Joe Exotic Maldonado's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Joe Exotic Maldonado did not provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2024 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.
Issue Positions
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- "You have to wonder why our government can keep cutting our social security and still be giving billions away to other countries. For years, politicians have made bad investments and borrowed from Social Security and can't pay it back. I propose giving Americans the right to opt out of paying in to Social Security and saving their own money for their retirement, and if you blow it, welcome to free choice, America. Time to quit making Uncle Sam be your babysitter." (www.joeexotic2024.com)
- "As a Libertarian, I believe that the IRS should be shut down because, once you work to buy something, it should become yours until you sell it and someone else pays sales tax on it. You should not have to pay our government to work either, the American people work day in and day out and our politicians spend it frivolously, like our lives and hard work means nothing. So cut the funding, and it would cut the spending." (www.joeexotic2024.com)
- "I didn't get in this race to be nice. I got in this race to save schools, legalize weed, cut your taxes and give you your rights back" (x.com)
- "The only countries we need to protect are the ones we need to do business with, but then again, if we opened up our own country to self-sustaining energy that we do cleaner than anyone else and cut sending trillions of dollars away to other countries, then we could cut taxes in America and get more of our stuff built and made in America cheaper, but we tax our own so bad that they have to leave America to get things done cheaper." (www.joeexotic2024.com)
- "As a Libertarian, I believe that the IRS should be shut down because, once you work to buy something, it should become yours until you sell it and someone else pays sales tax on it. You should not have to pay our government to work either, the American people work day in and day out and our politicians spend it frivolously, like our lives and hard work means nothing. So cut the funding, and it would cut the spending." (www.joeexotic2024.com)
- "I didn't get in this race to be nice. I got in this race to save schools, legalize weed, cut your taxes and give you your rights back" (x.com)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- "No federal agent of any office should be immune from civil lawsuits. Once they are responsible for their actions, maybe they will stop lying to make arrests and convictions. What this means is, if a federal agent or agency lies about you and causes you to be convicted, charged, and you lose your livelihood and spend time in jail for their mistake, the agency and agent themselves is protected by complete immunity. This was a big thing, not only in my case and thousands of others, but with the FISA warrant in the Roger Stone case when Trump was in office. They could not hold the FBI agents that lied on the warrants responsible and they need to be held responsible in anyone's case." (www.joeexotic2024.com)
- "America has shown Russia, North Korea and China that we can be scared of a world war or of nucellar weapons being used. America needs to concentrate on building up our own military to be the biggest and best and protect our own and leave everyone else problems alone" (x.com)
- "Foreign Affairs is something we need to really look hard at. First of all a Libertarian does not believe America should be the world's police. We spend so many trillions of dollars each year sending help to other countries that we cannot keep our own railways and bridges and roads safe in our own country. It is time that any other country with NATO or G7, G20 or whatever they want to come up with next puts in the exact amount we do, or we need to stop being the pocketbook to cover everyone else's problems. If we spent as much money on our own military as we do sending it away, we would not have to worry about anyone else giving us a hard time." (www.joeexotic2024.com)
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- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
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- "@JoeBiden the billions wasted on your electric bus and climate idea just filed bankruptcy get back to drilling oil and gas." (x.com)
- "The only countries we need to protect are the ones we need to do business with, but then again, if we opened up our own country to self-sustaining energy that we do cleaner than anyone else and cut sending trillions of dollars away to other countries, then we could cut taxes in America and get more of our stuff built and made in America cheaper, but we tax our own so bad that they have to leave America to get things done cheaper." (www.joeexotic2024.com)
- "@JoeBiden the billions wasted on your electric bus and climate idea just filed bankruptcy get back to drilling oil and gas." (x.com)
- "I am pro 2nd amendment and you have a right to bear arms, but I am not a member of the NRA as I don't think lobbyist and special interest groups have a place in your constitutional rights just to make money and buy politicians. You're rights are you're rights plain and simple" (x.com)
- "Iâm the beacon of hope to bring a new Democratic party. Right to abortion, right to bear arms, equal justice, free speech and honest politics, free speech, honest politics. America first in every aspect." (x.com)
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- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
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- "Only in America can our military live now homeless in the streets and immigrants live in hotels thanks to the Biden administrations because of his failed border polices." (x.com)
- "Our loved ones gave their lives so people can be free in America. They paid their dues, so I want to vet everyone wanting to come to America to make sure they are not criminals on the run from other countries or terrorists, and give them a non-citizen tax number, like a Social Security number, allowing them to live, work, and pay taxes for 5 years. And they have that 5 years to become a citizen and have to pay $50 a month per family member to keep from being deported." (www.joeexotic2024.com)
- "Foreign Affairs is something we need to really look hard at. First of all a Libertarian does not believe America should be the world's police. We spend so many trillions of dollars each year sending help to other countries that we cannot keep our own railways and bridges and roads safe in our own country. It is time that any other country with NATO or G7, G20 or whatever they want to come up with next puts in the exact amount we do, or we need to stop being the pocketbook to cover everyone else's problems." (www.joeexotic2024.com)
- "Biden is trading 5 Iranian prisoners and giving Iran 6 billion dollars to release 5 American prisoners. The Iranians are going to use that money to build drones to give to Russia to fight Ukraine. And then we are gonna give Ukraine billions? When are you Americans gonna wake up?" (x.com)
- "It should never have been allowed to go this far with Ukraine. We are in this war if you want to admit it or not. There will never be a day that Putin sees a court room or is arrested for the mass murders that has went on in Ukraine, however we will never know the truth or the extent of what really is going on with the corruption between the U.S. Administration and the money funneled into Ukraine as a mask to support their military." (x.com)
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