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Betsy Rader's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Betsy Rader has failed to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2020 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.

What is the Political Courage Test?
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.

Ohio Congressional Election 2018 Political Courage Test

Pro-choice Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
Yes In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
Unknown Position In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
Congress needs to exercise effective oversight regarding defense spending, and make budget decisions based upon sound information.
Yes Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
Yes Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
Unknown Position Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
To encourage economic growth, we need to target specific areas of need that will actually create jobs. Across the board corporate tax cuts don't target the creation of jobs and frequently only help those at the top.
Yes Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
Yes Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
Yes Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
Yes Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
My dad was a game warden and on the weekends, we'd go out hunting. As someone who grew up in a family of gun-owners, I respect folks' 2nd amendment rights and think they should be protected. It's also important that we pass common-sense gun safety legislation like background checks and bans on armor-piercing bullets, silencers, and high-capacity magazines. These steps will help make our schools, law enforcement, and communities safer.
No Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
No Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
Unknown Position Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
The treatment of undocumented persons should be determined on the basis of the individualized circumstances of those persons.
No Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
Unknown Position Should the United States use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a nuclear weapon?
Unknown Position Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
Diplomacy should always be our first priority and military force should be a last resort used only when necessary. American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts must be determined based upon particular circumstances as they arise, but diplomacy should be our highest priority and military intervention should be kept to a minimum.
Our campaign is focused on access to affordable healthcare, high-quality public education, good-paying jobs, and fixing our campaign finance system. People of all income levels and backgrounds should be able to participate in government and have a say in who their representatives are. Unfortunately, the deck is stacked by the powerful and the moneyed, and we need to fix that with campaign finance reform. Because the voices of ordinary Americans are being drowned out by special interests, we're not solving the issues that are most important and it's critical that we break through the dysfunction to address them.

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