John Hosta's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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John Hosta has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2018 Political Courage Test.
Illinois Congressional Election 2018 Political Courage Test
| Pro-life | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| This is an extremely divisive topic and one of the unfortunate consequences of this topic is the division of voters and government. Unfortunately, other issues of energy, health care, immigration, the deficit; almost by plan, become unresolved. I Am; generally pro-life. | |||
| Yes | In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? | ||
| Yes | In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending? | ||
| Yes, but not excessively. Our defense budget has doubled since 2001, not to mention that our National Debt of 21 trillion dollars is an enormous economic threat to our nation. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| Of course, since this is the very root of our political problems today. | |||
| No | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| No | Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| This is a propagated, nonsensical, unproven economic approach. Again, our 21 trillion dollar national debt provides the evidence that corporate tax cuts since 1960 has been largely unsuccessful. | |||
| No | Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards? | ||
| This is a state issue not a federal issue. The federal government must be required to stay out of our school system. Decisions like this should be done on the local levels with teachers and parents. | |||
| Yes | Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| Our energy construct is archaic. If Nickola Tesla believed he could illuminate the entire world 100 years ago with the available energy resources at his time, it comes to reason that our vehicles, modes of power, and energy efficiencies are dull. | |||
| No | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")? | ||
| This question seriously underscores the ignorance of our health care construct. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border? | ||
| No | Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? | ||
| If they qualify for citizenship, or legal status then I do not see the necessity of requiring them to return to their country of origin during the legalization process. | |||
| Yes | Should the United States use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a nuclear weapon? | ||
| No | Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support? | ||
| When in history has there ever been peace in the Middle East? Just because there is not an official war in the Middle East does not mean that killing and butchering of innocent people will ever cease. To believe that the United States could possibly achieve ?peace? in the Middle East through military intervention flys in the face of history. | |||
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