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Missouri Congressional Election 2012 Political Courage Test
| Pro-choice | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| I pray no woman had to ever abort a child. To prevent abortions we need to help the women after the child is born. We abandoned her as soon as she gives birth leaving her with no means to support the child. A woman can't get pregnant without a man. We need stiffer punishment for the men who impregnates a woman and abandons the child. We should have mandatory reversible vasectomies be given to every man the first time he impregnates a woman with a child and then abandons the child and women. Both are responsible for the unborn child. | |||
| No | Do you support United States' combat operations in Afghanistan? | ||
| No | Do you support a timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan? | ||
| I support our troops 100 plus percent they have given life and limbs and more to help the people of Afghanistan. Its time for all of them to come home now. We have given enough of our money to the Afghanistan people we can not take care of them forever. We can not spend our tax payers dollars to build their infrastructure and economy. We need the money to invest in the American people and in our Country's needs. I do not believe in time tables in war. It gives too much information to our enemies to use against us. | |||
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? | ||
| Yes | do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? | ||
| No | do you support reducing Medicaid spending? | ||
| No | do you support reducing Medicare spending? | ||
| Yes | Is balancing the budget a legislative priority? | ||
| The DOD needs to stop the wasteful spending. The DOD needs to track every penny and pass an audit. We need to reform contract bidding. I want to reform the entire taxation laws. It should be no more then 2 pages long with only three tax brackets. Approximately 46% of Americans do not pay income taxes. Everyone needs to contribute even if its a dollar or fifty cents. We wont need Medicaid or Medicare if we all enter into the Federal Employees Health Benefits Insurance plans. You will have the same heath insurance that your U.S. Senator and Representative have. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| Unions should not be allowed to use the union dues payed by the members to contribute to any campaign period. The members are made up of all political parties (Independents, Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, Green, Constitutional and or no party affiliation at all). The dues should go to improve the members work place, wages and benefits not to campaigns. Corporations are not people. The American citizen can not contribute in the amounts that a corporation can. Corporations campaign contributions buys them a seat at the table when our laws and regulations are being written behind closed doors. Corporate money equals power. | |||
| Yes | Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes? | ||
| Limited and only for certain heinous crimes. | |||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| No | Do you support the 2010 temporary extension of tax relief? | ||
| 1. Federal spending for economic growth should be targeted and limited. 2. Small businesses and Manufacturing companies (that return to the U.S.) are the only ones that should get tax incentives. Not large corporations or banks. 3. Most Americans are not qualified to do construction work. The Electric and Gas companies (Ameren UE and Laclede Gas) the Water and Sewer companies should pay to rebuild the infrastructure. The American people pay enough money every month for them to provide and maintain these areas of our infrastructure. The federal government should help the States maintain the roads and bridges. | |||
| No | Do you support requiring states to implement education reforms in order to be eligible for competitive federal grants? | ||
| Education is a very complex area to legislate. Education should be decided by each State. Every State is different and the needs of children will be different. I believe that the Federal government should help fund education, but not mandate how each State and City teaches their children. | |||
| Yes | Do you believe that human activity is contributing to climate change? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| I do believe the current EPA has gone to far with the regulations they are mandating. Example mandating we can only buy compact fluorescent lamps with toxic mercury that his very dangerous to humans and our environment makes no since to me. When one breaks you have to call a company specializing in environmentally sound cleanups of the mercury inside the bulb. The cost of the clean up is estimated at $2,000. We need to regulate using common sense! We dont need to regulate to the point we lose our manufacturing base and jobs etc... | |||
| No | Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns? | ||
| I support the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." I support adding a gun safety course to be taught in all public and private schools. Children should be taught the proper use of a gun and gun safety. Rural children are taught at an early age to respect guns and their proper use. Rural accidental shootings by children are very rare. | |||
| 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? | ||
| All citizens will enter into the Federal Employees Health Benefits Insurance plans. You will have the same Health Insurance that your U.S. Senator and Representative have. No one will be denied insurance for a pre-existing medical diagnosis. Insurance companies can't refuse to pay for services that your Doctor deems necessary. There will be no comparative effectiveness research and value-based purchasing. (No government-picked committee will decide what you get, i.e. tests, medications, surgery, treatment etc.). We need Tort reform | |||
| Yes | Do you support requiring illegal immigrants to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? | ||
| No | 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? | ||
| Please visit my website at www.candicebritton.com to learn more about my immigration thoughts. If the Federal government will not enforce our immigration laws then the States in my opinion have a right to protect their citizens. The illegal aliens coming to our country are breaking many laws with the blessings of our Federal Government. Our prisons are full of American women spending years in prison for breaking laws. Such as writing bad checks or stealing to feed and support their children. Illegals aliens are treated better then Americans who break laws of a lesser crime. Thats unjust to Americans. | |||
| Yes | Do you support same-sex marriage? | ||
| In my opinion the Federal Government has no constitutional right or mandate to govern marriage at all. Be it between a man and a women or marriage of the same sex. As your U.S. Representative I have no right to tell any of you who you can love or who you shouldn't love and marry. The government has no business in this very sacred and personal event in your life. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Only as a last resorts. If the "leaked" cyber attacks don't stop the Iranians nuclear weapons program then we must use everything in our tool box including our military to stop them. | |||
| Yes | Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts? | ||
| Before I would support this question I will need to read and study the actual legislation as written before I would vote on it. I also would hold town halls and ask my constituents how they wanted me to vote. The above statement goes for every question I have answered on this questionnaire. I would always ask my constituents how they wanted me to vote. I promised them that and I intend on keeping my promise to them. | |||
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.
| Greatly Decrease | a) Agriculture | ||
| Greatly Decrease | b) Arts | ||
| Slightly Increase | c) Defense | ||
| Maintain Status | d) Education | ||
| Slightly Decrease | e) Environment | ||
| Slightly Decrease | f) Homeland Security | ||
| Greatly Decrease | g) International aid | ||
| Greatly Increase | h) Medical Research | ||
| Greatly Increase | i) Scientific Research | ||
| Slightly Decrease | j) Space exploration | ||
| Eliminate | k) United Nations | ||
| Maintain Status | l) Welfare | ||
| m) Other or expanded categories | |||
| Slightly Decrease | a) Capital gains taxes | ||
| Slightly Increase | b) Corporate taxes | ||
| Greatly Increase | c) Excise taxes (alcohol) | ||
| Greatly Decrease | d) Excise taxes (cigarettes) | ||
| Greatly Decrease | e) Excise taxes (transportation fuel) | ||
| Slightly Increase | f) Income taxes (low-income families) | ||
| Slightly Increase | g) Income taxes (middle-income families) | ||
| Slightly Increase | h) Income taxes (high-income families) | ||
| Eliminate | i) Inheritance taxes | ||
| Slightly Increase | j) Payroll taxes | ||
| Greatly Decrease | k) Other or expanded categories | ||
| I would give huge tax breaks to Manufacturing Companies that returned back to the U.S. and hired Americans to work in the manufacturing plant. I will work very hard to get them to set up in Congressional District 01 Missouri. | |||
| We must bring back our manufacturing base! No country can possibly survive without making its own goods. We are held captive, with our hands tied behind our backs, to depending upon foreign countries (ie. China who is predicted to be the super power by the year 2016... not the United States) for our livelihood. These foreign countries don't have the people's best interests at heart. All citizens will enter into the Federal Employees Health Benefits Insurance plans. You will have the same heath insurance that your U.S. Senator and Representative have. |
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