Joshua Throneburg's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Joshua Throneburg did not provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2022 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.
Issue Positions
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- "Thats why Josh supports Medicare for All, which guarantees access to healthcare for all Americans while helping curb the out-of-control costs that exist in our current broken system." (joshforvirginia.com)
- "Expand Medicaid to cover pregnant people throughout pregnancy and through the first year after pregnancy. Virginia has led the way for postpartum Medicaid expansion: these rights need to be extended to people across the US." (joshforvirginia.com)
- "This is a battle happening on every level: federal, state, local. Expanding the Voting Rights Act as far as we possibly can should be a goal; we also need to end Citizens United, because the effect has been to flood campaigns with dark money and distort democracy." (twitter.com)
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- "Expanding funding for Federal Transit Administration Grants to fund investments in light rail that will connect our districts transportation hubs, and help secure funds for buses, subways and trolleys inside our smaller towns and cities." (joshforvirginia.com)
- "Infrastructure funding. COVID relief for localities. Nutrition assistance for kids. Investments in transit. Money to help homeless veterans and fund suicide prevention programs. Funds to improve security and integrity of elections. Community policing. Lead mitigation. Child care." (twitter.com)
- "Making significant infrastructure investments to help communities build resilience to climate change, including federal funds to help state and local governments bury power lines, replace aging, brittle asphalt with permeable pavers, and build seawalls to mitigate the effects of a rapidly changing climate." (joshforvirginia.com)
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- "Figuring out what policies can be changed on the federal level to fight inflation is something he is still learning. Spending is part of it, but there are also some pieces of fiscal policy that haven't been done as thoughtfully as they could be." (twitter.com)
- "Guaranteeing that high school graduates can continue their education without being crushed under a mountain of debt by expanding eligibility for Pell Grants, capping interest rates on federal student loans at 2%, and expanding the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program to cover more students." (joshforvirginia.com)
- "I think weve got to forgive a significant amount of student debt; its clear that loans + wage stagnation have made it impossible for at least two generations to fully participate in the economy or save meaningfully. Millennials and Gen Z have gotten a uniquely raw deal." (twitter.com)
- "The Freedom to Vote Act which would protect our right to vote, limit gerrymandering and help get big money out of politics." (joshforvirginia.com)
- "The John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which would restore several parts of the Voting Rights Act and make sure that states cannot enact voting laws that would disproportionality disadvantage minority populations." (joshforvirginia.com)
- "An immediate, just transition to renewable energy sources, with incentives for individuals and businesses to make the switch away from fossil fuels and toward wind, solar, hydro and biofuels. A just transition for fossil fuel workers guarantees salary matches, housing assistance, affordable healthcare, pension support, job training, and priority job placement." (joshforvirginia.com)
- "Investing in renewables. The 5th is already leading the way on this in VA: in fact, of the new solar storage projects that were just announced, four are in the here (Buckingham, Powhatan, Mecklenburg & Halifax). A carbon tax would help with this work." (twitter.com)
- "Josh supports the Green New Deal, which would put thousands of Virginians to work creating and manufacturing cutting-edge green energy technology, rebuilding our infrastructure, and helping redress air and water pollution. Josh will fight for good union jobs here in Virginia that will stop extracting precious resources from our land and begin healing the planet." (joshforvirginia.com)
- "Creating a progressive corporate tax on all carbon emissions from giant energy conglomerates. A carbon tax will help us decarbonize while generating approximately $200 billion over 20 years. We can use that to prevent energy corporations from passing on the costs to ratepayers" (twitter.com)
- "I wanted to lift up the latest #ipcc report on climate change, outlined here. The latest report makes it very clear what we need to do: we've got to cut emissions in half in eight years and zero out carbon pollution by 2050. But there are also some steps we can take to get there!" (twitter.com)
- "This is a BIG deal and a real win for climate. Companies will now have to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and also be transparent about how vulnerable they are to climate change. Wise decisions require good data, and this will help a lot." (twitter.com)
- "Building a robust system of interstate background checks on all gun sales to prevent people who shouldnt have guns from exploiting the massive loopholes in our current background check laws." (joshforvirginia.com)
- "Banning permitless carry nationwide. Josh supports safe use of firearms by trained, law-abiding gun owners and supports ending permitless carry so everyone can be certain that anyone carrying a weapon has the training to use it correctly." (joshforvirginia.com)
- "The solutions to our broken healthcare system are complex, but we must build a system that helps people gain access, reduce costs, and improve outcomes. I support Medicare for All, which guarantees access to healthcare for all Americans while helping curb out-of-control costs." (twitter.com)
- "Pass a permanent family and medical leave law such as the Family and Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) act, to protect the 80% of private-sector workers who currently have no access to paid leave to care for a new child." (twitter.com)
- "Allowing Medicare to negotiate prices for prescription drugs, limit the extent to which drug companies can raise drug prices, and cap out-of-pocket drug costs for Medicare/Medicaid users to mirror Affordable Care Act practices." (joshforvirginia.com)
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- "Definitely not a supporter of the middle-class tax hike that the Republicans are proposing, which is just a mechanism for the rich to get richer at the expense of everyone else." (twitter.com)
- "Carving out estate tax protections for small farms, eliminating capital gains taxes for farm inheritances and creating a plan for structured staggered repayment of delinquent farm taxes. Nobody should lose their family land because they are too tax-burdened to pass it on." (twitter.com)
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