Taylor Whichard IV's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Taylor Whichard IV has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2022 Political Courage Test.
Texas Congressional Election 2022 Political Courage Test
| 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? | ||
| The Federal Government needs to cut wasteful spending and stop fraud before expanding any funding. | |||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| As long as they operated within their organization's policies and did not knowingly violate any laws during the alleged incident. | |||
| Yes | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| Only if spending is reduced in other parts of the budget. Our military and defense capabilities need to be upgraded to stay one step ahead of our enemy. | |||
| 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? | ||
| As a small business owner, I can speak to this first hand. The financial assistance provided to our small business during COVID-19 saved it from closing and we are still open. It also saved a lot of peoples jobs. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Regulations are necessary to protect our environment. However, the federal government has set standards unreasonably high in such a short amount of time that companies and science are constantly playing catch-up. | |||
| No | 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? | ||
| Some businesses can not afford to do that. | |||
| 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? | ||
| 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? | ||
| Yes | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| Education - implementation of school choice, and getting back to the basics of reading, writing, arithmetic, and factual based history. Removal of the Department of Education, and giving the power back to state and local jurisdictions. Border Security/Immigration - Finish the wall and give the Border Security the tools, resources, and political support they need to keep our border secure. We must enforce the Remain in Mexico policy. We were founded on immigration, and I support that tradition. However, it must be done legally. Uncontrolled Federal Spending - We are broke. It's time to stop frivolous spending. |
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