Mike Beehler's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Mike Beehler has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2020 Political Courage Test.
Kansas Congressional Election 2020 Political Courage Test
| No | 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? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| Third party expenditures by corporations and unions are out of control. | |||
| Yes | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| We must support the troops we have deployed and keep our promises to our veterans. | |||
| No | 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? | ||
| No | Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19? | ||
| No | Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards? | ||
| Education is a state and local school board responsibility | |||
| No | 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? | ||
| I have read the Green New Deal. I understand the GND. It is unachievable especially in the context of a 100-200 year supply of fossil fuel in this ?energy independent? country of ours. | |||
| No | 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? | ||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| DACA should have a legal pathway for citizenship since they came to this country as small children and have lived here for a long time.... | |||
| 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? | ||
| Any act of war towards another country must be by a vote of the Congress. Unilateral decisions by the President are un-Constitutional. | |||
| No | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| Tariffs and quotas are used to negotiate fair trade arrangements amongst countries.... | |||
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