John Bourgeois' Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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John Bourgeois has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2020 Political Courage Test.
Louisiana Congressional Election 2020 Political Courage Test
| Unknown Position | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
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| All life is sacred and needs protection. The promotion of preventive reproductive services is necessary for economic growth and citizen well-being. These services include: Performing Cancer Screenings Having STD Testing Providing Birth Control They lessen the economic burden of the neediest Louisiana citizens on the government while improving quality of life for all. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Entitlement is the wrong term. These are programs that American workers have paid into all their working lives. These programs are not entitlements; they are returns on investment and should be fully funded. Workers invested in the US government with the faith that the government would do right by them. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| There's too much money in politics. Get it out! 94% of races are won by the candidate who spends the most. | |||
| No | Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct? | ||
| Laws must be equally enforced. Qualified immunity gives federal agents and prosecutors means to not be held responsible for their actions. This is not acceptable of the citizenry; it should not be acceptable for those enforcing the law. | |||
| No | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| No, there is so much waste in the military. Besides, military contracts go to corporations who pay lobbyists to bribe Congress to increase military funding for contractors. It is graft, pure and simple. We need to invest in our veterans. Not the military. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Yes | Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards? | ||
| If the Federal government requires testing, then the Federal government should pay for it. With high-stakes testing taking so much time from other instruction, then those demanding the testing should foot the bill. | |||
| 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? | ||
| 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? | ||
| It should be a condition of receiving Federal relief funds. | |||
| No | 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? | ||
| 1) DACA kids are Americans and should have an easy pathway to citizenship. 2) Overstaying visas is the main source of illegal immigrants in this country. They should not have amnesty from prosecution and deportation. Now, if illegal immigrants are filling jobs that could otherwise be filled by Americans, the legal repercussions should fall more heavily on the employer rather than the employee. 3) We have a moral obligation to accept refugees. If they can provide reasonable evidence of persecution in their home country, then while their applications are being reviewed, we have to care for these people. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Yes | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| The acknowledgement that all life is sacred and deserves protection. Our current representation has voted against protecting pre-existing conditions 100% of the time, despite having been a physician for Louisiana's uninsured. I will protect those with these conditions. Furthermore, I would support universal preventative care, from prenatal through geriatric, to address any health issues before they become more serious i.e. more expensive. Poor infrastructure costs Louisianans $2,000,000,000 annually. We need to invest in training to create a pathway to develop skills for infrastructure jobs. The taxes from these good-paying jobs would pay for the initial investment to increase training. |
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