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Gary Dye's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Gary Dye has failed to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2024 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.

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Issue Positions

For Presidential and Congressional candidates who refuse to provide voters with their positions, Vote Smart has researched their public records to determine their likely responses. These issue positions are from 2024.

  • "With abortion, there are two lives involved. Having the state not set a definition for when life begins shows a clear disregard for the value of any individual life. That's scary. But the state should not accept a premise that a spirit inhabits the fertilized egg at the moment of conception (and thus that is set as the definition of the beginning of life. (First Amendment)). The choice is somewhere between conception and being born, and between the unborn fully acquiring ANY one characteristic of a human being or the unborn acquiring ALL the characteristics of a human being." (None)
  • "With abortion, there are two lives involved. Having the state not set a definition for when life begins shows a clear disregard for the value of any individual life. That's scary. But the state should not accept a premise that a spirit inhabits the fertilized egg at the moment of conception (and thus that is set as the definition of the beginning of life. (First Amendment)). The choice is somewhere between conception and being born, and between the unborn fully acquiring ANY one characteristic of a human being or the unborn acquiring ALL the characteristics of a human being." (None)
  • Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare? "No" (None)
  • "We must drastically cut the size of government before we lose our credibility in the bond market, destroy the dollar with money-printing, and crash the economy with the hyperinflation we will produce. Our government will fall with this, replaced by totalitarians." (None)
  • "We should replace all taxation with a universal transaction tax. Rate would be set to match today's federal income, but cut as government programs are cut. No exemptions from this tax. No government morality interjected. Criteria is when any sum of money goes from one entity to another. Includes non-profits/charity." (None)
  • In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? "No" (None)
  • In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? "No" (None)
  • "We should replace all taxation with a universal transaction tax. Rate would be set to match today's federal income, but cut as government programs are cut. No exemptions from this tax. No government morality interjected. Criteria is when any sum of money goes from one entity to another. Includes non-profits/charity." (None)
  • Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? "No" (None)
  • "Government employees are not gods. They should not be put on a higher plain than citizens." (None)
  • Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct? "No" (None)
  • "We should not be fighting in foreign civil wars, or provide for the defense of other countries." (None)
  • Do you support increasing defense spending? "No" (None)
  • "With the rampant federal deficit spending, we have accumulated enough debt that we are at risk of effective default, and the money-printing needed to bail that out and run the government would cause hyperinflation and a total crash of the economy. We are in imminent danger of economic collapse" (None)
  • Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? "No" (None)
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  • "Attempts to curtail the use of fossil fuels is how the ruling elite wants to destroy the ruling class and have government completely take over and manage their lives." (None)
  • Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)? "No" (None)
  • "Attempts to curtail the use of fossil fuels is how the ruling elite wants to destroy the ruling class and have government completely take over and manage their lives." (None)
  • "Government should not regulate any weapon beyond that which they themselves employ in that jurisdiction." (None)
  • Do you generally support gun-control legislation? "No" (None)
  • "Government is not a god. They should not enforce their morality on any individual. They should determine how much charity an individual should give (taxes), nor who that charity should be directed to (entitlements and subsidies)." (None)
  • Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")? "Yes" (None)
  • "Government is not a god. They should not enforce their morality on any individual. They should determine how much charity an individual should give (taxes), nor who that charity should be directed to (entitlements and subsidies)." (None)
  • Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19? "No" (None)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border? "Yes"
  • "An individual's citizenship should be made sovereign to the individual, not the government. Thus, it could be sold on the open market. Government, charities, and industry could then subsidize the purchase of citizenships for anyone they want. Homeless would have the option of cashing out their citizenship and starting over in another country."
  • Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? "Yes"
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
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.
Unknown Position Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
With abortion, there are two lives involved. Having the state not set a definition for when life begins shows a clear disregard for the value of any individual life. That's scary. But the state should not accept a premise that a spirit inhabits the fertilized egg at the moment of conception (and thus that is set as the definition of the beginning of life. (First Amendment)). The choice is somewhere between conception and being born, and between the unborn fully acquiring ANY one characteristic of a human being or the unborn acquiring ALL the characteristics of a human being.
No In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
No Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare?
We must drastically cut the size of government before we lose our credibility in the bond market, destroy the dollar with money-printing, and crash the economy with the hyperinflation we will produce. Our government will fall with this, replaced by totalitarians.
No Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
Campaign contributions should be from individual citizens.
No Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct?
Government employees are not gods. They should not be put on a higher plain than citizens.
No Do you support increasing defense spending?
We should not be fighting in foreign civil wars, or provide for the defense of other countries.
No Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
Yes Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
No Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19?
With the rampant federal deficit spending, we have accumulated enough debt that we are at risk of effective default, and the money-printing needed to bail that out and run the government would cause hyperinflation and a total crash of the economy. We are in imminent danger of economic collapse.
No Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
Government funding of education should be in the form of vouchers and education savings accounts. All schools should be privatized, letting the market and community decide their standards -- let the parents decide their kids' indoctrination, and let any school that does not serve the community standards go bankrupt, with their employees losing their jobs.
No Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)?
No Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
Attempts to curtail the use of fossil fuels is how the ruling elite wants to destroy the ruling class and have government completely take over and manage their lives.
No Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
Government should not regulate any weapon beyond that which they themselves employ in that jurisdiction.
Yes Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
No Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19?
Government is not a god. They should not enforce their morality on any individual. They should determine how much charity an individual should give (taxes), nor who that charity should be directed to (entitlements and subsidies).
Yes Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
Yes Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
An individual's citizenship should be made sovereign to the individual, not the government. Thus, it could be sold on the open market. Government, charities, and industry could then subsidize the purchase of citizenships for anyone they want. Homeless would have the option of cashing out their citizenship and starting over in another country.
Yes Should the United States use military force to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a weapon of mass destruction (for example: nuclear, biological, chemical)?
No Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts?
We need to remove our troops from any and all civil wars or religious conflicts. We should reduce our standing army to near zero, as it has become obsolete. We should lend our military forces to any ally that has been attacked, but not before. Bring all of our troops home, from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Korea, and Japan. Stop patrolling the merchant sea lanes unless paid for by merchants or foreign governments.
Yes Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
We should penalize countries that attempt to create monopolies and destroy our industries.
We should replace all taxation with a universal transaction tax. Rate would be set to match today's federal income, but cut as government programs are cut. No exemptions from this tax. No government morality interjected. Criteria is when any sum of money goes from one entity to another. Includes non-profits/charity.

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