Eugene Douglass' Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
On The Ballot: Running, Republican for U.S. House (NC) - District 2
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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? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade? | ||
| No | Do you support expanding federal funding to support social safety net programs such as Social Security and Medicare? | ||
| Yes | Do you support a decrease in income taxes in order to balance the budget? | ||
| No | Do you support a wealth tax in order to pay for public programs? | ||
| Social Security and Medicare should be properly means tested, to retain services and funding for those whose jobs did not have pensions, or were low income and so contributed less than the max they could for the most monthly check. | |||
| No | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations, unions, and individuals? | ||
| Yes | Do you support protecting government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct? | ||
| Overall yes, but if convicted of crimes related to their misconduct, proving in court their behavior was done illegally or reckless disregard they perps essentially would open themselves up for liability. Particularly for members of congress who lie publicly to the press as a head of an intelligence committee, and then when exposed as a liar, they become liable for slander and other personal civil lawsuits, because they abused their position of trust to uphold the US Constitution | |||
| No | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| No, not unless money is redistributed first, the money already available needs to be directed towards the Constitutional function of the Defense department, not used to circumvent the rights according to the US Constitution that American Citizens have of free speech and assembly. DARPA, and other defense department entities were actively underminding President Trump, and moving the Defense department away from it's constitutional mission to defend our Union from outside enemies and threats, and terrorists who come to our country to commit crimes and terrorism. When my above concerns have been addressed, we need proper defense spending, because peace comes from real military strength and honor in the right ways. | |||
| No | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth (e.g. grants, tax incentives)? | ||
| No | Do you support the federal government increasing funding for affordable housing programs? | ||
| No | Do you support the federal government taking action, beyond those of the Federal Reserve, to alleviate inflation? | ||
| Cut taxes, and severely cut federal regulations. END all federal regulations that duplicate State, City and Local regulations. END the department of Education, and other needless agencies. Wasteful spending and printing money to pay for it, making the national debt much bigger promotes inflation. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the forgiveness of federal student loan debt? | ||
| ONLY Through bankruptcy, and proper means for those who were unable for reasons outside of their control to get jobs to pay off the debts due to illness, death in the family, and severe financial hardship outside of the control of those who incurred it. The 20 and 25 year terms for forgiveness for those who followed the law as written was a good plan. It was corrupt to forbid the forgiveness of debt through bankruptcy, and those who made the interest rates of repayment 8% and higher with the ability to be compounded, essentially made the current system corrupt and unworkable. | |||
| Yes | Do you support requiring a government-issued identification in order to vote at the polls? | ||
| RealID, proving US Citizenship, and enable people to vote ONCE per election. | |||
| No | Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the federal government allowing permits for drilling on public lands? | ||
| No | Do you support a government-run (e.g. single-payer) healthcare program, such as Medicare-for-All? | ||
| No | Do you support expanding paid family AND/OR medical leave benefits (e.g. maternity leave)? | ||
| Yes | Should the government be able to regulate the cost of prescription drugs? | ||
| Yes, ONLY for medicare/medicaid, VA, where the negotiation benefits those in need of the medication. And preferably providing legislation for consumer groups, employers, and insurance companies to do likewise, private competition. | |||
| Yes | Do you support increasing security along the southern US border? | ||
| Yes | Do you support requiring immigrants to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship, regardless of their immigration status? | ||
| CLOSE the border and deport those who entered under the Biden administration ignoring the federal regulations or choosing not to enforce them. Make those who have real asylum claims to get inline, like those legally trying to immigrate/ | |||
| No | Do you support economic intervention as a means of resolving international conflicts? | ||
| No | Do you support the US providing increased offensive military aid to Ukraine? | ||
| There are always workarounds, and the war between Russia and the Stalin Constructed country of Ukraine has been going on between corrupt tribes and factions for hundreds of years. Much of the aid we sent to Ukriane has been siphoned off and ended up with Hamas and other terrorist organizations, making middle men in Ukraine richer and us poorer. | |||
| No | Do you generally support increased regulations on social media companies (e.g. Tik Tok, Facebook, etc.)? | ||
| No, not now, as Missouri V Biden and other cases has shown, the federal government has been using social media companies to infringe on the rights of Americans for free speech. The federal government has essentially been acting to protect favored social media from lawsuits of Americans whose rights have been infringed. Some regulation, to protect Americans from real terrorists, pedophiles and others who use those services for criminal purposes, is needed. | |||
| 1. LOWER TAXES, SIMPLIFY THE TAX CODE, VASTLY CUT SPENDING - A lower flat rate, with minimal deductions, for individuals and businesses. A real balanced budget amendment, with paying back the federal debt. 2. LESS GOVERNMENT REGULATION End the Censorship Big Brother push. Bring back power to the states, with less interference by the federal government in state and local affairs. State and local governments, businesses and individuals spend too much time and money to keep the Federal Bureaucracy happy. 3. LOCAL CONTROL OF EDUCATION. Elementary and Secondary education needs to be under the control of state and local entities. The Federal Government spends far too much money supporting a bureaucracy in Washington D.C., developing fancy educational policies that hinder the proper education of our children. Control of education needs to be brought back to the State and local level to be more responsive to the needs of our children. End DEI and Woke nonsense in education, back to the essentials, Reading, Writing, the Science and Mathematics to prepare students for the future, and college if they choose. 4. A TRUE LOOKING AFTER THE RIGHTS OF INNOCENT CHILDREN AND ADULTS. Protect innocent human life, from conception until natural death. Free from molestation, mistreatment and even others deciding their lives are not worth living. Partial birth abortion is a totally unnecessary gruesome medical procedure that needlessly ends the life of an almost-born baby boy or girl. We can end that, and advocate for at least the protection of innocent children from conception onwards. The states regulating those procedures with the desire to end eugenics or genocide with a ?kind face?, of which Planned Barrenhood pushes on women who find themselves desperate. Likewise, the philosophy of ending the unwanted life has got to end, and that would include the protecting of children from mentally ill adults who want to cut off their body parts, and those elderly who have become too much trouble to live on under care. Only GOD has the right to choose our sex, and when we live or die! |
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