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David Wallace's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

On The Ballot: Running, Republican for U.S. House (MD) - District 2

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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.

  • "Here is a great website regarding the atrocity known as abortion! It kills more Americans than all Disease and illness." (x.com)
  • "Ill take my chances with Pro-Life Republicans, as opposed to Pro-Federal Abortion Funding Democrats!" (x.com)
  • "Liberal Or Conservative must be heard! #sanctity of Life and supporting Adoption!! 4 more years erupts! Democrat Politicians support of Abortion up to and just after the Moment of Birth! Every child is made in the image of God! Made & Born to fulfill his destiny!" (x.com)
  • "National Right To Life March! Who’s Heading to Washington to participate in National Right to Life March! It’s time to fight for Innocent Life. End All Government #Abortion Funding! Maryland doesn’t Count number of Abortions." (x.com)
  • "Let’s stop spending the #SocialSecurity #TRUST Fund. Let’s stop Spending Money we don’t Have. Let’s Bring Sanity to the #Budget Process. Let’s Debate, Write, and Pass and then Adhere to an #HonestBudgetAct! #HBA, Under Penalty of Law!" (x.com)
  • "What scapegoating malarkey! Obama transferred according to Congressional Budget Office $716 Billion from Medicare to Fund Obamacare. The worst part was $56Billion removed from Hospitals primarily serving the disadvantaged poor communities. These transfers hasten insolvency." (x.com)
  • "As the poll reveals, taxes are too high! Let’s see them lowered! Cut income taxes." (x.com)
  • "CUT TAXES AND REGULATIONS-Dave Wallace will fight taxes and regulations to create jobs and boost the economy. He will also fight inflation and work for fair trade deals that put American workers and the U.S. economy first." (davewallace.us)
  • "It’s time to cut spending Balance Budget in 4 years! Then begin paying down our Debt! It’s time to re-industrialize! To do that we Cut Income taxes! Raise tariffs to eliminate. Wage-Cost Disparity! The disparity has given our Competitors esp. Adversaries to destroy US Economy!" (x.com)
  • "Let’s begin long trek back to Wage Tariff Parity. Let’s commit to reducing Income taxes for every dollar of tariff revenue, where tariffs are only to be applied to grossly lower wage markets. We must stop subsidizing socialist failing economies." (x.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "@NextReVFNC @BoeingWA Campaign donations HAVE BECOME A SYSTEMIC THREAT TO ITS SOLVENCY, jeopardizing the Flighing public. We wonder why Tariffs are So maligned by Washington K Street. It’s all about the Lobby Money. Yet a Wage Disparity Tariff on would even the playing field." (x.com)
  • "Maine and other Democratic State Parties laundered shy of a $90 Million in huge campaign donations to circumvent campaign finance law it is alleged. @DanBackerEsq uncovered this elaborate scheme. Dan is a National Treasure!" (x.com)
  • "The so called #Republican_Accountability_Project is run by hard left Republicans & funded by so-called dark money of the #SixteenThirtyFund. .gop is their dot name, any one can pay to get that suffix at $150/yr. The GOP HAS TO DENOUNCE THIS GROUP, else GOP ITSELF IS FINISHED." (x.com)
  • "Time for Americans of character to all rise up with one voice! You will not use "projection" to prevent us from talking about Election Fraud. The Republican Accountability Project is the greatest Fraud perpetrated against America. Funded by 16-Thirty Project dark money Leftists!" (x.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.
