Aditya Atholi's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Issue Positions
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- "I believe Roe vs. Wade was decided by activist judges and feel that it should have been left to the States like the Founders intended, not the Courts." (atholiforcongress.com)
- "There is no issue more important than saving the lives of countless, innocent, unborn babies like my buddy I grew up with. The people of the first district will always have a voice for the unborn if they elect me to Congress." (atholiforcongress.com)
- "I support a federal flat tax that would simplify the tax code, and would make things fairer and more efficient. A flat tax would also spur economic growth, put more money into the hands of small businesses and families, and force Washington to reduce federal spending, which is out of control." (atholiforcongress.com)
- "We must reduce spending, pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, and rein in bloated federal programs that blindly throw money at issues without focusing where that money needs to go." (atholiforcongress.com)
- "We must always help those in need with a hand up rather than a hand out, which is why we need to shore up social programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Those programs need to be reformed and made solvent for future generations of Americans." (atholiforcongress.com)
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- "We must reduce spending, pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, and rein in bloated federal programs that blindly throw money at issues without focusing where that money needs to go." (atholiforcongress.com)
- "The role for the federal government is to get out of the way and let the free market work. Capitalism is the greatest economic system there is to allocate scarce resources efficiently and to create wealth, reduce poverty, lower infant mortality, and generally improve standards of living." (atholiforcongress.com)
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- "School Choice. Now. Shrink the Department of Education (or completely eliminate) to a supporting role. The Department of Education is the reason why 1/5 high school graduates canât read at a 12th grade level and why tuition at 4yr universities costs so much. The stats speak for themselves." (atholiforcongress.com)
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- "The right to defend yourself, your family, and your community, is sacrosanct in America, and I will always fight any attempt at more gun control, especially gun registration and confiscation." (atholiforcongress.com)
- "Hereâs the federal budget in 2020. Rising healthcare costs are the biggest driver of our debt. The Solution? Repeal and Replace Obamacare with a free market system, and block grants to States. That Simple." (twitter.com)
- "We must work again to Repeal and Replace Obamacare." (atholiforcongress.com)
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- "We must finish the wall along the southern border." (atholiforcongress.com)
- Lufkin Daily News ""The solution is not complicated. Control our border just like every other developed and most developing countries on the planet do. Deport illegal immigrants who have been caught breaking other laws, just like we would do for any other international lawbreaker. Work with poor central American countries to help them through issues so that people arenât forced to leave everything theyâve ever known to make the dangerous journey north. This is all common sense, shows compassion toward immigrants, and compassion toward our working and middle class." (www.google.com)
- "We must crack down on illegal immigration, while welcoming legal immigrants to America. A nation without borders is not a nation at all." (atholiforcongress.com)
- "We are not the worldâs policeman. We have plenty of problems to fix here at home. If we are pulled into a fight for good reason, we must fight quickly, forcefully and with the full moral and physical might of the United States. Stop the unending foreign wars which are the sole creation of weak leaders in DC." (atholiforcongress.com)
- Lufkin Daily News: ""Here in 2021, one of the few things that vast majorities of Americans agree on is that we are tired of our endless wars. We are all tired of American lives and money being spent with a lack of results to show for it." (www.google.com)
- "We are not the worldâs policeman. We have plenty of problems to fix here at home. If we are pulled into a fight for good reason, we must fight quickly, forcefully and with the full moral and physical might of the United States. Stop the unending foreign wars which are the sole creation of weak leaders in DC." (atholiforcongress.com)
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