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Ted Brown's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Ted Brown did not 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

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  • Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? "Pro Choice, I believe in a woman's right to choose an abortion up to the point where the baby could be delivered and survive outside the womb. However, I opposed taxpayer-funded abortions." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare? "No" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • "I want to combine massive spending cuts into a single package that includes the largest tax cut in American history — the total repeal of the federal income tax. The 100.6 million Americans who pay federal income tax would each see an average of $25,844 per person back in their pockets." (tedbrown.org)
  • "Taxes are always too high, at the federal, state, and local levels. Elected officials are thirsty for more of our money to finance their programs and big plans (or more accurately, boondoggles) and to pay off their big campaign contributors." (tedbrown.org)
  • In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? "No" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? "No" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct? No, I would eliminate qualified immunity. Police officers and other government officials must be held personally accountable when they violate peoples' constitutional rights." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Do you support increasing defense spending? "No, The U. S. spends more on the military each year than the next 9 nations combined. We need to cut the military budget and withdraw our troops from foreign countries and foreign wars." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
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  • Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)? "No" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
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  • Do you generally support gun-control legislation? "No, I am a strong supporter of the 2nd Amendment and the individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • "Health care is not a right or a privilege. It’s a service, and like other goods and services, it should be provided by free-market competition." (tedbrown.org)
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  • Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border? "No, It needs to be easier to immigrate here legally. Immigrants are a benefit to this country." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? "No"
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  • "Additionally, our government currently gives $66 billion of our tax dollars to 164 countries for foreign aid. Some of the aid is military and some is humanitarian, but it is primarily the transfer of wealth from American taxpayers to the elite of other countries. I will work to end all foreign aid payments." (tedbrown.org)
  • "Attorneys for Tik Tok and its content producers were in federal court yesterday to argue against the new law that would require Tik Tok to be sold to a U. S. company or face being banned in the the U. S. The question is whether the law violates the First Amendment and should be struck down. In my opinion, they have no such right to control what social media we use." (x.com)
This candidate has responded to a Political Courage Test in a previous election. As a continued effort to provide the American public with factual information on candidates running for public office, these archived responses are made available here.
Pro-choice Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
I believe in a woman's right to choose an abortion up to the point where the baby could be delivered and survive outside the womb. However, I opposed taxpayer-funded abortions.
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?
No Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
No Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct?
I would eliminate qualified immunity. Police officers and other government officials must be held personally accountable when they violate peoples' constitutional rights.
No Do you support increasing defense spending?
The U. S. spends more on the military each year than the next 9 nations combined. We need to cut the military budget and withdraw our troops from foreign countries and foreign wars.
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?
Yes Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19?
I would not give direct subsidies of taxpayer money, but I would suspend their tax and regulatory burdens.
No Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
The federal government should have no role in education, which is a state and local issue. I would eliminate the federal Department of Education completely.
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?
There needs to be some controls in this area, but I'm skeptical that proposed regulations will have the intended effect.
No Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
I am a strong supporter of the 2nd Amendment and the individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense.
Yes 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?
The usual rules should apply, presuming that if someone has COVID-19, they are entitled to the same benefits as other sick people.
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?
It needs to be easier to immigrate here legally. Immigrants are a benefit to this country.
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 U. S. should not be involved in foreign conflicts and foreign wars, including in the Middle East. I would withdraw U. S. troops and close U. S. military bases abroad.
Yes Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
I am a strong supporter of free trade. I'm opposed to Trump trade wars, tariffs, etc.
1) End marijuana prohibition; remove marijuana from the federal schedule of controlled substances; and pardon current and former federal prisoners convicted of non-violent drug offenses 2) End foreign wars and military interventions; close most U. S. military bases abroad; and adopt a peaceful foreign policy 3) Cut federal spending and regulation across the board, in every government agency and department; this level of national debt is not sustainable and will wreck our economy in the future

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