Lori Hopkins-Cavanagh's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Due to a later filing deadline, a lack of contact information, or other circumstances delaying entry into our database, Lori Hopkins-Cavanagh was not directly invited to take the 2014 Political Courage Test. Lori Hopkins-Cavanagh is still welcome to submit the test at any time.
Issue Positions
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- "Long overdue, the United States Tax Code needs to be reformed. Burdensome tax regulations imposed by our broken tax code are too complicated for most Americans and small business.D.C. lawmakers use the tax code to pick the winners and the losers. The redistribution machine has run aground and is driving small businesses and middle class taxpayers into extinction. The role of government is not to create tax policies that determine how our economy will function. The role of the tax code should be simple: to fund the basic constitutional tenets of Federal government.Lori supports replacing this broken system with a low-rate flat tax that would eliminate the preferential treatment we see today. A flat tax would eliminate every form of unfair double taxation in the United States, including the capital gains, dividend, estate, gift, and interest tax.Lori is open to options that eliminate the burden of complexity and regulation surrounding the current tax code. We need a tax code that is competitive in the global economy and reduces the burden on small businesses and families." (votesmart.org)
- "A fiscal conservative, Lori will fight to reduce reckless Federal spending and regulations that are hurting hard working middle class people and small businesses in Connecticut. Washington D.C. has become a booming, redistribution machine; stripping taxpayers and small businesses of local wealth.The Federal government must be limited to taxation necessary to provide the services authorized by the Constitution. Our local, hard earned money must be kept in the pockets of the taxpayers who earned it and the businesses that built it! As a middle class, self-employed small business owner, since the age of 25; Lori is a voice for the middle class, for the rainmakers, for the job creators, and for the opportunity seekers - who are the backbone of our free society, our State and Country." (votesmart.org)
- "Absolutely not. I advocate for abolishing the Federal Department of Education entirely. Common Core, Race to The Top and every Federalized program has been a failure. American students are guinea pigs in an unconstitutional experiment. Testing is not teaching and Common Core is about 16 Billion Dollars, not education. Decades of federal education reform have had no effect on improving educational outcomes. Common and collective both start with c and in order for collective to succeed centralized control over education is imperative. I believe in school vouchers, competition, choice and parental empowerment, not brainwashing and data mining our children."
- "Lori has been a vocal activist in opposition to the 16 billion dollar, 'one size fits all' Federal education and data-mining curriculum called Common Core State Standards. This boondoggle, funded in part by the 2009 Stimulus Package, is an unconstitutional effort to completely strip parents and local school districts of control and place our children's education and future in the hands of national non-profit entities operating outside of Connecticut's legislative oversight. Passed without the knowledge of taxpayers and parents, CCSS is more money, more bureaucracy and more government intervention that will only serve to make corporations rich and erode our privacy and our education standards.Innovative and affordable higher education solutions are needed in Connecticut. Lori will work to lessen the cost and provide better access to education for our college students. She will actively advocate for increased full-time career and entrepreneurship opportunities for our high school and college grads in the Second Congressional District." (votesmart.org)
- Today, alternative energies such as wind, solar, and geothermal provide us with the opportunity to move toward energy self-sufficiency. We must reduce our dependence on unstable and hostile countries by developing our own energy right here in America with new green technologies that will create jobs.
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- Gun control laws only restrict access to responsible gun ownership. Stricter laws do nothing to lessen illegal possession and use of firearms. The facts are clear. Common sense should trump the manipulation of tragedy that is being used to disarm peaceful citizens (votesmart.org)
- President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is legislation that resulted in a Federal takeover of our entire health care system. (votesmart.org)
- "As the daughter of an immigrant mother, Lori supports legal immigration and embraces diversity. She does not support illegal immigration or amnesty that jeopardizes the integrity of our laws and our constitution. The welfare of legal citizens, workers, students, businesses and veterans takes precedence to amnesty policies designed to increase the autocratic powers of the Federal government, increase our tax burden and increase unemployment. It is the duty of the Federal government to protect our borders and that is a problem that must be addressed." (votesmart.org)
- "Lori will protect our Civil Liberties to stop Federal abuse of power, especially violation of privacy and the targeting of citizens and groups by Federal departments and non-profit organizations hired by Federal departments. Lori strongly opposes social engineering of our society and changes to the Civil Rights Act that forces equal outcomes through social injustice." (votesmart.org)
- You are asking for my personal sentiment? There is nothing more that I want for my gay step son than to see him married to the man he loves and who my family loves, and for them to live happily ever after. I support their relationship wholeheartedly and hope I can lose fifteen pounds before October. Do you support Gay Marriage, John?June 12 at 10:03pm (www.facebook.com)
- "Our use of troops to support unjustified military actions, like Obama's two troop surges in Afghanistan, will not get Lori's vote. A well trained and equipped military is essential, but the blood of our brave men and women is being sacrificed to appease the foreign opinion. Our military objectives are undefined and ambiguous at best, and a cause of great concern, as is the fact that over 200 of our highest ranking and most experienced military brass have been fired since Obama took office."Diplomacy in the name of civil liberty, human rights and freedom is a worthwhile foreign policy investment for our country, but long term military occupation, nation building and the failed notion of buying favor, is not." (votesmart.org)
- "Our Social Security system was originally structured to cover around 53,000 people and a shorter life expectancy. Americans are living longer, thanks to advances in medicine, and Social Security now covers 57 million people at a cost of $809 billion. Social Security's current unfunded liability of $20.5 trillion amounts to $148,000 per household! Fewer workers are paying into this system. If continued, the cost of benefits will grow faster than our economy.We must keep our promise to the millions of Americans who depend on Social Security. Congress cannot keep 'kicking this can down the road'. It is fiscally irresponsible not to address necessary reforms for solvency." (votesmart.org)
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