Skylar Hurwitz's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Skylar Hurwitz has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2020 Political Courage Test.
Pennsylvania Congressional Election 2020 Political Courage Test
| Pro-choice | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| Many women are forced to travel hours upon hours across state lines - sometimes waiting months - to get the care they need. It is a women's right to make her own choice about her body and we must make the medical facilities and treatments to make those decisions immediately and freely available to all who want them. | |||
| 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? | ||
| My campaign's Fair Tax Platform includes targeted taxes to address income inequality in the United States while significantly expanding public services. Individuals making under $250,000 and couples making under $500,000 would see a net increase in disposable income. Two key priorities include passing Medicare for All and expanding social security. Medicare for All includes dental, hearing, eye care, and in-home care so all Americans can see any doctor with no copays, deductibles, premiums, or out of pocket expenses. Additionally, income above $250,000 should be subjected to the social security payroll tax to expand essential benefits for seniors. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| We should move to publicly fund elections so every candidate is on equal footing, ensuring the best ideas win. The disastrous Citizens United decision has resulted in a massive increase in spending on campaigns that favors large donors and wealthy self-financiers. We must overturn the Citizen's United decision with a constitutional amendment that increases transparency by eliminating dark money and moving to publicly fund our elections. | |||
| No | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| Trillions of dollars have been spent on endless wars that have resulted in the loss of thousands of American lives. When our veterans get home, they rarely receive the care they deserve. I believe we must end our habit of wasting trillions of dollars and countless lives on endless wars and instead invest here at home on programs that benefit veterans of past wars, workers and families. International efforts should focus on diplomacy and aid engagements, not dropping bombs that cost millions of dollars a piece. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Corporate tax rates are at historical lows, yet the inequalities between large corporations and small business owners and workers are at record highs. We have a problem on our hands when the top 100 largest companies are paying 0 as their effective corporate tax rate while small business owners shell out double digit percentages of their revenues in taxes. We must pass a Fair Tax Platform that levels the playing field for working families and small business owners by making the largest corporations pay their fair share. | |||
| 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 trust our national security experts at the Pentagon when they say the climate crisis is one of the top threats to our national security over the coming century. Fortunately, we can address this threat in a way that strengthens our economy. Just as New Deal programs electrified rural America during the 20th century, it is time for a Green New Deal to turn our infrastructure green and create millions of well-paying jobs. | |||
| Yes | Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| I support common sense reforms to keep our children and communities safe while protecting hunters and outdoorsmen, which has earned me the endorsement of LEAP Forward for Community Safety. | |||
| No | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")? | ||
| No. I support expanding the concept of making comprehensive healthcare available to all in our country and would do so by building on the 50-year old Medicare legislation that has come to be loved by seniors on both sides of the political spectrum. We must separate healthcare from employment and make healthcare a human right by expanding medicare to include dental, hearing, eye care, and in-home care and passing 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? | ||
| For those fleeing violence and likely death, it is unreasonable to expect them to return to a dangerous place with their families. We show our true strength as a nation when we welcome those in need in their darkest hours. | |||
| 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? | ||
| We can and must deal with adversaries abroad through diplomacy, just as the Obama administration did when they pursued a peaceful agreement with Iran to de-escalate their nuclear weapons program. We must end our endless wars and focus on investments here at home. Our infrastructure is crumbling. Americans are working until they are older and older because there's no money to retire. We are at a point of massive wealth inequality domestically that requires we focus our efforts rebuilding our country so that it puts workers and families first. | |||
| No | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| I strongly believe in the benefits of international trade but believe domestic workers and national security must come first. Finding the cheapest labor and the cheapest goods generally comes at a cost to American workers based here in the USA. Furthermore, our dependence on international supply chains for pharmaceuticals and medical gear in times of crisis puts our national security at risk. We now depend on China to manufacture our critical supplies because we put US-based manufacturers out of work when we started importing products from China's cheap labor markets without prioritizing US-based workers and manufacturers. This must change. | |||
| My top priority is a 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights that ensures every single American has a job, a complete education, comprehensive healthcare, affordable housing, a secure retirement and a clean environment. The Fair Tax Platform directly funds the 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights through a series of targeted taxes that address the historic levels of inequality in modern society. Workers making under $250,000 and families making under $500,000 would see extensive benefits while top earners, such as CEOs that pay their workers pennies and Wall Street speculators, would pay a modest series of targeted taxes. |
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