Christopher Castillo's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Christopher Castillo has refused to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2016 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.
Issue Positions
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- “With our obsolete and traffic jam-ridden freeway system, we need a better way to transport our product. I will promote federal funding of a Double Deck Freeway, in the interests of providing a traffic-less freeway in L.A.” (castillo4congress.com)
- “In Congress, I will work to find innovative new ways to built a better business climate for our country. Reaganomics will be my economic creed. I will cut taxes for both small businesses and big businesses in the job-creating manufacturing, energy, and shipping industries.” (castillo4congress.com)
- “I strongly oppose the Common Core, and will support measures empowering school choice while demanding accountability from both public and private schools.” (castillo4congress.com)
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- “Americans are realizing that the Affordable Care Act is not what it was hyped up to be, with long waits, massive gaps in coverage, and an expanded bureaucracy. We will innovate new ideas in healthcare, including increased funding for medical research and market-based solutions. I will fight to decentralize healthcare laws, so that states can experiment with different policies.” (castillo4congress.com)
- “I therefore support efforts to pass comprehensive immigration Amnesty, providing a path to citizenship to ALL eleven million undocumented among us, while securing the southern and northern borders, fixing our immigration bureaucracy, and stringently enforcing our laws.” (castillo4congress.com)
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- “When the United Nations cannot enforce international law, it falls to us to uphold it. I will work to increase our military power at home and abroad in all areas- conventional land power, naval power, cyber warfare, special operations, airpower, and more. American leadership is crucial for maintaining world order. With the winds of crisis blowing, we must act.” (castillo4congress.com)
- “Our Social Security and Medicare Systems are hallmarks of the government's social contract with American workers...Therefore, I will prioritize entitlement reform and work to find ways to make our entitlements fiscally sustainable.” (castillo4congress.com)
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