Christopher Helali's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Christopher Helali has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2020 Political Courage Test.
Vermont Congressional Election 2020 Political Courage Test
| Pro-choice | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| Women should have the right to control their own bodies and make their own choices. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Move money from a war economy to a peace economy. Tax the rich. Nationalize major industries. Abolish capitalism and move to a socialist economy. | |||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| No | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| Cut the military budget by well over 50%. Abolish the military-industrial complex. Abolish NATO. Remove all US troops from abroad and close all foreign military bases. | |||
| 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 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 generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| Communists (Marxist-Leninists) believe that gun ownership is a class right. The working class should be armed against the capitalist ruling class and their armed gangs and lackeys. In an Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League in 1850, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels stated, "The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens' militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed...Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary." | |||
| 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? | ||
| Free, universal, high quality healthcare to all persons in the United States! | |||
| 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? | ||
| We should make immigration easier to the United States while at the same time ending the US empire and stopping the wars and conflicts that destabilize nations and lead to mass migration. | |||
| 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? | ||
| No | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| I do not believe in "free trade" but in the mutual aid, solidarity, and cooperation amongst nations when it comes to everything, including trade. | |||
| My main priority if elected will be to struggle against U.S.-NATO imperialism. This means ending all the wars, withdrawing U.S. troops from all foreign military bases, abolishing NATO, and cutting the military budget to the bare minimum. The United States should work towards nuclear disarmament and towards peace with Russia, China, the DPRK, and Iran. This will allow us to transform the economy from a war economy to a peace economy in line with socialist principles and development. |
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