| Full Name: | Jeffrey 'Scott' Scott Barea |
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| Gender: | N/A |
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| Family: | Spouse: Mick |
| Birth Date: | 04/09/1967 |
| Birth Place: | Manhattan, NY |
| Home City: | Denton, TX |
| Religion: | Very. |
Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
Jeffrey 'Scott' Scott Barea
Biographical
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What is the Political Courage Test?
Presidential Election 2012 Political Courage Test
Pro-life | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? |
| Other or expanded principles | |
I follow the historical model based on the "quickening" concept. Simplified - Independent heartbeat = human life. State's rights issue. I know, Mommy told you one world goverment would mean you could just whine to one goverment agency but here in the real world we know how to cross the Brooklyn Bridge safely. |
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Budget | |
Indicate which proposals you support (if any) for balancing the federal budget. | |
In order to balance the budget, | |
 | 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? |
| Is balancing the budget an administrative priority? |
| Other or expanded principles | |
Balanced Budget = Total Income from all sources - Total expenses and outlays = $0 left over. therefore? all options on the table including getting the national goverment out of state expense areas. Balance Your checkbook hippies! |
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Spending | |
Indicate 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. | |
| Eliminate | a) Agriculture |
| Eliminate | b) Arts |
| Greatly Increase | c) Defense |
| Greatly Decrease | d) Education |
| Greatly Decrease | e) Environment |
| Eliminate | f) Homeland Security |
| Eliminate | g) International aid |
| Greatly Increase | h) Medical Research |
| Greatly Increase | i) Scientific Research |
| Greatly Increase | j) Space exploration |
| Eliminate | k) United Nations |
| Eliminate | l) Welfare |
| Greatly Increase | m) Other or expanded categories |
Pot to smoke when you eat fried chicken and waffles |
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Taxes | |
Idicate 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. | |
| Eliminate | a) Capital gains taxes |
| Greatly Decrease | b) Corporate taxes |
| Eliminate | c) Excise taxes (alcohol) |
| Eliminate | d) Excise taxes (cigarettes) |
| Greatly Decrease | e) Excise taxes (transportation fuel) |
| Greatly Decrease | f) Income taxes (low-income families) |
| Greatly Decrease | g) Income taxes (middle-income families) |
| Greatly Decrease | h) Income taxes (high-income families) |
| Eliminate | i) Inheritance taxes |
| Eliminate | j) Payroll taxes |
| k) Other or expanded categories | |
National sales tax |
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| No | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? |
| Other or expanded principles | |
1,000,000 motivated individuals can kick the ass off 5,000 billionairs anyday. |
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| Yes | Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes? |
| Other or expanded principles | |
Serial/Unrehabitable: Murderers |
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| No | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? |
| No | 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 2010 temporary extension of unemployment benefits? |
| No | Do you support the 2010 temporary extension of tax relief? |
| Other or expanded principles | |
If the U.S. in October 2008 had written a check for $60,000 & $30,000 respectively to those who received the $600 & $300 Pres. Bush sent we'd be fat wealthy and lazier than ever. |
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| No | Do you support requiring states to implement education reforms in order to be eligible for competitive federal grants? |
| Other or expanded principles |
| Yes | Do you believe that human activity is contributing to climate change? |
| Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? |
| Yes | Do you support reducing restrictions on offshore energy production? |
| Other or expanded principles | |
[Q: Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?] [Response:] as in tomato plants and such? STUPID WORDING Q1 is idiotic. Obviously urban environments have climate conditions different than agrarian. Should we just kick out all the poor and burn them down? Yes! |
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| No | Do you support United States' combat operations in Afghanistan? |
| No | Do you support a timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan? |
| Yes | Do you support targeting suspected terrorists outside of official theaters of conflict? |
| Other or expanded principles | |
Q1 - Guarding lithium mines & poppy fields is not combat operations. |
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| No | Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns? |
| Other or expanded principles |
| 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? |
| Other or expanded principles | |
States should expand low income programs, but that's not up to the President. |
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| 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? |
| No | Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration law by state and local police? |
| Other or expanded principles | |
[Q: Do you support requiring illegal immigrants to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?] [Response:] So no immigrant rodeo for citizenship to give steers a rest? |
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| Yes | Do you support same-sex marriage? |
| Other or expanded principles | |
Marriage has 2 components. Contract law - all 2 person combos allowed. Endorsement by religious organizations should be left up to their respective organizations. |
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| No | Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts? |
| Other or expanded principles | |
I support the eventual phasing out of social security taxes. |
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| Please explain in a total of 100 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding. | |
1. Restoring the rule of constitutional law at the national level |
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