Herbert Peters' Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Herbert Peters has refused to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2018 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.
Issue Positions
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- Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? "Pro-Life" (votesmart.org)
- In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? "Yes" (votesmart.org)
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- Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? "No" (votesmart.org)
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- Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? "No" (votesmart.org)
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- Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")? "Yes" (votesmart.org)
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- Do you support requiring illegal immigrants to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? "No" (votesmart.org)
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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.
| No | Do you support United States' combat operations in Afghanistan? | ||
| Do you support a timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan? | |||
| Bring troops home ASAP. | |||
Indicate which proposals you support (if any) for balancing the federal budget.In order to balance the budget,
| Yes | do you support reducing defense spending? | ||
| No | do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? | ||
| Yes | do you support reducing Medicaid spending? | ||
| Yes | do you support reducing Medicare spending? | ||
| Yes | Is balancing the budget a legislative priority? | ||
| Balancing the budget is urgently essential. We must terminate or phase out of ALL unconstitutional programs. Medicare, unconstitutional, phase out. Medicaid, terminate Obama Care, terminate. | |||
| No | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| Each voter must educate themselves regarding the US Constitution, and must vote accordingly. | |||
| No | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| No | Do you support providing tax incentives to businesses for the purpose of job creation? | ||
| No | Do you support spending on infrastructure projects for the purpose of job creation? | ||
| No | Do you support the temporary extension of unemployment benefits? | ||
| Do you support the 2010 temporary extension of tax relief? | |||
| We are way over taxed; we must phase out the income tax and phase out Social Security. We must quit paying people for NOT working. END ALL Welfare. Expand employment by ending regulations that kill employment; for example we must repeal the "Minimum Wage." We have a very serious problem, German Style Hyperinflation could occur at any time. We must elect a congress that will fix the problems; I hope that there is time. | |||
| No | Do you support requiring states to implement education reforms in order to be eligible for competitive federal grants? | ||
| Get the federal government totally out of either financing or control over education of our children. Education has gone down hill since federal began its financing of education. Education MUST be paid for by the parents with possible help from local communities, churches and charities. | |||
| Yes | Do you support reducing restrictions on offshore energy production? | ||
| We must apply natural law, as provided in the Declaration of Independence. No subsidies. | |||
| No | Do you believe that human activity is contributing to climate change? | ||
| No | Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| The sun is our source of warming; historical studies show that earth warming is cyclic. Attempting to control climate change is an attempt to grow government. We must shrink our government to compliance with the US Constitution. | |||
| Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns? | |||
| One of the safest countries in the world is Switzerland; they have guns in almost every home. Our second amendment provides for a Switzerland type militia. While geographically in the middle of ww1 and ww2 they were able to stay out of those wars and maintain their freedoms primarily because of their militia. | |||
| Yes | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act? | ||
| No | Should individuals be required to purchase health insurance, as mandated in the 2010 Affordable Care Act? | ||
| The capability and quality of health care in our country is adequate, but could get better. Government intrusion DEGRADES quality, availability and cost. Remember, our founders got sick etc, yet they made NO provision for a federal health care scheme. Federal intrusion into health care is unconstitutional. Regardless of what the Supreme Court says. | |||
| Do you support allowing illegal immigrants, who were brought to the United States as minors, to pursue citizenship without returning to their country of origin? | |||
| Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration law by state and local police? | |||
| No | Do you support requiring illegal immigrants to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? | ||
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| Our Creator God allows people to be born all over the world and migration is a God given human right. It is OK to have borders to prevent entry because of crime. Immigrants should be welcome; the Bible says be good to the alien among you. The Bible speaks of fenced cities, not fenced nations. We must get back to natural law regarding labor, when we get this situation corrected we will again grow our economy. Citizenship; a person must know and assimilate the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence before being granted citizenship. | |||
| Unknown Position | Do you support same-sex marriage? | ||
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| We have freedom of Religion, any two people who want to live together can do that. Freedom of Religion would allow 3 or 4 or more. The real issue; who gets survivor benefits? Who gets income tax benefits? While I believe that we must phase out the income tax, while it is still here it must only be used to raise money - NOT for social engineering. The breadwinner in any family situation must provide for survivor benefits; NOT the Government. | |||
| No | Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts? | ||
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| Social Security is unconstitutional, we must phase that program out of existence. With sound money most people could set aside about 10% per year (gov takes about 12%) could out perform Social Security. We must restore sound money and we must restore compliance with the US Constitution. | |||
SpendingIndicate what federal spending levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one number per category; you can use a number more than once.TaxesIndicate what federal tax levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one number per category; you can use a number more than once.
| Eliminate | a) Agriculture | ||
| Eliminate | b) Arts | ||
| Greatly Decrease | c) Defense | ||
| Eliminate | d) Education | ||
| Eliminate | e) Environment | ||
| Eliminate | f) Homeland Security | ||
| Eliminate | g) International aid | ||
| Eliminate | h) Medical Research | ||
| Eliminate | i) Scientific Research | ||
| Eliminate | j) Space exploration | ||
| Eliminate | k) United Nations | ||
| Eliminate | l) Welfare | ||
| m) Other or expanded categories | |||
| Slightly Decrease | a) Capital gains taxes | ||
| Eliminate | b) Corporate taxes | ||
| Slightly Decrease | c) Excise taxes (alcohol) | ||
| Slightly Decrease | d) Excise taxes (cigarettes) | ||
| Greatly Decrease | e) Excise taxes (transportation fuel) | ||
| Slightly Increase | f) Income taxes (low-income families) | ||
| Greatly Decrease | g) Income taxes (middle-income families) | ||
| Greatly Decrease | h) Income taxes (high-income families) | ||
| Eliminate | i) Inheritance taxes | ||
| Eliminate | j) Payroll taxes | ||
| Greatly Decrease | k) Other or expanded categories | ||
| The federal government must pay for the operation of the congress, the courts and the constitutional agencies. Unconstitutional agencies should be phase out. | |||
| At this time we are fighting for survival; hyperinflation with a Great Depression so severe that it will make the 1929 depression seem like a recession. To survive we must get back to compliance with the US Constitution. We must: Restore Sound Money, Balance the budget, Bring the troops home, End all foreign aid and domestic subsidies, Phase out of Social Security, Phase out of Medicare, Terminate federal meddling in health care and education; and Terminate all agencies that are not provided for in the Constitution. |
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