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Ike McCorkle's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Ike McCorkle has failed to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2024 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.

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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 2024.

  • "Protections for all healthcare decisions, especially reproductive healthcare decisions that ensure that medical choices are made by doctors and patients - not by judges or public officials - are desperately needed at the federal level." (ike4co.com)
  • "We support federal protections for the right to choose. No judge or public official should come between any American Citizen and their healthcare decisions." (ike4co.com)
  • "Removing the cap will increase revenues and extend Social Security solvency for the next 50 years, benefiting all American alive today." (ike4co.com)
  • "Today, Social Security is more important than ever. Lift the cap so that everyone who makes over $250,000 a year pays the same percentage of their income (not the same dollars) into Social Security as do middle class working families." (ike4co.com)
  • "Today, Social Security is more important than ever: Expand benefits by an average of $65 per month; and increase cost-of-living adjustments." (ike4co.com)
  • "We must protect benefits for seniors and "scrap the cap" for Social Security." (ike4co.com)
  • "Last time my opponent @repkenbuck was in the Majority they passed a 2T unpaid for tax cut for the rich & corporations that tripled our debt & added to the inflation that we are experiencing post pandemic. Now they are taking food away from kids. Its time to #getthebuckout" (x.com)
  • "Today, Social Security is more important than ever. Lift the cap so that everyone who makes over $250,000 a year pays the same percentage of their income (not the same dollars) into Social Security as do middle class working families." (ike4co.com)
  • "Why do Buck and his colleagues support the repeal of the estate tax that would provide 1.8 T tax breaks for the rich & expand our national debt & deficit? Why extend the 2 T Trump Tax cuts for the super rich? Buck claims to be a fiscal conservative but is a corporatist yes man." (x.com)
  • "We must protect benefits for seniors and "scrap the cap" for Social Security." (ike4co.com)
  • "Last time my opponent @repkenbuck was in the Majority they passed a 2T unpaid for tax cut for the rich & corporations that tripled our debt & added to the inflation that we are experiencing post pandemic. Now they are taking food away from kids. Its time to #getthebuckout" (x.com)
  • "Today, Social Security is more important than ever. Lift the cap so that everyone who makes over $250,000 a year pays the same percentage of their income (not the same dollars) into Social Security as do middle class working families." (ike4co.com)
  • "Why do Buck and his colleagues support the repeal of the estate tax that would provide 1.8 T tax breaks for the rich & expand our national debt & deficit? Why extend the 2 T Trump Tax cuts for the super rich? Buck claims to be a fiscal conservative but is a corporatist yes man." (x.com)
  • "We must protect benefits for seniors and "scrap the cap" for Social Security." (ike4co.com)
  • "Fight for a publicly financed, transparent system of campaign financing that amplifies small donations, along the lines of the Fair Elections Now Act." (ike4co.com)
  • "Fight to eliminate super PACs and other outside spending abuses." (ike4co.com)
  • "Fight to pass a constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United and make it clear that Congress and the states have the power to regulate money in elections." (ike4co.com)
  • "The need for real campaign finance reform is an issue that should concern all Americans regardless of their political point of view." (ike4co.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "We must heed the warning of President Dwight Eisenhower’s 1961 farewell address about the dangers and influence of the Military-Industrial Complex, which is truer today than it was then. Our defense budget must represent our national security interests and the needs of our military, not the reelection of members of Congress or the profits of defense contractors." (ike4co.com)
  • "I’m celebrating #AmericanCleanPowerWeek with @USCleanPower! The clean energy industry – wind, solar, energy storage, and transmission – is powering American jobs across all 50 states and driving investment into local communities" (x.com)
  • "We must invest in our energy sector, technologies, and programs that will expand our energy industry production and workforce. Emerging production technologies can secure livelihoods while protecting our children’s futures." (ike4co.com)
  • "We must invest in workforce development. Currently, the United States ranks second to last among the world’s largest economies in workforce investment." (ike4co.com)
  • "We need to increase funding for the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund. This will address the affordable housing crisis and create millions of good paying jobs." (ike4co.com)
  • "Demand more from Affordable Housing Developers. Housing that is built with government subsidies should remain affordable much longer." (ike4co.com)
  • "We need to increase funding for the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund. This will address the affordable housing crisis and create millions of good paying jobs." (ike4co.com)
  • "Thank you, America's great labor unions and movements, for insuring the safety of the American worker, and for fighting for fair hours and fair wages. May we honor that work with increased worker safety & a minimum wage tied to inflation for future generations." (x.com)
  • "The United States Federal reserve just reported that corporate profits are up 25% this year. We have the highest inflation in 40 years in the highest corporate profits in 50 years. Cap Inflation yesterday NOW! " (x.com)
  • "Dramatically reduce college debt and pay for it by imposing a tax on Wall Street speculators." (ike4co.com)
  • "Make tuition free at public colleges and universities." (ike4co.com)
