Liam Madden's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Liam Madden 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.
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- "Winning an election under the current system requires hundreds of thousands of dollars. This excludes most working class people from participating, and gives inherent advantage to the kinds of representatives with access to, and perhaps disproportionate sympathies for the economically elite. We must publicly fund elections and provide more comprehensive debate about substantive policy issues." (rebirthdemocracy.com)
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- "Invest $5-25 billion into better mass transit and walkable city planning and infrastructure." (rebirthdemocracy.com)
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- "Hard Fact- Solar and wind alone cannot replace fossil fuels. We must invest $200 billion in a new generation of nuclear. Learn More." (rebirthdemocracy.com)
- "Invest $30-100 billion in Manhattan Project style, Swing for the fences technological advances in energy storage and generation that makes our current best bets, solar, wind and nuclear look pre-historic. This investment should include expansion on recent breakthroughs in geothermal and Hydrino technology." (rebirthdemocracy.com)
- "We need to invest in energy sources that cause less pollution and will last longer. Professor Nate Hagans of the University of Minnesota cites that if we grow our economy at 3% per year, we will use the same amount of energy in the next three decades as we have in the last 10,000 years. That is impossible." (rebirthdemocracy.com)
- "We need to invest in energy sources that cause less pollution and will last longer. Professor Nate Hagans of the University of Minnesota cites that if we grow our economy at 3% per year, we will use the same amount of energy in the next three decades as we have in the last 10,000 years. That is impossible." (rebirthdemocracy.com)
- "I support expanded background checks, but I do not think they will go very far in addressing the problem of mass shootings. I believe most mass shootings were, or could have been done by people who passed background checks. Likewise, most mass shootings were, or could have been done with weapons that dont qualify as the largely arbitrarily defined assault weapons. (rebirthdemocracy.com)
- "While I support Medicare for all over the alternative of fully privatized and extractive health care industries, I think even M4A is missing the larger picture, which is that even with government health insurance, hospitals costs are not subject to the moderating forces of competition in an open marketplace. The market has failed in this industry. We pay more than any other country for worse results." (rebirthdemocracy.com)
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- Sevendaysvt: "By supporting the Prescription Drug Price Relief Act, so Americans don't pay twice as much as Canadians. Additionally, in service of creating a system of universal and affordable care, we should subsidize the costs of medical school for doctors willing to serve in federally funded, locally controlled, democratically managed health care clinics." (www.sevendaysvt.com)
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