Cris Ericson's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Cris Ericson has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2022 Political Courage Test.
Vermont Congressional Election 2022 Political Courage Test
| Pro-choice | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| There is a problem of lack of informed consent because young women don't know what actually occurs in an abortion. Girls don't believe that a chemical abortion is like giving a mouse rat poison and waiting for it to die. Girls don't believe that when an embryo turns larger into a fetus that to suck it through a tube it has to be literally ripped apart, one limb at a time torn off then the head squashed, brains spilled out. Cris Ericson http://crisericson.com Cris Ericson 2022 candidate for U.S. Senator on the Nov. 8, 2022 general election ballot in VERMONT | |||
| Yes | Do you support expanding federal funding to support social safety net programs such as Social Security and Medicare? | ||
| CRIS ERICSON explains exactly how we will get more money for social programs and benefits without raising federal taxes by demanding a return on investment when our tax dollars are given out as subsidies. The corporations who receive taxpayer dollars as subsidies must give us a share of their profits. Right now we are suffering from modern day slavery giving away the fruits of our hard earned labor to corporations with no share of their profits in return. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t25hK1fTC8k Cris Ericson http://crisericson.com Cris Ericson 2022 candidate for U.S. Senator on the Nov. 8, 2022 general election ballot in VERMONT | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations,unions, and individuals? | ||
| Yes, I filed a complaint with the federal election commission, you can read it at https://ericson2016.wordpress.com I am deeply opposed to entities which receive any tax dollars and call themselves non-profits holding political candidate debates which only invite the Democrat and Republican candidate and exclude independents like me. A political candidate debate which excludes some of the candidates who are on the ballot is like an in-kind campaign contribution to the Democrat and Republican candidates who are invited and promoted by the debate or forum co-sponsored by a corporation or by a lobbying group on behalf of corporations and unions. | |||
| No | Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct? | ||
| If a police association or government condones certain police behaviour, and the officer acts in a way that is allowed by the police association or the government entity, then if there is a lawsuit because of that behaviour, such as an officer putting a knee on a suspects neck, then they all should be sued in court so the jury can come back with a verdict against all of them as co-conspirators to uphold wrongful rules, regulations and laws. The officer alone should not be sued in court, but all of them, the officer's supervisor, the officer's union, the partner. | |||
| Yes | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| Only if we get a share of the profits when our tax dollars go to the I.R.S. and then the U.S. Congress votes to give our tax dollars to the Pentagon and then the Pentagon hands out our tax dollars for research, design and development of new weapons, then the Patents, the ownership rights to the new inventions are turned over to defense contractors to sell the new weapons world wide for trilions of dollars in profits, then we, the taxpayers should get a share of the profits. We must stop modern day slavery and demand a share of profits! | |||
| No | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| No | Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19? | ||
| No | Do you support the federal government taking action, beyond those of the Federal Reserve, to alleviate inflation? | ||
| The government had no right under the U.S. Constitution to close down businesses and mandate masks and vaccines. | |||
| No | Do you support the forgiveness of federal student loan debt? | ||
| We need our share of profits when our tax dollars are given as subsidies to corporations so they can turn a profit, we should demand our share. We can use that money for free college education and free trade technical school education. We don't know how much of student loan money was used for non-tuition purposes, so we have no business forgiving those loans without full disclosure of what students actually spent that money on. If they used student loan money or grants to go on vacation in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, then forget it. | |||
| Yes | Do you support requiring a government-issued identification in order to vote at the polls? | ||
| How about a government issued identification to be a candidate on the ballot and a requirement that states don't allow someone on the ballot unless they are old enough to serve for that office? In the past, the State of Vermont allowed a 14 year old boy to run for Governor. That diluted the vote count. Right now, the State of Vermont is allowing Natasha Diamonstone-Kohout on the ballot for U.S. Senator and she is 23 years old. You have to be 30 to be a U.S. Senator. She and the state are in conspiracy to dilute the vote count. | |||
| No | Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)? | ||
| No | Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| Renewable energy uses batteries which cause pollution. | |||
| No | Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| No. I'll bet every home in Ukraine wishes they had stocked weapons for home protection. Criminals don't care about gun laws and will not be deterred. | |||
| Yes | Do you support a government-run (single-payer) healthcare program, such as Medicare-for-All? | ||
| Yes | Do you support expanding paid family AND/OR medical leave opportunities? | ||
| Yes | Do you support lowering the cost of prescription drugs? | ||
| We would have very low health care expenses if we stop modern day slavery and demand our share of the profits when tax dollars are taken out of our paychecks and go to the I.R.S. then the U.S. Congress votes to give our tax dollars to the N.I.H. and they use our tax dollars to invent new drugs and vaccines and then they give the Patent ownership rights to pharmaceutical corporations who sell the new products worldwide for billions and billions in profits, and we are currently denied our share of the profits which were made using our tax dollars. | |||
| Yes | Do you support increasing security along the southern US border? | ||
| Yes | Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? | ||
| President Joe Biden needs to be Impeached immediately for risking our lives by allowing illegal immigrants to enter our Country illegally and then turn themselves over to border security which, under the administration of President Joe Biden, allows them to get a court date and paperwork to allow them to work. They are rewarded for entering our country illegally. They are rewarded for risking their childrens lives while so many drown crossing the river to enter our coutnry illegally. Illegal immigrants are given benefits by NGOs while hundreds of thousands of real USA citizens and U.S. Miitary Veterans remain homeless. | |||
| No | Do you support economic intervention as a means of resolving international conflicts? | ||
| No | Do you support the U.S. providing increased offensive military aid to Ukraine? | ||
| The United States should stay out of foreign wars. We could provide transportation to people fleeing actual war zones where bombs are dropping. We need to identify ahead of time the areas of the world and countries which would accept people who are fleeing actual war conditions. We have hundreds of thousands of homeless people in the United States of America who need our help first. We have thousands of U.S. Military Veterans who need our help first. Hundreds of thousands of girls and women chose abortions because they can't afford a baby and they need our help first. | |||
| No | Do you support raising taxes, on any income or on any entity, to promote economic growth? | ||
| No! I want to end modern day slavery! We pay taxes to the I.R.S., then the U.S. Congress votes to give billions and billions of our tax dollars to corporations as subsidies. The corporations make huge profits using our hard earned tax dollars. Where is our share of the profits? The fruits of our labor are given to rich people, and that is modern day slavery. The rich get richer off of our backs, and that is modern day slavery! The U.S. Congress must stop giving away our tax dollars without a guarantee that we get a share of profits. | |||
| No | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| International trade only happens when ships and boats and planes and jets and trucks use gas or diesel fuel and raise global warming. We need to work to plan to have less international trade. | |||
| (1) I'm an independent so if I am elected, and one side or the other of the United States Senate needs one more member to become the Senate Majority, then I will offer to go over to their side if, and only if, they vote to make me U.S. Senate Majority Leader. (2) I want to sponsor a Bill to Amend the U.S. Constitution to make every seed bearing plant, like marijuana, cannabis, hemp, wheat in commerce, legal under federal, state, local and tribal laws for everyone to grow as many plants as they want for personal and farm use. |
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