David Campbell's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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David Campbell has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2020 Political Courage Test.
Oregon Congressional Election 2020 Political Courage Test
| Yes | 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? | ||
| I believe that we need severe reform and a balanced budget. We can't just keep printing money. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| Some of my colleagues are supported by healthcare and big Pharma. This office is not for sale. | |||
| No | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| Right now, we're in good shape having just spent 1.2 Trillion on defense. While the need to maintain vigilant armed forces, I don't think an expansion is in the cards. | |||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| This is a difficult issue. The severity of this pandemic can be weathered by cash rich companies, it's the small business that will have the hardest times. Scalar solutions are perhaps the most effective means we will have to promote recovery. | |||
| Yes | Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards? | ||
| I do, only because we have let liberal scholars and academia create a non-standard historical heresy. The schools no longer teach morals and values like they did when I was younger. | |||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| If you mean a carbon footprint tax, I say NO. American's can change greenhouse emissions by simply changing their diet to proteins like chicken. Tax dollars are not going to change America's mind, it has to be a movement. | |||
| No | Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| Leave our guns alone. Keep our constitution intact. | |||
| 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? | ||
| This pandemic has been rough and lives have been lost. Creating more unneeded legislation for rare occurrences is not a good idea. This can be discussed at the state level. | |||
| 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? | ||
| We have a legal method to gain citizenship. It works. I welcome all new Americans who followed the rules to get here! | |||
| 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? | ||
| We have a pretty solid understanding of the regimes who would use nuclear weapons or biological weapons against the world. Keeping them in check is in the interest of people all around the world. | |||
| No | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| We have been lax for more than thirty years and it has led to offshoring and near-shoring of our nations businesses, just to CEO and shareholders could make a tad more profit. We need to repatriate our industrial and manufacturing core leadership. If they can make it in China, we can make it here. | |||
| Create legislation to remove PORK in bills. One bill, one case, one funding. Create jobs by revamping SBA to support medium business initiatives. "Make it in America"... Solar Panels, cell phones batteries etc. Bring back fabric mills and looms. Why can't we make shoes here? |
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