Robert Colon's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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North Carolina Congressional Election 2020 Political Courage Test
| 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? | ||
| What we will need to do to balance the budget is focus on where spending occurs - mainly in so-called entitlement programs and to a certain extent in the supposedly discretionary budget. At some point, a tax increase is inevitable, but as a temporary measure. We must be on a financial path we can sustain over the long term, and that will never happen as long as Social Security, Medicare, etc. are growing at a faster rate than the economy. | |||
| No | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| Regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations or unions is a means of suppressing political speech. | |||
| No | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| There is just no way to sustain more and more spending on defense over the long term. | |||
| No | 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? | ||
| Hardworking Americans promote economic growth. The government must fight for jobs. We should hold the line on taxes. The keyword is responsibility. | |||
| No | Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards? | ||
| We must push for an educational system focused on truly teaching students instead of measuring them. | |||
| No | 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? | ||
| It is more important for the government to regulate than to subsidize energy. | |||
| No | Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| Before introducing new restrictions on guns, we should explore all our options. | |||
| No | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")? | ||
| "Obamacare" might not be ideal, but it marks an improvement in health care reform. | |||
| No | 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? | ||
| Force is always my final resort. | |||
| Yes | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
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