent, and straightforward path to citizenship for all immigrants who have not violated any of the serious laws of this country, living in the United States." (marianne2024.com)
  • "I fully support DACA. Our dreamers represent the best about our future. I would update the registration date of the 1929 Registry Act to 1/1/2022, restore Section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which expired in April 2001, allowing people who have approved petitions to apply for their Green Card upon payment of a fine for the filing fee." (marianne2024.com)
  • "Abolish ICE and establish an Office of Citizenship, Refugees, and Immigration Services under the Department of Labor. Redirect all funding to processing centers that connect/provide immigrants and refugees with resources and housing, work, and healthcare upon arrival." (marianne2024.com)
  • "End Family Separation. The Federal government has a moral responsibility to keep families together." (marianne2024.com)
  • "Increased sanctions are a form of economic violence; they’re a way to continue hostilities without doing so militarily. They will be responded to. The president’s speech does not represent mutual de-escalation. We didn’t go over the cliff but neither did we pull away from it." (x.com)
  • "Maximum pressure sanctions imposed on Iran by the Trump administration have thrown 10 million Iranians into poverty." (x.com)
  • "The U.S. toughened economic sanctions as we withdrew from Iran Nuclear Deal & Trump says we’ll now toughen them further. Sanctions punish the Iranian people, not their govt. People can’t get medicine they need, feed their children or meet their basic needs" (x.com)
  • "If you’re about to think "Oh no, I might not be able to get this or that at the grocery store," take a moment to consider how US sanctions have effected people in Cuba, Iran & Venezuela. Millions of people for whom life has been made so hard. These are ways we can grow from this." (x.com)
  • "Constantly allocating more money for Boeing, Northrup Grumman & Raytheon may or may not mean more help for Ukraine. The same "foreign policy experts" that perpetrated the disasters in Iraq & Afghanistan are parroting the same absurdities that more military spending saves the day." (x.com)
  • "For the rest of the world, the most dangerous things about American foreign-policy in the modern era have been our reckless behavior in Iraq, Afghanistan and even Ukraine. For us, the most dangerous thing is our continuous refusal to look back at our mistakes & learn from them." (x.com)
  • "If we’re supporting Ukraine militarily but not simultaneously promoting whatever possibilities exist for an off-ramp, how are we not flirting with nuclear disaster?" (x.com)
  • "Sending cluster bombs to Ukraine is a terrible idea. An inhumane decision. Even in the midst of war, we must hold onto our humanity." (x.com)
  • "Facebook should be broken up into itty bitty tiny pieces." (x.com)
  • "Facebook’s monopolistic influence on the news is criminal even if it isn’t illegal. And tech companies need to be regulated by a Fairness Doctrine applicable to the realities of the 21st-century." (x.com)
  • "Have you noticed how often the right people are called up for Congressional hearings, then absolutely nothing happens to reflect what Congress learned from them? This is an example. Why is Congress so afraid of Facebook?" (x.com)
  • "No one person should have the power that Mark Zuckerberg has. No one company should have the power that Facebook has. No money-making entity should have the power to so affect the world." (x.com)

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