  • "Federal Stimulus is driving people from filling jobs, while many jobs go unfilled. Lost productivity is creating shortages. Price hikes. Massive inflation. Debt approaching 32 trillion or more at the end of this Fiscal year, interest rates ramping up! Debt service will explode!🧨" (x.com)
  • "It’s so sad, Obama didn’t once have 3.0% GDP Growth Rate, even with the huge stimulus created by the Federal reserves Quantitative Easing and near zero% interest rates. I just guess that’s what happens when stifling Regulations and tax rate increases are imposed on Americans." (x.com)
  • "The Federal Debt is at 32.5Trillion and rising. Expected to be at 33Trillion by the end of the fiscal year. This year’s spending is already at 6.219Trillion and growing daily. The fiscal year closes 11:59pm on September 30th. Estimated current revenue is 4.701trillion. As of now we are at a 1.5Trillion dollar deficit. With one quarter in the fiscal year remaining, and federal spending accelerating we can expect to top 2 trillion dollars in deficits! Washington has a spending problem not a revenue problem. Further the DEBT TO GDP RATIO has increased TO 23.48%. This is in the face of US FEDERAL Revenue TO GDP RATIO AT 17.49%. That’s a marginal 6% shortfall that must be addressed." (x.com)
  • "You want an economic stimulus? Fight the #CoInfection with immediate and simultaneous Doxycycline! Cephalosporins, Mycoplasmal infection is a real nasty disease." (x.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Restore Americans Buying Power! My mission in Congress will be to assure we have a solid currency, and we end inflation. Inflation is destroying our buying power, as costs of groceries and all energy and housing is astronomical now. Only Productivity where supply meets demand and inventory is flush will we curb inflation. This takes energy to drive our Economic ReIndustrialization. American energy must be unleashed." (x.com)
  • "The Cure for Inflation-GOLD! More precisely The Gold Standard Act! I am the candidate who will Introduce and be the lead sponsor of the Gold Standard Act. From the moment of the Nixon Shock — the moment America went off the Gold Standard— in 1971, The American Dollar Lost 85% in the 10 years hence. That is, from 1971-1981 you and I lost 85% of our buying power! We need to bring sanity to our American Monetary Policy. So I propose and will be the chief Sponsor of the original Gold Standard Act of 1984. Originally introduced by Jack Kemp, and co-sponsored by Congressmen Vin Weber, Connie Mack and House Speaker Newt Gingrich." (davewallace.us)
  • "To further cure inflation I will do more. I will fight to end our fiscal budget deficits! We must balance our budget and pay down our debt that will accumulate to nearly 34 trillion dollars by year’s end. When we do these things, We get Americans Back to work! " (twitter.com)
  • "With one stroke of the pen, we will handcuff the Entire Federal Reserve. We will save the US Economy! We will prevent the further erosion of the US Dollar. Our economy’s furnace will be regulated by the Gold Standard Thermostat. We will arrest the devaluation of the dollar using the precious metal, Gold! Gold has withstood multiple millennia! Yet no one realized the axiom "If ain’t Broke, don’t fix it!" And in attempting to cure the ills of failed fiscal policy of the Lyndon B. Johnson presidency, namely the Fiscal imprudence of the Great Society, that imposed Socialism 1.0, the key adviser to Nixon, the egotistical, John Connolly set about the novice Nixon on "Fixing" the Monetary System by untethering the dollar." (davewallace.us)
  • "Harvard is to Education as New York Times is to Free Press. Harvard loves #Socialism #Keynesian Economics,End to Meritocracy, #OpenBorders & Chinese Trade without #WageDisparityTariffs , #TransgenderTransition. It receives Federal Aid, & massive research grants & Student Loans." (x.com)
  • "Democrats refuse to disclose number of absentee ballots that are received & need to be counted. Secretaries of State must held to account. Federal Regs must be written to govern the rules of absentee ballots & early voting, as well as Voter ID’s to establish legitimate elections." (x.com)
  • "Democrats refuse to disclose number of absentee ballots that are received and need to be accounted. Federal guidelines must be written to govern the rules of absentee ballots and early voting, as well as Voter ID’s to establish legitimate elections." (x.com)
  • "FIGHT to end crazy Climate Change policy!" (davewallace.us)
  • "FIGHT to restore energy independence!" (davewallace.us)
  • "Renewable Energy Requirements distort Energy Costs Higher yet are hidden from view. Create greater burden on those who can least afford it. It’s time for us to untether American Energy — Oil, Natural Gas, Coal — vital in saving the working families struggling to get by." (x.com)
  • "#EU has as its primary agenda to elevate #ClimateChange to paramount importancek elevating futile "renewable Energy" and killing the energy that preserves our way of life Fossil fuels. Yet the EU elite will cut down trees to heat homes! And even subsidize it! €6000/Y" (x.com)
  • "FIGHT to restore energy independence!" (davewallace.us)
  • "I support Chip 100% on this issue! We need to open up our Drilling & pipelines as well as refining and Liquefaction production." (x.com)
  • "Oil production: Regardless the Leases. Permits are required. Without permits no drilling can take place. Biden has greatly shrunk the number of leases approved, it’s not that the permit applications aren’t being filed, Biden’s just not approving them" (x.com)
  • "Open up drilling." (x.com)
  • "Actor not Object. Let’s focus on Criminals not the gun. Law abiding defend their lives & those lives of innocent bystanders. Stoping crimes. Moreover, crime is reduced when cowards know a gun may be in possession of the righteous." (x.com)
