Robert Lawton's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Robert Lawton has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2020 Political Courage Test.
California Congressional Election 2020 Political Courage Test
| Yes | In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? | ||
| Yes | Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare? | ||
| The ONLY income tax increase I support is on the extremely wealthy, and I further support making companies like Amazon, (who earned $11.2 billion last year but paid no Federal income taxes on those earnings), pay their fair share. I also support expanding Social Security & Medicaid. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| I support rescinding Citizens United altogether via Constitutional Amendment. | |||
| No | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| Absolutely not. The United States spend more on defense than the next 7 largest countries COMBINED. Meanwhile, our citizens don't have healthcare. I support dramatic cutting & reconfiguration of defense spending. | |||
| Yes | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| No | Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| The 2017 Tax Scam was a disgrace which benefited the wealthy & corporations at the expense of the middle class. | |||
| Yes | Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| I strongly support the Green New Deal. | |||
| Yes | Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| I'm a gun owner who, like most Americans, supports reasonable gun control measures like expanded background checks. | |||
| No | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")? | ||
| I support Medicare For All. | |||
| No | Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border? | ||
| No | Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? | ||
| We're a nation founded on immigration, and a wall is unnecessary. We need to pass a clean DREAM ACT, pass DAPA, and abolish ICE. | |||
| 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)? | ||
| Yes | Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts? | ||
| The United States has no business intervening in the affairs of another nation until, or unless, human rights are being violated, and then I believe we have an obligation to intervene. | |||
| Yes | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| I support the Green New Deal, which will be fully paid for in 15 years, and has the ancillary benefit of staving off the current climate crisis, rebuilding our nation's infrastructure, and will provide retraining & 20 million new jobs for Americans. I also support Medicare For All which will result in LOWER overall healthcare costs (saving $450 billion & 68,000 deaths per year) while guaranteeing healthcare for every man, woman & child in this country. |
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