Paul Daigle's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Paul Daigle 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? | ||
| Like my predecessor the previous PA-11 Congressional candidate, I believe that abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. We can continue to decrease the number of abortions needed by ensuring that all women have access to comprehensive family planning resources and contraception. In addition, we need to provide better maternal health care and support to low-income mothers and families. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Social security is already paying out more than is coming in despite paying too little to too many seniors. If Congress does not act soon, we will see a reduction in the current level of benefits. Reform and re-investment are needed to strengthen and expand social security. Saving social security is a major platform of my campaign. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| Our nation needs to overhaul our campaign finance system. Super PACs should not be able to hide their donor information and wealthy individuals should not be able to use LLCs to hide their support of causes and campaigns. In addition, we need substantially stronger rules to prevent coordination between PACs, Super PACs, and candidate campaigns. | |||
| No | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| Our nation has spent too much of our blood and treasure on unnecessary wars that are not in our strategic interest. The United States spends more on defense than any other nation while we have some of the worst poverty and health outcomes among all the developed nations in the world. Even using a small portion of defense funding to invest in workers and families would have a dramatic impact on our nation. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Our current tax system allows major multinational corporations to get away with paying little to no taxes. The recent Republican tax reform was supposed to spur economic growth. Instead, it was used to increase shareholders' wealth through stock buybacks and caused our national debt to grow exponentially. We need to overturn that tax reform law and at the same time 1) eliminate tax loopholes for the wealthy and corporations, 2) de-incentivize off-shore tax haven usage, and 3) incentivize investment in workers and job creation. | |||
| No | Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards? | ||
| We can incentivize adoption but not mandate it. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Climate change is an existential threat to our nation and the world. We must act decisively if we want to leave the planet livable for our children and grandchildren. | |||
| Yes | Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| I support common-sense gun reform that is supported by the majority of Americans like universal background checks, well-designed red flag laws that respect gun ownership rights while taking into account serious mental health issues that may make someone an endangerment to themselves or others, closing the no-fly list loophole, etc. | |||
| 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? | ||
| I would support a comprehensive immigration reform package that included a pathway to citizenship for undocumented individuals. I can imagine supporting a compromise on border fencing and portions of a wall as part of such a comprehensive package. | |||
| 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.)? | ||
| Any trade deals must be done in a way that honors American workers and takes environmental impact into consideration. | |||
| Reform - Washington is broken. I will work hard for systemic changes that will give power back to ordinary Americans, get money out of politics, protect voting rights, and make sure our government works efficiently and effectively for the rest of us. Opportunity - I will work hard to level the playing field so that every family has a fair shot at the American Dream. Promise - America needs to keep its promises to seniors and to future generations. I will not lose sight of the biggest challenges facing our future like saving social security and combating climate change. |
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