Tue Phan's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Tue Phan has refused to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2014 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests.
Issue Positions
For Presidential and Congressional candidates who refuse to provide voters with their positions, Vote Smart has researched their public records to determine their likely responses. These issue positions are from 2014.
- "Roe v. Wade has been decided since 1973. We can continue the endless debate on this issue from the pro-life or pro-choice perspective. Or we can adopt a more practical approach, regardless of our belief, as how to reduce the number of early pregnancies and abortions." (votesmart.org)
- "We need to repair our economy and restore consumer confidence. We must strengthen the economy by creating jobs (in particular jobs that help increase productivity in the private sector), lower taxes and reduce the costs of doing business.We need to reduce federal spending, observe fiscal discipline, and balance the national budget." (votesmart.org)
- "We need to reduce federal spending, observe fiscal discipline, and balance the national budget." (votesmart.org)
- "Powers not enumerated in the Constitution are left to the States, and thus to the people. Education of the children should be left within the province of the States, the local Boards of Education, and the parents." (votesmart.org)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- "Law abiding citizens have the constitutional rights to own weapons. Due to the inherent high-risk nature of guns, buying and carrying guns must be subject to background check and mandatory safety training and liability course. A database of convicted felons and mentally impaired individuals should be established." (votesmart.org)
- "The Affordable Care Act requires everybody to have health insurance. But it does not address the high and rising cost of health care.When health insurance is tied to employment, it will raise the cost of doing business for the employers, making businesses less competitive. This in turn will affect jobs creation, leading to fewer jobs, and resulting in higher unemployment.People should have the right to decide for themselves when to buy health insurance, and to make their own decisions without being penalized." (votesmart.org)
- "To begin, it is simply wrong and superfluous, to frame the issue as pro or anti-immigration, or even pro or anti-immigrant. Political posturing on this crisis is the wrong approach that only clouds the issue. It is not a Democrat or a Republican issue. It is a national issue. Second, the issue is not the ages or the genders of the aliens, but whether they have made an illegal entry. Those who entered without inspection are removable and subject to expedite removal which is the process by which an alien is deported or removed without having to appear before an immigration judge." (votesmart.org)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- "Our senior citizens paid into Social Security and Medicare with their life long savings income. For the majority of them, this is their only financial protection safety net. As a society, we have an obligation to honor the society's promises by ensuring that the programs are solvent and sustainable into the future." (votesmart.org)
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