| Full Name: | Ed Cowan |
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| Gender: | Male |
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| Family: | Single |
| Birth Date: | 03/14/1938 |
| Birth Place: | Terre Haute, IN |
| Home City: | Waterbury, VT |
Ed Cowan
Ed Cowan's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Presidential Election 2012 Political Courage Test
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Pro-choice | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? |
| Other or expanded principles | |
ABORTION IS A PERSONAL MATTER |
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Budget | |
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? |
| No | Is balancing the budget an administrative priority? |
| Other or expanded principles | |
WE NEED TO GROWTH THE ECONOMY BY REDUCING INTEREST RATES OF BANKS AND OTHER EFFORTS |
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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. | |
| Maintain Status | a) Agriculture |
| Maintain Status | b) Arts |
| Greatly Decrease | c) Defense |
| Maintain Status | d) Education |
| Greatly Increase | e) Environment |
| Eliminate | f) Homeland Security |
| Slightly Decrease | g) International aid |
| Slightly Increase | h) Medical Research |
| Slightly Increase | i) Scientific Research |
| Maintain Status | j) Space exploration |
| Slightly Increase | k) United Nations |
| Slightly Decrease | l) Welfare |
 | m) Other or expanded categories |
Taxes | |
Indicate 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 Increase | a) Capital gains taxes |
| Slightly Increase | b) Corporate taxes |
| Maintain Status | c) Excise taxes (alcohol) |
| Slightly Increase | d) Excise taxes (cigarettes) |
| Slightly Increase | e) Excise taxes (transportation fuel) |
| Greatly Decrease | f) Income taxes (low-income families) |
| Maintain Status | g) Income taxes (middle-income families) |
| Greatly Increase | h) Income taxes (high-income families) |
| Slightly Increase | i) Inheritance taxes |
| Slightly Increase | j) Payroll taxes |
| k) Other or expanded categories |
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? |
| Other or expanded principles |
| Yes | Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes? |
| Other or expanded principles | |
I SUPPORT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ONLY AS AN ACT OF TREASON. FOR THE ABSOLUTE WORST CRIMES, I SUGGEST LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT PAROLE. |
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| Yes | 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? |
| Yes | 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 | |
I HAVE SEEN IN MY LIFETIME THE RICH BECOME BILLIONAIRES WHILE THE REST OF US FIND IT MORE DIFFICULT TO STAY IN THE MIDDLECLASS. CLASS WARFARE IS RAGING IN AMERICA, AND THE RICH JUST GET RICHER |
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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? |
| Yes | Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? |
| No | Do you support reducing restrictions on offshore energy production? |
| Other or expanded principles | |
I AM A STRONG SUPPORTER OF THE SOFT, RENEWABLE, SUSTAINABLE |
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| No | Do you support United States' combat operations in Afghanistan? |
| Yes | Do you support a timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan? |
| No | Do you support targeting suspected terrorists outside of official theaters of conflict? |
| Other or expanded principles | |
THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS, SUCH AS GOING AFTER BIN LADEN |
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| No | Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns? |
| Other or expanded principles | |
THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS. WE CERTAINLY SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO CARRY A CONCEALED WEAPON IN CITIES. REASONABLE GUN CONTROLS ARE NEEDED |
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| No | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act? |
| Should individuals be required to purchase health insurance, as mandated in the 2010 Affordable Care Act? |
| Other or expanded principles |
| No | 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? |
| Other or expanded principles | |
IT IS TIME TO SHUT AMERICAN DOORS TO ALL IMMIGRANTS. WE DON'T NEED IMMIGRATION; AMERICA IS FULL AND DOES NOT NEED MORE PEOPLE |
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| Yes | Do you support same-sex marriage? |
| Other or expanded principles |
| No | Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts? |
| Other or expanded principles |
| 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. | |
MY TOP THREE PRIORITIES ARE: 1) THE NUCLEAR-TIPPED ARMS RACE 2) EXCESSIVE POPULATION AND POPULATION GROWTH, 3) OUT OF CONTROL CAPITALISM. THE USA IS SPENDING MORE ON DEFENSE ($1.108 TRILLION DOLLARS) THAN ALL OTHER NATIONS COMBINED. BY CUTTING DEFENSE SPENDING OVER SIX YEARS, WE CAN SAVE TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS, AND WE CAN USE THOSE ENORMOUS SAVINGS TO HELP BUILD THE SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION. WE WANT A VIBRANT, FREE-ENTERPRISE ECONOMY THAT SERVES ALL AMERICANS, NOT JUST THE ELITE GREED-MONGERS |
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