Joe Reynolds' Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Joe Reynolds has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2020 Political Courage Test.
South Carolina Congressional Election 2020 Political Courage Test
| Pro-choice | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| I believe states do have the right to make reasonable restrictions on abortion. But I do not want abortion criminalized. | |||
| 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? | ||
| There should be some revenue and also some means testing, and also an age increase. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| Yes | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| Defense spending should increase no higher than the rate of revenue increase. If revenue increases 3.8% as it did in 2019, then defense should not increase more than 3%. Last time I checked they had increased it 8%. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Federal spending should only be used during recessionary periods to promote growth. | |||
| No | Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards? | ||
| States and localities generally know better than the federal government regarding education. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Some subsidies need to be employed for renewables. A revenue neutral carbon tax can be a means of using free market principles to lower emissions. | |||
| Yes | Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| A universal background check can help promote safe commercial sales of weapons. | |||
| No | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")? | ||
| Yes | Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19? | ||
| States should be allowed the freedom to increase enrollments. States are models of invention when it comes to health care, and we should give them more free rein. | |||
| 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? | ||
| People who have been here since childhood should be allowed to stay (DACA). But with all big immigration overhauls we need buy in from both R and D sides. We don't have that now. We have nothing. Because no one wants to create solutions, they only want to get re-elected. | |||
| 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)? | ||
| No | Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts? | ||
| No | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| Barriers should be lifted for democratic states. Places like China or Saudi Arabia should have tariffs. | |||
| My goal is to restore the Senate as a place where work gets done. Currently we only have people wandering the halls waiting to go fundraise. I have two ethics rules. 1. No fundraising during the legislative work week. 2. No fundraising in the District of Columbia for members. I have a new oath of office: members will vow not to become lobbyists after serving. And I have a constitutional amendment for term limits for Senate. |
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