Deborah Katz Pueschel's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Florida Congressional Election 2012 Political Courage Test
| Pro-life | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| *Save the life of the mother *Assist woman who have been raped or victim of incest to seek medical attention immediately * Conception is the beginning of life; adoption for the innocent life that was conceived | |||
| Do you support United States' combat operations in Afghanistan? | |||
| Do you support a timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan? | |||
| DO THE JOB AND GET OUT! | |||
Indicate which proposals you support (if any) for balancing the federal budget.In order to balance the budget,
| No | do you support reducing defense spending? | ||
| do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? | |||
| do you support reducing Medicaid spending? | |||
| do you support reducing Medicare spending? | |||
| Yes | Is balancing the budget a legislative priority? | ||
| *Balance the budget and eliminate the debt *Defense spending is peanuts *Increasing taxes on any tax bracket will not balance or eliminate the debt *Health/Retirement/Welfare costs are the biggest expenses *Accelerated 401K-Health Saving Account implementation balance the budget sooner than later. A401K-HSA proposed by George Collins. | |||
| Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | |||
| Throughout history any campaign finance regulation has failed. Educating the voters is more important. Strongly encourage federal campaigns to be zeroed out at the end of election cycle as with state and local campaigns with no carry-over. It appears that federal campaign system is a legal form of money laundering. | |||
| Yes | Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes? | ||
| Especially 9/11 perpetrators, massive murderers | |||
| No | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the temporary extension of unemployment benefits? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the 2010 temporary extension of tax relief? | ||
| The Accelerated 401K-HSA would stimulate the economy as energy independence increases. Temporary extension of unemployment benefits would be conditional with a repayment clause based on case by case. FAIR TAX!!!!!! | |||
| Do you support requiring states to implement education reforms in order to be eligible for competitive federal grants? | |||
| Education - return to the local and states control. Federal government can certainly review and comment ------ the controls remain locally. Education starts at birth from parents. | |||
| Yes | Do you support reducing restrictions on offshore energy production? | ||
| Energy is one of the three components of economical recovery. Second is over regulation which is impeding the energy productions. Australia has been using natural gas automobiles manufactured by Holden (General Motors) and Ford for nearly two decades. - Why not America? | |||
| Do you believe that human activity is contributing to climate change? | |||
| Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? | |||
| The solar/sun flare-up and radiation within our Milky Way are more damaging than any human activities. We need to seek ways to decrease solar inducing droughts and other adverse effects on the environments and humans. | |||
| No | Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns? | ||
| GUNS DO NOT KILL PEOPLE. PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE BY GUNS, KNIVES OR FORCE. Promoting (1) truth (2) love (3) not following cult media/personalities | |||
| 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? | ||
| Accelerated 401K-Health Saving Account would address the needs eventually. 2010 Affordable Care is not constitutional correct despite what the Supreme Court ruled - we are facing tryanny from all branches of the government. Free market is the answer. | |||
| Do you support requiring illegal immigrants to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? | |||
| 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? | |||
| Yes | Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration law by state and local police? | ||
| Organize Ellis Island type of clearances: visas with security background checks (eliminates terrorists and criminals) and medical tests/clearances (TB exposures, etc) Is it just for illegals to displace individuals and families seeking to immigrate. Encourage Mexico to stop crony socialism that impoverishes their citizens. | |||
| No | Do you support same-sex marriage? | ||
| Do not violate the 1st Amendment right of freedom of religion upon Judeo-Christians that one man and one woman is marriage. | |||
| Yes | Do you support targeting suspected terrorists outside of official theaters of conflict? | ||
| Yes | Should the U.S use military force in order to prevent Iran from possessing a nuclear weapon? | ||
| In emergency of impeding immediate act of terrorism against the United States. Other cases - review by independents (retirees with security clearances) for trial. Information to be declassifed in 30 years. On selective congressional committees - Member of Congress must have a security clearance prior to assignment. | |||
| Yes | Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts? | ||
| Eliminate welfare and poverty A401K-HSA would benefit individuals of a participatory ethical capitalist investment of their future and heirs. | |||
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.
| Maintain Status | a) Agriculture | ||
| Eliminate | b) Arts | ||
| Greatly Increase | c) Defense | ||
| Greatly Decrease | d) Education | ||
| Greatly Decrease | e) Environment | ||
| Slightly Decrease | f) Homeland Security | ||
| Greatly Decrease | g) International aid | ||
| Maintain Status | h) Medical Research | ||
| Slightly Increase | i) Scientific Research | ||
| Greatly Increase | j) Space exploration | ||
| Eliminate | k) United Nations | ||
| Eliminate | l) Welfare | ||
| Eliminate | a) Capital gains taxes | ||
| b) Corporate taxes | |||
| c) Excise taxes (alcohol) | |||
| d) Excise taxes (cigarettes) | |||
| e) Excise taxes (transportation fuel) | |||
| f) Income taxes (low-income families) | |||
| g) Income taxes (middle-income families) | |||
| h) Income taxes (high-income families) | |||
| Eliminate | i) Inheritance taxes | ||
| j) Payroll taxes | |||
| (a) Solar induced warming-droughts (b) Private funded (I support the arts) (c) Number 1 - Constitutionally (d) Return to the States and local communties (e) Regulations are open to abuse against business and property owners (f) Open to abuse (g) Humanitian/Defense (h) Promote patents/copyrights, reduces regulations protect health and civil society (i) Promote science degrees and stabilize regulations (j) Neutral gravity zone - between earth and sun to block solar radiation (k) Reduce to the original function of preventing wars/dictators (l) Eliminate welfare/poverty A401K-HSA | |||
| FAIR TAX IS THE ANSWER TO PROMOTE THE ECONOMY AND INDIVIDUAL WEALTH. | |||
| Liberty: Americans are losing freedoms as Congress ignores the Founder's determination of limited size of government and power such as Obama-care. With liberty, Economical Recovery is attainable and sustainable with a balanced budget, debt elimination and repealing regulations that stifles businesses. The Fair Tax bridged with the Accelerated 401K-Health Savings Account and Roth Retirement starting at birth liberates the individual from government dependence. Energy independence creates more revenues and border control insures national security. No UN Agenda 21. Do not let our ancestors died in vain only to let the future generations forward on with no liberty and only change. |
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