G. Galloway's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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G. Galloway has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2016 Political Courage Test.
Florida Congressional Election 2016 Political Courage Test
| No | In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending? | ||
| No | In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| No | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| Yes | Do you support lowering taxes as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| No | Do you support providing tax incentives to businesses for the purpose of job creation? | ||
| corporate welfare reform is as much needed as social welfare reform; however, not to be confused with the need to lower corporate tax to be competitive with the corporate tax levels with all the other industrialized countries to allow us to be more competitive and bring much needed value added jobs back to our community | |||
| Yes | Do you support building the Keystone XL pipeline? | ||
| No | 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? | ||
| No | Do you believe that human activity is contributing to climate change? | ||
| No | Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| No | Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| do not mess with the second amendment, we must have efficient background checks where ALL agencies are signing off on paper work . Do we need any legislation for knives and box cutters? How about enforcing the laws that are in place or ask Chicago how one city with the toughest gun laws has not been able to stop the 25 to 45 weekly shootings and murders they have within their city limits. | |||
| Yes | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")? | ||
| I have met so many small business owners who will not employ over 50 employees full time. This is a larger job killer than a failure for alternative forced insurance. Obamacare has been one of the largest reasons why many small businesses have failed to grow in size. Big corporate America can absorb this expense, small businesses can not. | |||
| Yes | Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? | ||
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| Yes | Do you support same-sex marriage? | ||
| I support the law of the land as said by the Supreme Court. We must live in a country that supports it's laws. We are a land of laws or we have anarchy. | |||
| Yes | Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts? | ||
| as long as we do not bail them out for poor decisions made. | |||
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.
| Maintain Status | a) Agriculture | ||
| Slightly Decrease | b) Arts | ||
| Greatly Increase | c) Defense | ||
| Slightly Increase | d) Education | ||
| Maintain Status | e) Environment | ||
| Greatly Increase | f) Homeland Security | ||
| Greatly Decrease | g) International aid | ||
| Maintain Status | h) Medical Research | ||
| Maintain Status | i) Scientific Research | ||
| Slightly Increase | j) Space exploration | ||
| Greatly Decrease | k) United Nations | ||
| Greatly Decrease | l) Welfare | ||
| Greatly Decrease | a) Capital gains taxes | ||
| Greatly Decrease | b) Corporate taxes | ||
| Greatly Decrease | c) Small business taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | d) Excise taxes (alcohol) | ||
| Maintain Status | e) Excise taxes (cigarettes) | ||
| Slightly Increase | f) Excise taxes (transportation fuel) | ||
| Maintain Status | g) Income taxes (low-income families) | ||
| Greatly Decrease | h) Income taxes (middle-income families) | ||
| Maintain Status | i) Income taxes (high-income families) | ||
| Eliminate | j) Inheritance taxes | ||
| Slightly Decrease | k) Payroll taxes | ||
| we need to get people back to working, too many people and companies are gaming the system. | |||
| we do not have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem in congress, we don't even have a budget and my company , household, and family are held to a budget with reviews. It's up to the Congress to control the purse strings. | |||
| 1) bring quality value added jobs back to our district ...reducing the corporate tax to a more world wide competitve schedule would bring additional jobs back to our communities 2)provide security to the citizens of the United States as per our constitution 3)provide funding for new infra structure and the maintaining and improvement of our existing and aging infrastructure |
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