  • "Implement automatic voter registration practices" (ike4co.com)
  • "Implement mail-in paper ballots nationally and locally." (ike4co.com)
  • "Restore full protections of the Voting Rights Act." (ike4co.com)
  • "Safeguarding the right to vote is a primary duty of our government" (ike4co.com)
  • "I’m celebrating #AmericanCleanPowerWeek with @USCleanPower! The clean energy industry – wind, solar, energy storage, and transmission – is powering American jobs across all 50 states and driving investment into local communities" (x.com)
  • "Preparing for and Preventing Future Climate Disruption through a Climate Security Infrastructure Initiative to improve the climate resilience of our critical national infrastructure, and an economy-wide Climate Security Prevention Policy both within the United States and abroad to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the scale necessary to avoid catastrophic security consequences while bolstering economic development." (ike4co.com)
  • "We must invest in our energy sector, technologies, and programs that will expand our energy industry production and workforce. Emerging production technologies can secure livelihoods while protecting our children’s futures." (ike4co.com)
  • "Preparing for and Preventing Future Climate Disruption through a Climate Security Infrastructure Initiative to improve the climate resilience of our critical national infrastructure, and an economy-wide Climate Security Prevention Policy both within the United States and abroad to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the scale necessary to avoid catastrophic security consequences while bolstering economic development." (ike4co.com)
  • "We propose and support a National Safe Storage Act which would provide gun owners with subsidized purchase of bio metric-capable gun safes, and to make safe storage the law, including specific clauses on storage and transport of firearms and ammunition. This would drastically reduce accidental firearm injuries and deaths." (ike4co.com)
  • "We support comprehensive universal background checks and waiting periods for gun purchases." (ike4co.com)
  • "We support passing a Federal Training Standards Act: Federal training, qualification, and proficiency standards for firearms transport, storage, and use are needed. Federal standards should require that firearms owners are qualified and insured on the specific weapon system that they are purchasing. States still have rights, of course, but Federal policy is needed to standardize the system Nationally and protect the public." (ike4co.com)
  • "We support passing the Concealed Carry Licensure Standards Act, to require potential concealed carry licensees to pass an education and weapons specific employment course that includes qualification standards on a "shoot-or-do-not-shoot" course." (ike4co.com)
  • "A majority of Americans on both sides of the aisle, as well as independents and third-party members, agree that Medicare For All must be delivered. It’s time to put people before profits and it’s time that Americans stop paying the most for healthcare with the worst results." (ike4co.com)
  • "Save money for small businesses by shifting the expense of health insurance from employers and employees to the government." (ike4co.com)
  • "There are many lessons to be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. One major lesson is that the U.S. desperately needs universal healthcare, which would provide a whole-country approach to access and care for our nation." (ike4co.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Reign-in drug prices" (ike4co.com)
  • "Save money for Americans by allowing Congress to negotiate with hospitals and drug companies for lower pricing." (ike4co.com)
  • "Assure 21st Century border resources are used efficiently and effectively." (ike4co.com)
  • "Dismantle inhumane deportation programs and detention centers." (ike4co.com)
  • "Pave the way for a swift and fair legislative roadmap to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants." (ike4co.com)
  • "America has always been a haven for the oppressed. We must embrace the historic role of the US as a protector of vulnerable people fleeing persecution. We need an immigration policy that stops the criminalization of communities of color and keeps families together." (ike4co.com)
  • "Dismantle inhumane deportation programs and detention centers." (ike4co.com)
  • "Expand DACA and DAPA." (ike4co.com)
  • "I support largely diplomatic and economic policy approaches as well as proven special strategies to counter worldwide anti-democratic forces. This includes the strong use of the ongoing diplomatic summits and the strongest economic sanctions possible such as those being used to support Ukraine against Russia’s recent invasion." (ike4co.com)
  • "I support strong – yet practical and pragmatic – actions to counter aggressive attacks on existing democratic institutions in all countries where the citizens of that country seek to build and maintain free and fair elections, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom to join civic institutions, and the rule of law." (ike4co.com)
  • "I support the United States and other democracies providing immediate funding and direct actions to fight autocratic institutions taking hold abroad, except where these responsibilities fall under existing international treaties such as NATO." (ike4co.com)
  • "I support largely diplomatic and economic policy approaches as well as proven special strategies to counter worldwide anti-democratic forces. This includes the strong use of the ongoing diplomatic summits and the strongest economic sanctions possible such as those being used to support Ukraine against Russia’s recent invasion." (ike4co.com)
  • "Only strength, unity, and steadfast military support will prevent Russia from winning this war. We unequivocally support the people of Ukraine in their efforts to restore pre-invasion 2014 internationally accepted borders between Ukraine/Crimea and the Russian Federation." (ike4co.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.

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