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Matt Loesby's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

On The Ballot: Running, Libertarian for U.S. Senate (ID) - Jr

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Issue Positions

For Presidential and Congressional candidates who refuse to provide voters with their positions, Vote Smart has researched their public records to determine their likely responses. These issue positions are from 2024.

  • "I would oppose a national abortion ban, because the Constitution does not grant the US Congress the authority to make laws regarding homicide in any state. I would support a ban within DC, though, since Congress does have direct authority there." (x.com)
  • "The objective reality of abortion is that the procedure involves the death of a developing human life in the womb, followed by its removal. Calling it homicide, as I do, is a subjective classification; so is calling it an act of health care." (x.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Social Security needs to end immediately. Those who "paid" in should receive every cent they had stolen from them. Those who have begun receiving SS Checks would have that amount discounted by their receipts so far. This is the least bad, moderate option." (twitter.com)
  • "I am calling for a full tax revolt. They'll print the money anyway, but they can at least do it without robbing us directly as they plot to enslave our sons to die in Europe once again." (x.com)
  • "Stop voting to fund so many government departments and then it'd be viable to eliminate all income taxes." (x.com)
  • "I am calling for a full tax revolt. They'll print the money anyway, but they can at least do it without robbing us directly as they plot to enslave our sons to die in Europe once again." (x.com)
  • "Stop voting to fund so many government departments and then it'd be viable to eliminate all income taxes." (x.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Sterling understands the most important part of government action: what the police enforce. Elmore County should elect a man who will stand between them and the Feds to defend their rights." (twitter.com)
  • "Absolutely not. The Global American Empire is evil, stealing our wealth to finance its military and cultural conquest of the globe, annihilating parochial beauty and replacing it with corporate/state homogeneity." (twitter.com)
  • "The culture the Global American Empire spreads is not one of Liberty, and other countries' defense is their business, not ours. Same goes for shipping lanes; the shipping companies should be responsible for their own security, not the US Navy." (twitter.com)
  • Ballotpedia "War - the Global American Empire uses young American men as the footsoldiers for its imperialism and corporate handouts. The soldiers should all come home, and tasked to defend us against the blowback the Empire has incited." (ballotpedia.org)
  • "Exactly what will make Congress stop spending more money per day than any person can conceive. Another committee. Republican politicians are a joke." (twitter.com)
  • "If there are no spending cuts, tax cuts are meaningless. The Federal Reserve will continue to debase our savings and encourage hedonistic spending." (twitter.com)
  • "The vaunted Republican leadership, everyone. Same old, same old. Spending bill, that keeps government agencies open, with less than 2 days between release and vote? That's three strikes before even seeing how $1,200,000,000,000 is going to be spent, destroying your savings." (twitter.com)
  • "Yes, the massive spending spree this administration went on in 2021, along with the previous administration's 2020 spending spree, has been mostly incorporated throughout the price system. Things are still way more expensive, and getting more expensive." (twitter.com)
  • "End the Federal Reserve, close the border, and abolish the many subsidies and regulations in the housing and mortgage industries. Entrepreneurs and customers in a legitimate free market will solve the issue within a couple of years." (twitter.com)
  • "If there are no spending cuts, tax cuts are meaningless. The Federal Reserve will continue to debase our savings and encourage hedonistic spending." (twitter.com)
  • "End the Federal Reserve, close the border, and abolish the many subsidies and regulations in the housing and mortgage industries." (twitter.com)
  • "It is good when the government bans itself from implementing unjust practices. It would be better to abolish the Department of Education, stop guaranteeing student loans, and open colleges up to false advertising lawsuits from indebted alumni. That's a federal task. I'll do it." (twitter.com)
  • "There wasn't even any need to go into the corruption related to Ukraine back in the final days of the Obama administration. Biden's administration announced that they would take actions which they knew were unconstitutional, with the student loan vote buy scheme. Impeachable." (twitter.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "We don't need a 200 page bill. Abolish the EPA. Unregulate all the energy industries, including removing caps and negotiated settlements for environmental damages. End all energy-related regulations, taxes, and subsidies. Open up resource exploration on all government land." (twitter.com)
  • "We don't need a 200 page bill. Abolish the EPA. Unregulate all the energy industries, including removing caps and negotiated settlements for environmental damages. End all energy-related regulations, taxes, and subsidies. Open up resource exploration on all government land." (twitter.com)
  • "Guns are a natural right. Ship me a 50 cal sniper rifle, a tank, and a mounted machine gun." (twitter.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "End the Federal Reserve, close the border, and abolish the many subsidies and regulations in the housing and mortgage industries." (twitter.com)
  • "The Middle East and Ukraine are not Americans' business. As for the border, the only thing Congress needs to do is impeach and remove every official ordering BPD not to enforce it, including Biden and Harris." (twitter.com)
  • "The President's administration already has all the funding and authority it needs to deploy National Guard and BPD to the border and enforce it vigorously. They don't, because they don't want to." (twitter.com)
  • "The only Legislative action needed to the border issues is impeachment of the officials refusing to defend the border. There are lots of them, but starting at the top and working down seems reasonable." (twitter.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Absolutely not. The Global American Empire is evil, stealing our wealth to finance its military and cultural conquest of the globe, annihilating parochial beauty and replacing it with corporate/state homogeneity." (twitter.com)
  • "How about you stop voting to fund overseas deployments so there aren't so many veterans of foreign wars? Mind you, the last foreign war declared by the Congress ended in 1945." (twitter.com)
  • "Not the first time, and almost certainly not the last. We must end all foreign aid, especially to Israel, and bring all the troops home." (twitter.com)
  • "You're powerful enough not to need any American foreign aid money, then? Best shut down AIPAC, it's not needed any more." (twitter.com)
  • "Absolutely not. The Global American Empire is evil, stealing our wealth to finance its military and cultural conquest of the globe, annihilating parochial beauty and replacing it with corporate/state homogeneity." (twitter.com)
  • "Not the first time, and almost certainly not the last. We must end all foreign aid, especially to Israel, and bring all the troops home." (twitter.com)
  • "The Middle East and Ukraine are not Americans' business. As for the border, the only thing Congress needs to do is impeach and remove every official ordering BPD not to enforce it, including Biden and Harris." (twitter.com)
  • "The culture the Global American Empire spreads is not one of Liberty, and other countries' defense is their business, not ours. Same goes for shipping lanes; the shipping companies should be responsible for their own security, not the US Navy." (twitter.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.

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