David Duke's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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David Duke has refused to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2016 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.
Issue Positions
For Presidential and Congressional candidates who refuse to provide voters with their positions, Vote Smart has researched their public records to determine their likely responses. These issue positions are from 2016.
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- "In the 1990 Senate Race, I promoted a flat tax of around 10 percent that could be based on consumption and thus eliminate the income tax entirely -- and the IRS." (votesmart.org)
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- "I believe in a 50 percent tax credit for parents who send their child to private or church school." (dukeforsenate.com)
- "In the 1990 Senate Race, I promoted a flat tax of around 10 percent that could be based on consumption and thus eliminate the income tax entirely â and the IRS." (dukeforsenate.com)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
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- "Both these traitors and haters of the American people want to do away with our God-given gun rights! #DemsInPhilly" (twitter.com)
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- "Massive illegal and legal immigration is destroying the cultural, political and ethnic character of America and is part of a deliberate policy of the media and political establishment to reduce white Americans to a minority in the nation that our own forefathers created." (dukeforsenate.com)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- "America has pursued a disastrous, in many ways treasonous foreign policy that has put the interests of foreign nations and globalists objectives over the most basic interests of the American people. A perfect example is the fact that the American Government was the original sponsor of al Qaeda and bin Laden which ultimately committed unspeakable terror upon America. Another is that the political leaders of this country have supported al Nusra which is an al Qaeda radical jihadist terror organization in Syria, and they sent your money to support the horrific rise of ISIS." (dukeforsenate.com)
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