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Robin Ficker's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

On The Ballot: Running, Republican for U.S. House (MD) - District 6

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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.

  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Stop borrowing and printing money to pay for unaffordable programs." (voteficker.com)
  • "If our elected officials were as quick to provide vaccines as they are to raise our taxes, we would be be safer." (twitter.com)
  • "Maryland has the sixth highest rate of migration of families earning $200,000/yr of all the states primarily because of its 5.5% state income tax plus local piggyback income tax." (twitter.com)
  • "Our campaign for Governor is the ONLY one to cut taxes on those hit hardest by inflation. Cut MD sales tax 2 cents or $780/yr./household." (twitter.com)
  • "The high cost of living, above-average health care costs, exorbitant taxes and soaring home prices are all pushing Marylanders to look elsewhere for jobs and an affordable retirement." (twitter.com)
  • "Cut the chit chat and start the skit skat to open the county. Shutdown, tax increase politics is bad for us all." (twitter.com)
  • "Maryland is focused on increasing your taxes and being #MarylandLAST to open." (twitter.com)
  • "Marylanders are already burdened enough with high taxes and Joe Biden’s inflation. I am OPPOSED to any new taxes on Marylanders and I urge you to call your representatives and tell them to vote NO. #NoTaxIncrease #VoteNo" (twitter.com)
  • "The high cost of living, above-average health care costs, exorbitant taxes and soaring home prices are all pushing Marylanders to look elsewhere for jobs and an affordable retirement." (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.
  • "$34 TRILLION in US debt, but 0 efforts by current administration to cut spending!" (twitter.com)
  • "Ben Cardin has spent 57 years in office increasing government spending. He is not the person going forward to control federal spending. Term Limits. Bye, Bye Ben!" (twitter.com)
  • "Stop borrowing and printing money to pay for unaffordable programs." (voteficker.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Our campaign for Governor is the ONLY one to cut taxes on those hit hardest by inflation. Cut MD sales tax 2 cents or $780/yr./household." (twitter.com)
  • "Expand Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant and make America energy independent again by expanding drilling for oil and gas. Focus on reading, writing, and arithmetic in schools instead of social ideologies. Keep violent criminals in jail, not on the streets. Stop borrowing and printing money to pay for unaffordable programs. Pass term limits on politicians. Bring jobs and new business to Maryland instead of letting them go to Virginia, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. Close the border. Stop the fentanyl." (voteficker.com)
  • "Marylanders are already burdened enough with high taxes and Joe Biden’s inflation. I am OPPOSED to any new taxes on Marylanders and I urge you to call your representatives and tell them to vote NO. #NoTaxIncrease #VoteNo" (twitter.com)
  • "Well here’s what will actually happen if the Democrats win this election: - Worsening of the border crisis - More fentanyl in our streets - More [unpunished] crime in our neighborhoods - Higher inflation and cost of living - Higher taxes and more wasteful spending" (twitter.com)
  • "Appeals court temporarily halts Biden's student loan forgiveness plan We cannot afford this inflationary, unfair giveaway!" (washex.am)
  • "I paid off my own college loan. Why should Biden-Spend-Moore make me pay off somebody else’s student loan?" (twitter.com)
  • "Student loan forgiveness is giving university presidents the power to issue US Treasury debt." (twitter.com)
  • "Wes Moore Spending favors making me, who already paid off his student loan, pay off the loans of others. Can he make those getting student loans forgiven pay off my home equity loan in return?" (twitter.com)
  • "Why do the Montgomery County elected officials who support Vaccination Passports oppose Voter ID?" (twitter.com)
  • "Montgomery County realizes $200 million/year from a should-have-been sunsetted energy tax. Why isn’t this money used to build solar and wind farms?" (twitter.com)
  • "Double Calvert Cliffs Nuclear plant to serve another Million Maryland homes with clean energy!" (twitter.com)
  • "Expand Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant and make America energy independent again by expanding drilling for oil and gas. Focus on reading, writing, and arithmetic in schools instead of social ideologies. Keep violent criminals in jail, not on the streets. Stop borrowing and printing money to pay for unaffordable programs. Pass term limits on politicians. Bring jobs and new business to Maryland instead of letting them go to Virginia, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. Close the border. Stop the fentanyl." (voteficker.com)
  • "Why isn’t the Maryland legislature trying to double the electrical output of Calvert Cliffs Nuclear plant to 2 million homes?" (twitter.com)
