Vance Boyd's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Vance Boyd is currently being tested through the 2024 Political Courage Test.
Issue Positions
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- Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? "Yes" (None)
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- "Increases should be based on need and not on an automatic budget increase" (None)
- Do you support increasing defense spending? "Yes" (None)
- "As your U.S. Representative in Washington, I will work across the aisle and within my own Party to help restore the integrity, dignity and focus of the military brass, and the men and women in uniform they command around the world. Letâs reaffirm our commitment to a military that prioritizes its core purpose, upholds the honor of those who serve, and preserves the principles that have made it the symbol of strength and excellence. No level of "wokeness" or societal experimentation should ever jeopardize the effectiveness, readiness, spirit or honor of our military." (vancewboyd.com)
- Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? "No" (None)
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- "Under President Trump, as you may recall, the United States achieved energy independence for the first time ever. That wasnât political magic â Trump just eased the regulatory shackles and let U.S. energy producers do what they do best: produce oil and gas. And America benefited tremendously because of it. Texas, of course, is one of the leading producers of crude oil and natural gas in the country â and West Texas, in particular, has abundant reserves." (vancewboyd.com)
- "The Biden Administration, prompted by Progressives, is increasingly restricting producers of "fossil fuels", like the crude oil and natural gas thatâs produced in West Texas, in favor of a transition to so-called "clean" energy, which actually isnât so clean. When referring to "fossil fuels", a term I put in air quotes, these are resources that are actually 100% organic. Theyâre made up of decomposing plants and other organisms that have been buried beneath layers of rock and sediment, and after a very long time, some say millions of years, turn into the carbon-rich deposits we call "fossil" fuels. The United States has some of the largest and richest oil and gas fields in the world, so supply is not the issue thatâs choking our energy producers; itâs all the regulations and bureaucratic red tape being imposed by the Biden Administration." (vancewboyd.com)
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- Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border? "Yes" (None)
- Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? "Yes" (None)
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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.
| Pro-life | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
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| Pro Life | |||
| No | 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? | ||
| Social security and Medicare are not entitlements as people have paid into the programs and it and the funds in it belongs to the people who paid into it... | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| Yes | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| Increases should be based on need and not on an automatic budget increase | |||
| 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 where ever has any government at any level stimulated any growth or economic expansion by raising taxes. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Any entity whose only way to be viable and legitimate ,who can only do so through getting a handout of American taxpayers� money should probably find another line of work. | |||
| No | Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| �The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed�... the single most unambiguous statement in the entire Bill of Rights. | |||
| Yes | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")? | ||
| The pre existing conditions guidelines should be maintained | |||
| 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? | ||
| 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? | ||
| Yes | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| Tariffs should only be used as a tool to affect fair trade | |||
| Put working people first. Uphold the Constitution as written by our founders. Equity in rural hospital reimbursement. Voter ID in all elections. Fully fund the border wall.. And the most important, to know I did my part to ensure that the greatest form of government ever conceived by man and blessed by God into existence will be there to allow my children and their children to achieve anything to the maximum of their abilities. |
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