Alison Hayden's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Issue Positions
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- "We invited such evil and societal decay into our land with the Roe vs Wade decision! Its reversal will usher in a new era of morality, prosperity + renewal such as we haven't seen! God is FAITHFUL! A woman's agency over her body is not a license to murder! @realDonaldTrump @POTUS" (x.com)
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- "No, everyone must be accountable for one's own actions." (None)
- "Not privy to the complexities of military funding, requirements of national security, I rely on those entrusted with those decisions to make them. As our system is structured, they must be accountable for decisions made." (None)
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- "Make SURE it happens VOTE In-person, with VoterID!" (x.com)
- "Government bureaucracy, once created must continually justify its existence and divorced from the realities of cost. Private industry responses are more innovative, cost-effective, dynamic to needs, change, collaborative, and creative." (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? | ||
| Yes. Life begins at conception | |||
| 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? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| No | Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct? | ||
| No, everyone must be accountable for one's own actions. | |||
| Yes | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| Not privy to the complexities of military funding, requirements of national security, I rely on those entrusted with those decisions to make them. As our system is structured, they must be accountable for decisions made. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Yes | Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19? | ||
| Yes, but only if the negative impact is substantiated since a number of companies did well under COVID-19 restrictions. | |||
| No | Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards? | ||
| In principle, no. However, to the extent that the federal government is responsible for provision of safety, and equal opportunity to the citizenry, it has oversight as to their educational development/ preparation. When a state adopted curricula content is determined to be anathema to sound intellectual and emotional development, it is the duty of the federal government to intervene. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Government bureaucracy, once created must continually justify its existence and divorced from the realities of cost. Private industry responses are more innovative, cost-effective, dynamic to needs, change, collaborative, and creative. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Many of its insurers bailed. It was the intermediary to a single-payer system that will be a burden in its administrational costs, higher costs, not to speak of diminished services and quality delivery. I have lived in countries with single-payer systems that are much smaller than the USA and accessibility and services vary. Remember the $3,000 screwdrivers charged to the Pentagon? Hello Socialized Healthcare! No, because it was a government mandated order and businesses should not be compelled to financially support the government, or be 100% compensated by the government via other tax, etc. benefit. | |||
| 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? | ||
| With the exception of protecting allies, the USA should not be involved, especially in fomenting civil unrest as a pretext for oil. | |||
| Yes | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| There are times when tariffs, etc., may be used as a temporary measure to realign trade deals for US interests. | |||
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