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Elijah Manley's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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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 2020.

  • Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? "Pro-Choice" (votesmart.org)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? "Yes" (votesmart.org)
  • "Decrease military spending and do not invade Iran." (votesmart.org)
  • "I will direct the Office of Management & Budget to slash the military budget in half for the fiscal year, and reduce it by 15% every year until it reaches a minimal of $200b." (elijahmanley.com)
  • "We have hundreds of military bases all over the world. It's time to close them all, and withdraw our troops from every region they are occupying." (elijahmanley.com)
  • "Lol our economy is about to collapse. We should probably INVEST in our INFRASTRUCTURE. Like CHINA does." (twitter.com)
  • "We need more funding for our crumbled infrastructure system." (votesmart.org)
  • "With a program similar to the Green new Deal, we will rebuild roads, highways, bridges, and a establish a 21st century rail and transportation system. this will create million of jobs." (elijahmanley.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "A single standardized system that only rewards a very limited skill set and personality type is hardly a system that is going to work for everyone, let alone most people. If we don't force kids to go to school, the end result is not a nation of uneducated people, but a system that allows for many alternative means of education outside of the autocratic schooling system." (www.facebook.com)
  • "cut common core, and increase education spending." (votesmart.org)
  • "I have a 7-year plan that will move us away from fossil fuels, into a 21-st century clean energy powered society, while meeting the United Nation's 2030 sustainability agenda." (elijahmanley.com)
  • "It's time to implement a green house gas tax to punish fossil fuel companies for their disastrous pollution." (elijahmanley.com)
  • Do you generally support gun-control legislation? "Yes" (votesmart.org)
  • Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")? "No" (votesmart.org)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "We will offer citizenship to all undocumented people and close all the concentration camps." (elijahmanley.com)
  • "Allow all to come to america and have a better life, especially children." (votesmart.org)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Gtfo of the middle east." (twitter.com)
  • "We have hundreds of military bases all over the world. It's time to close them all, and withdraw our troops from every region they are occupying." (elijahmanley.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
This candidate has responded to a Political Courage Test in a previous election. As a continued effort to provide the American public with factual information on candidates running for public office, these archived responses are made available here.
Pro-choice Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
The right of wemon to make their own health decisions without government intervention is necessary in a civil society.
Yes In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
Yes In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
Spending too much on defense while 40 Million young Americans are basically starving.
Yes Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
Remove money from politics.
No Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes?
Yes Do you support alternatives to incarceration for certain non-violent offenders such as mandatory counseling or substance abuse treatment?
No Do you support mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders?
Let's decriminalize marijuana. Executive Pardon for nonviolent drug offenders.
Yes Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
No Do you support lowering taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
Yes Do you support providing tax incentives to businesses for the purpose of job creation?
Do you generally support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
No Do you support building the Keystone XL pipeline?
Yes Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
Yes Do you support increased regulations on the hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") industry?
Ban offshore oil drilling or fracking nationwide. It has devastating effects on our environment, and the effects of climate change are taking toll.
Yes Do you believe that human activity is contributing to climate change?
Yes Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
Ban offshore oil drilling or fracking nationwide. It has devastating effects on our environment, and the effects of climate change are taking toll. I don't understand why the federal government is ignoring a supermajority of scientists who are telling us about climate change and ita devastating effects.
Yes Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
We can regulate guns while protecting the second amendment, and I believe President Obama has not been hard with this.
No Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
No Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
Should we require Europeans to return to Europe before being allowed to stay in north America?
Yes Do you support same-sex marriage?
Marriage is a right to all Americans according to the constitution. Religious bigots need to sit down.
Do you support increased American intervention in Iraq and Syria beyond air support?
No Should the U.S use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the United States from possessing a nuclear weapon?
Yes Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts?

SpendingIndicate what federal spending levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one number per category; you can use a number more than once.TaxesIndicate what federal tax levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one number per category; you can use a number more than once.

Slightly Increase a) Agriculture
Maintain Status b) Arts
Greatly Decrease c) Defense
Greatly Increase d) Education
Greatly Increase e) Environment
Maintain Status f) Homeland Security
Slightly Decrease g) International aid
Slightly Increase h) Medical Research
Slightly Increase i) Scientific Research
Maintain Status j) Space exploration
Maintain Status k) United Nations
Slightly Increase l) Welfare
m) Other or expanded categories
Maintain Status a) Capital gains taxes
Greatly Increase b) Corporate taxes
Slightly Decrease c) Small business taxes
Maintain Status d) Excise taxes (alcohol)
Maintain Status e) Excise taxes (cigarettes)
Slightly Increase f) Excise taxes (transportation fuel)
Greatly Decrease g) Income taxes (low-income families)
Maintain Status h) Income taxes (middle-income families)
Greatly Increase i) Income taxes (high-income families)
Maintain Status j) Inheritance taxes
Maintain Status k) Payroll taxes
l) Other or expanded categories
My first executive orders when elected will be: 1. Ending all curfew laws imposed on minors 2. Close Guantanamo bay order 3. Decriminalizing marijuana and releasing it's offenders 4. Banning offshore oil drilling 5. Custom 20 or 30% tax increase on the wealthy 6. Cutting aid to Israel in half 7. Removing remainder of our troops from middle east while keep ground troops for ISIS fighting 8. Executive Order making college education free 9. Executive Order making healthcare free for all 10. Executive Order closing the NSA's mass illegal spying programs and Pardon for Edward Snowden and all other whistleblowers
Education Definitely will focus on making universal education happen if I am elected President of the United States. Youth Rights I will liberate youth, focus on taking adultism or ageism from government and laws Tax Reform, Economy, and Climate Change, Social Justice. I will end the militarization of police departments by ordering the Department of Homeland Security to cut all of it's programs that give police departments military equipment and to immediately seize the distribution of those weapons.

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