  • "Criminals don’t need laws loosened to own guns to commit crimes! They flout the law. What makes anyone think the criminals have to wait to purchase a gun legally? That’s a ludicrous argument. Yet wherever Guns are available to law abiding people Crime Goes down." (x.com)
  • "It would require a database of all transactions for 10 years. Of the owner and address. It sounds reasonable, until you realize the CCP IS ITS BIGGEST PROPONENT,& it’s been the first step of the means in gun confiscation, of every totalitarian despots. Hitler, Stalin, Many others" (x.com)
  • "When Guns were in High School Boys pickup trucks, we seldom if ever heard of Mass gun violence on school campuses. (& sometimes girls)" (x.com)
  • "Sad, sad Democrats. Pitiful but for the fact they are hateful . Doing all they can to destroy insurance. Obamacare created health insurance plans that have catastrophically expensive premiums and deductibles." (x.com)
  • "What scapegoating malarkey! Obama transferred according to Congressional Budget Office $716 Billion from Medicare to Fund Obamacare. The worst part was $56Billion removed from Hospitals primarily serving the disadvantaged poor communities. These transfers hasten insolvency." (x.com)
  • "An alternative to Empower Free Market build of Family Leave program:Create a tax deductible - Family Leave Parent-Employer Savings Account System FLPE-SAS Tax Deductible for Parent & Employer Contributions; allowFamily withdraws at 45. 401K can be expanded to include this model." (x.com)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • "Border Security is National Security! Wallace for America" (x.com)
  • "Cooperation on Immigration has been destroyed by Biden Administration disastrous open border policy. A policy Border security must be the single goal. End All Welfare baiting." (x.com)
  • "If elected I will fight for border security with every fiber of my being. We cannot allow our borders to be sieve to illegal unvetted aliens. It’s time to protect our families!" (x.com)
  • "When will the Leadership of the Republican Party gain something Testicular Fortitude, and stand up for Border Security & Protection of our Citizenship Rights, while protecting the values of our Country based upon our Philosophy as our Founding Fathers intended. Don’t dilute it!" (x.com)
  • "A George W. Bush appointed Judge orders reopening of DACA, after 90-day delay. Our country has huge problems with illegal Aliens and border security precisely because of the mindset of people who hold views like this Judge. #BuildTheWall #sovereignty" (x.com)
  • "BETTER LATE THAN NEVER! FEDERAL JUDGE HANDS TRUMP A LONG OVERDUE WIN! DACA IS ILLEGAL, no more DACA PARTICIPANTS, yet those already in DACA, are not being kicked out." (x.com)
  • "Could this be true? It’s ugly if so! Mayra Flores is for amnesty of illegal intruders!" (x.com)
  • "End DACA. End Illegal Work Visas, & Illegal Alien Welfare Magnet, expand 287g to STATE POLICE AUTHORITIES, & all municipal-County LAW Enforcement, Require E-Verify on all Federally funded Projects, & all Federal Funding to State be predicated on participation by Lawful workers" (x.com)
  • "As your Maryland Congressman, I promise to fight to restore sanctions on Iran and Hezbollah, as well as The Houthis and FARC. We must assure the peace in the United States. Restore our Western Hemisphere to The Democratic values especially the Liberty of all people." (x.com)
  • "I am of the opinion that China must be isolated. Policies must be created to block China. Block Further immigration. Apply strong sanctions against the CCP. They are a menace to US existence. Our sovereignty requires we place sanctions INCLUDING punitive tariffs & more!" (x.com)
  • "Sanctions against terrorist regime have all but evaporated! Yet Iran is now on the verge of a nuclear bomb that could destroy Israel and if secreted into the Western Hemisphere threaten the United States. Aggressive sanctions are required to be maintained to prevent Iran from it!" (x.com)
  • "Sanctions must be levied against @CreditSuisse- swift & heavy! Reckless false statements jeopardize Bank confidence! Trust, Confidence, transparency must be the hallmark of our banking system, #BankSupervision is essential! Supervision failure must be punished!" (x.com)
  • "American & international Energy Policy along with bolstered aid to UKRAINE will be the massive deterrent to all international aggression, including Russia, while it will when applied effectively in a clear purposeful manner, deter current Chinese dominance & future aggression." (x.com)
  • "May God Give our Leaders the ability to see the path to aid Ukraine against #Russian Aggression! Putin is evil. He’s sent in his Wagner Goons to blow up Lugansk to assure pretext for war. Arms, #NORDSTREAM2, Cyber, financial sanctions. Maximum Pressure!" (x.com)
  • "We must unite, create an emergency bill passed & signed into law, to assure all necessary aid, superior military as well as humanitarian assistance is provided to Ukraine with preparation for that equipment to be ready to be shipped in upon passage. #SaveUkraine" (x.com)
  • "Bastards at TicToc need to go! Yes You!" (x.com)
  • "Our Republic is ruled based on immutable Constitutionl Law. Being ruled by Popular Opinion degrades to nothing more than Mob Rule. As a private business, owners have a choice as to what they do. Yet, as a social media platform with protections from lawsuit must follow FREE speech" (x.com)
  • "TIkTok needs to be banned from USA. It’s a surveillance. Tool of CCP-CHINA!" (x.com)
  • "Thanks Social media freedom we all enjoy! The collective wealth of knowledge is greater than the elite few who want to run our lives! #FREEDOM #FreeSpeech #TwitterFiles reveal the lies! Twitter Files reveal The #GovernmentInterference! Twitter Files reveal the Blatant Corruption!" (x.com)

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