Martin Etwop's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Issue Positions
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- "Life begins at conception. "Before I formed you in your motherâs womb I knew you." I will stand for and defend the life of the unborn and fight to take away from Biden and Pelosi the power to fund abortions with tax-payer money. " (www.martinetwop.com)
- "If Americans must be taxed, they deserve a tax where they are only taxed on what they purchase, not on the income they earn. The consumption tax. This will simplify our convoluted tax system, and in fact, it will even help us get rid of all the unnecessary IRS audits and the IRS itself. That is the tax system that I propose and support." (www.martinetwop.com)
- "I will work with like-minded Americans in Congress to return America to fiscal responsibility through controlled spending. Our national debt has become unbearable, and unfortunately, our children will be made to pay for the current reckless spending. We have to save our childrenâs futures by going back to responsible spending." (www.martinetwop.com)
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- "Quality education for our children is a fundamental right. I will advocate and ensure that school choice is available to all Americans, and will legislate the elimination of liberal indoctrination of our K-12 children, and ban the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) in our schools. Instead of CRT, I will propose the teaching of financial literacy in all schools." (www.martinetwop.com)
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- "The defense of ones life, family and home is the most important responsibility an individual has. I will fight to ensure that every American who wants to is able to exercise their second amendment rights." (www.martinetwop.com)
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- "A nationâs sovereignty begins with how it protects its borders. I will fight to reinforce our borders by completing the wall, installing hi-tech border monitoring equipment, hiring more border patrol officers, and protecting against illegal immigration and lawlessness." (www.martinetwop.com)
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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-life | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| I believe that life begins at conception all through natural death | |||
| 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? | ||
| Increasing taxes and more spending is not the solution to our nation's problem. Our problem is controlling our spending, living within our means and ending the wanton borrowing from the CCP | |||
| No | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct? | ||
| If the conduct happened within their normal cause of business, then our officials need to be protected from doing their jobs. | |||
| Yes | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| Our increase should depend on the defense needs of the nation, not increase just for the sake of increase | |||
| 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? | ||
| We cannot keep spending the money we do not have. Rather, we should open up all businesses instead of these ridiculous mandates and shutdowns. | |||
| No | Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards? | ||
| Education is a State and individual decision, not federal | |||
| 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? | ||
| No | Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| Gun ownership is the only means of Americans defending themselves from tyranny and thugs | |||
| 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 government should not be requiring companies to bail it out from shutdowns brought about by its policies | |||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| A nation without borders is not a sovereign nation. The United States needs to enforce its immigration laws immediately. | |||
| 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? | ||
| No | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| My top priorities are: -immediately applying our immigration laws as written by Congress, not from a memo written by the president, AG or DHS secretary -immediately ending our out of control spending and passing a balanced budget amendment -putting an end to socialism and crt indoctrination |
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