  • "As McCain said, Russia is like a gas station masquerading as a country. 1/2 their income is from oil and gas. Increase US production to drive down US gas prices and Putin’s income." (twitter.com)
  • "Ban the import of oil from the country of Putin(Stalin II). Cut his funding and increase US production to drive down prices and inflation." (twitter.com)
  • "Expand Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant and make America energy independent again by expanding drilling for oil and gas. Focus on reading, writing, and arithmetic in schools instead of social ideologies. Keep violent criminals in jail, not on the streets. Stop borrowing and printing money to pay for unaffordable programs. Pass term limits on politicians. Bring jobs and new business to Maryland instead of letting them go to Virginia, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. Close the border. Stop the fentanyl." (voteficker.com)
  • "House to vote on bill offsetting Biden's SPR drawdown with more oil and gas production | Fox Business we need this bill to offset Ben Cardin’s end of US energy self sufficiency policy. Term Limits. Bye, Bye Ben!" (foxbusiness.com)
  • "This is an incredibly disturbing affront to our liberty and a clear reason we must elect President Trump and Senators who will protect our 2nd Amendment. As your Senator, I will not allow radical Democrats to take our freedoms." (twitter.com)
  • Rated 92% by National Rifle Association (NRA) (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • "Stop borrowing and printing money to pay for unaffordable programs." (voteficker.com)
  • "The high cost of living, above-average health care costs, exorbitant taxes and soaring home prices are all pushing Marylanders to look elsewhere for jobs and an affordable retirement." (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.
  • "4 more years of Trone and Biden will result in 15-20 million more illegal immigrants crossing the southern fentanyl border!" (twitter.com)
  • "Allowing 6,000,000 illegal immigrants to cross the Southern Border since Joe Biden took office, including some smuggling fentanyl with them? Especially when the leading cause of death for adults under 45 in this country is drug overdoses? That makes absolutely no sense." (voteficker.com)
  • "Expand Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant and make America energy independent again by expanding drilling for oil and gas. Focus on reading, writing, and arithmetic in schools instead of social ideologies. Keep violent criminals in jail, not on the streets. Stop borrowing and printing money to pay for unaffordable programs. Pass term limits on politicians. Bring jobs and new business to Maryland instead of letting them go to Virginia, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. Close the border. Stop the fentanyl." (voteficker.com)
  • "This is what’s coming to your doorstep if we don’t close the border and #BuildTheWall." (twitter.com)
  • "Allowing 6,000,000 illegal immigrants to cross the Southern Border since Joe Biden took office, including some smuggling fentanyl with them? Especially when the leading cause of death for adults under 45 in this country is drug overdoses? That makes absolutely no sense." (voteficker.com)
  • "Expand Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant and make America energy independent again by expanding drilling for oil and gas. Focus on reading, writing, and arithmetic in schools instead of social ideologies. Keep violent criminals in jail, not on the streets. Stop borrowing and printing money to pay for unaffordable programs. Pass term limits on politicians. Bring jobs and new business to Maryland instead of letting them go to Virginia, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. Close the border. Stop the fentanyl." (voteficker.com)
  • "We have a President who puts the feelings of violent illegal immigrants before the lives of their victims. The security of our country is at stake in this election. It is critical that we elect leaders like President Trump and myself to close our border and protect American lives." (twitter.com)
  • "UNBELIEVABLE! This twice-deported, criminal illegal immigrant was allowed to be here thanks to "sanctuary" policies implemented in Montgomery county under Larry Hogan’s watch! Marylanders cannot trust Larry Hogan to keep our kids safe!" (twitter.com)
  • "Give Russia’s money to Ukraine" (twitter.com)
  • "Putin is Stalin II. No regard for human life. Must be countered. Make US Energy Independent ASAP, undercut 50% of Russia’s revenue." (twitter.com)
  • "US announces $345 million military aid package for Taiwan Good idea!" (apnews.com)
  • "Why isn’t the US putting economic sanctions on Putin now?" (twitter.com)
  • "As the only Republican candidate for Maryland Governor who has an Honorable Discharge from the US Armed Forces I know that War is Hell and that his War in Ukraine, which is not a democracy by the way, will have a deleterious effect on Maryland." (twitter.com)
  • "Biden needs to force a Ukraine settlement." (twitter.com)
  • "HIGH Gas prices too. Inflation too. That is what Ukraine is giving us." (twitter.com)
  • "I see NO reason why Ukraine should be a member of NATO!" (twitter.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.

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