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Pete Glidewell III's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Pete Glidewell III has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2016 Political Courage Test.

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North Carolina Congressional Election 2016 Political Courage Test

Pro-choice Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
Pregnancy termination is sad reality in our society but should be seldom, safe and accessible when that choice is made. A woman should be able to terminate anytime with in the first three months for any reason and later in the event of risk to her life.
No In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
Unknown Position In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
I support revenue increases by protecting American Jobs First and promoting small business development that will increase employment. This will achieve the revenue we need to support non mandatory parts of the budget. A rise in the cap of Social Security/Medicare will allow proper funding of these programs for the future.
Yes Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
First of all I support transparency. Citizens should be able to know where funds supporting positions and candidates is coming from. Second of all, if corporations are people and people are restricted to $2700 per person in contributions then so should a corporation be restricted to that.
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?
A major concerns is the combination of mandatory minimum sentences and "for profit" prisons. These guarantee a people staying in jail longer than necessary in my opinion.
Yes Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
Yes Do you support providing tax incentives to businesses for the purpose of job creation?
Unknown Position Do you support lowering taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
I would provide an incentive to bring overseas profits home at a much lower rate. We should also be competitive with corporate tax structures with the rest of the world in order to keep our US companies here and bring foreign companies here.
Unknown Position Do you generally support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
States and the Federal Government should work together to make sure rural and poor district school systems have adequate school resources. We should also start pre elementary school as early as possible, especially with poor children, in order for them to start on equal footing.
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?
There are certain circumstances where fracking is not safe even thought the energy may be present. Proximity to water supply, depth of deposits, altitude changes within the horizontal drill and taking energy from under the boundaries of land of another owner are all concerns. The biggest concerns are the knowledge of chemicals in use and disposal of waste water.
Yes Do you believe that human activity is contributing to climate change?
Yes Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
We are doing this with supplying target for gas emissions from cars now. I think we need to be prudent in our transformation of our energy sources that we understand the reality of the danger as well as the ability to shift rapidly from one source to the other.
Unknown Position Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
I would support the restriction of guns for members of the terror watch list, the no fly list and for undocumented immigrants.
No Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
There are fixes that can be made but we can not truly evaluate it until the states accept the Medicaid expansion that will lower provider costs and resultant provider bills.
Unknown Position Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
They should only be eligible until they have paid taxes for a certain length of time, learned the language and maintained a clean record.
Yes Do you support same-sex marriage?
I also think magistrates should be required to live by the law if they are in taxpayer paid employment.
Yes Should the U.S use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the United States from possessing a nuclear weapon?
Unknown Position Do you support increased American intervention in Iraq and Syria beyond air support?
No 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
Slightly Increase c) Defense
Maintain Status d) Education
Maintain Status e) Environment
Maintain Status f) Homeland Security
Maintain Status g) International aid
Slightly Increase h) Medical Research
Maintain Status i) Scientific Research
Maintain Status j) Space exploration
Slightly Decrease k) United Nations
Maintain Status l) Welfare
m) Other or expanded categories
Slightly Increase a) Capital gains taxes
Slightly Decrease 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)
Slightly Decrease g) Income taxes (low-income families)
Maintain Status h) Income taxes (middle-income families)
Maintain Status i) Income taxes (high-income families)
Slightly Increase j) Inheritance taxes
Slightly Increase k) Payroll taxes
l) Other or expanded categories
My focus would be on putting American Jobs First. It is the one area of focus that can solve more problems than any other. If we protect jobs from poor international trade deals, bring back profits from US companies held overseas to create jobs here, have competitive corporate rates, invest in our infrastructure and educate our work force; then we can grow at a 3- 3.5% rate and pay our bills, reduce our debt and properly fund our social insurance programs.

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