Alan J. Yim's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Alan J. Yim has failed to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2018 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.
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.
Hawaii Congressional Election 2016 Political Courage Test
| Pro-choice | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| The decision of what to do for an unwanted pregnancy is one of the toughest choices a person will have to make in their lifetime. It is a complicated and highly contested subject for our nation to face. What I do know however is that the government should not be involved in making this choice. Personally, I would seek to educate any who face this dilemma make the choice that can best preserve live. Medical technology will continue to advance and I hope that we can someday live in a world without the need to make this choice at all. | |||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| As a United States Marine, I have personally seen what our money is being spent on across the globe in the name of national defense. It is not that we aren't spending enough to provide adequate national defense, we spend more than the next 17 nations below us combined, America needs significant budget reform to bring the costs of our military under control and to take care of our veterans at home who are faced with homelessness, unemployment, higher risks of drug abuse, and suicide. | |||
| No | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| Money is speech, the government should not be in the business in restricting where we can or can't spend our money. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Our criminal legal system has become a burden on the tax payer. There is a significant need for criminal justice reform as the current system in it's current form only creates life long criminals that have no where else to go in society. The US legal system must rely more heavily on the civil courts to provide just compensation to the victims of crimes, instead of removing people from the economy entirely. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Yes | Do you support providing tax incentives to businesses for the purpose of job creation? | ||
| Government intervention in the economy have only led to making problems worse. A government which interferes the least with the economy will see the best opportunity for growth. | |||
| 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)? | ||
| No | 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? | ||
| Yes | Do you support same-sex marriage? | ||
| Government should not be in the business of issuing marriage licenses. | |||
| No | Should the U.S use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the United States from possessing a nuclear weapon? | ||
| No | Do you support increased American intervention in Iraq and Syria beyond air support? | ||
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| 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.
| Eliminate | a) Agriculture | ||
| Eliminate | b) Arts | ||
| Greatly Decrease | c) Defense | ||
| Eliminate | d) Education | ||
| Greatly Decrease | e) Environment | ||
| Greatly Decrease | f) Homeland Security | ||
| Eliminate | g) International aid | ||
| Eliminate | h) Medical Research | ||
| Eliminate | i) Scientific Research | ||
| Eliminate | j) Space exploration | ||
| Eliminate | k) United Nations | ||
| Eliminate | l) Welfare | ||
| m) Other or expanded categories | |||
| Eliminate | a) Capital gains taxes | ||
| Eliminate | b) Corporate taxes | ||
| Eliminate | c) Small business taxes | ||
| Eliminate | d) Excise taxes (alcohol) | ||
| Eliminate | e) Excise taxes (cigarettes) | ||
| Eliminate | f) Excise taxes (transportation fuel) | ||
| Eliminate | g) Income taxes (low-income families) | ||
| Eliminate | h) Income taxes (middle-income families) | ||
| Eliminate | i) Income taxes (high-income families) | ||
| Eliminate | j) Inheritance taxes | ||
| Eliminate | k) Payroll taxes | ||
| l) Other or expanded categories | |||
| If elected, my top priority will be repealing the Jones Act to lower the cost of living in Hawaii. My second priority would be ending the warrant-less spying of US citizens done by all federal agencies. My third priority will be to end the war on terror that has kept the US in over a decade of war. All of these have no cost and will instead significantly reduce the long term spending of the US government. |
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