Adam Christensen's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Adam Christensen has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2020 Political Courage Test.
Florida Congressional Election 2020 Political Courage Test
| Pro-choice | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| We believe in cutting abortions in half by preventing unplanned pregnancies. The way we do this is by providing healthcare, birth control, and education on how "not to get pregnant" to everyone regardless of income. We will fight against any law that removes control of women's bodies from women. Banning abortions does not lower the number of abortions that occur, preventing unplanned pregnancies does. We are pro-women and anti-poverty. | |||
| 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? | ||
| I support increasing taxes on those who have over $50 Million in order to balance the budget. I am proposing middle class tax cuts, not tax cuts for the super wealthy. Social security is not an entitlement. We already pay for it; it is just us getting our money back with interest. We will expand Social Security and at the same time make sure everyone has access to health care. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| We believe that health care is a human right. Universal Single-Payer Healthcare is not only the moral choice, but it is also the cheaper option. We support Medicare for All. We also support the expansion of Social Security and making sure that everyone who pays money to a program actually gets their money back when they are supposed to. | |||
| No | Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct? | ||
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| No | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| We believe that the same amount of money that is spent on the military should be spent on education. If that means lowering the military budget to pay for it, that is ok with us. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Yes | Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19? | ||
| I do not believe in bailing out hedge funds or billionaires. Every twelve years we bail out of the largest companies in the world and hand them free money that we never get back. We are sick of corporate socialism. It is time to focus on small businesses and break up the monopolies that kill capitalism. We will also implement a federal jobs guarantee to boost the economy. | |||
| Yes | Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards? | ||
| we believe that the federal government should direct all states in meeting levels of educational care. We do not agree with Common Core, or other curriculums that prioritize standardized tests. These tests oftentimes are more negative and harmful to learning compared to other methods which could emphasize critical thinking and creativity. | |||
| 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? | ||
| We do not have a choice; we must take care of our planet before it is too late. That's why we support the Green New Deal and its provisions which aim to transition toward renewable energy and away from fossil fuels and methods harmful to the environment. | |||
| Yes | Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| We are a Moms Demand Action candidate for gun sense. We support universal background checks and the closing of loopholes surrounding them, as well as fighting corruption in the gun industry. We are focused on ending mass and everyday shootings. | |||
| 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? | ||
| In the middle of a pandemic, whenever one person does not have healthcare, everyone else is at risk. Currently we pay 2x what everyone else in the world does for worse care. We propose that we eliminate the middlemen that take 30% of the money we pay for healthcare which will cut costs and make services better. Those companies are the insurance companies that only function to deny care and increase prices. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Immigrants are not the reason that people can't find good jobs. The reason that people are struggling to survive is because corporate cartels like Walmart undercut family owned stores that pay good wages and drive them out of business. This leads to a consolidated the market and jobs that pay 1/3rd of what they should. We are going to make life hard for the companies who are responsible for this theft from the middle class, and not blame those that are poorer than we are. | |||
| No | 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? | ||
| The United States has never successfully prevented WMD's using military force. We have through diplomatic but not militarily. In fact, the times we've tried we have made the situations 10x worse and spent Trillions of dollars on forever wars. It is expensive, it is pointless, and it costs the lives of American Citizens who don't want to die so that we can topple another countries government. | |||
| No | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| Currently we have prioritized cheap goods over the national security and American workers. As we have seen in this pandemic, if we are relying on China for masks, in an emergency we are in serious trouble. We need to make things in the US and refocus on our domestic economy and workers than on giant corporations saving 10 cents a product by making them in China. | |||
| Our priorities are making that if you work eight hours a day you are able to afford a home, a family, and have a little money left over at the end of the month. We are going to go after the companies that have stolen our money for years, consolidated every market and relied on corporate socialism to destroy their competition. We are going to focus on growing small businesses and making sure essential workers are paid like they are essential and not disposable. We are going to focus on people, not greed. |
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