Mark Roberts' Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Mark Roberts has refused to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2014 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests.
Issue Positions
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- Mark Roberts. Facebook: Timeline. 13 May 2012. "If the solution is largely community based, then what should be the government's role be in these programs? Greens believe that the government should facilitate these programs by enacting fair and progressive tax codes that do not grant special favors to wealthy and well-connected individuals and corporations." (www.facebook.com)
- "We also believe that tax codes should be structured to reward companies that reduce the social and environmental cost of their activities, and to reward individuals that adopt ecologically sound lifestyles." (votesmart.org)
- Mark Roberts. Facebook: Timeline. 18 June 2012. "A second method we can use to combat unemployment would be to recreate depression era programs like the CCC and the WPA. America has some twenty-five million workers who are either unemployed, underemployed, or who have been out of work for so long that they have given up seeking employment. America also has trillions of dollars of infrastructure decaying under our feet. The obvious solution would seem to be to hire those afflicted workers and employ them to maintain and repair our decaying infrastructure." (www.facebook.com)
- "The currently popular solution to this crisis, has been a program of austerity measures proposed by conservatives, for the purpose of deficit reduction and the repayment of debt. These programs, like those enacted in Greece, Spain, Ireland, elsewhere across Europe, historically have a very poor track record. As a whole, these programs have led to increased poverty, failed to reduce deficits, and failed to reduce debt." (votesmart.org)
- "Power and responsibility must be restored to local communities within an overall framework of ecologically sound and socially just lifestyles." (votesmart.org)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Mark Roberts. Issue Position: Ten Key Values. 1 January 2012. "We recognize that the Earth sustains all life processes. Green ecology understands the common roots of the abuse of nature, the abuse of animals, and the abuse of people. Whatever we do to the web of life, we do to ourselves [¦] We strive to create personal lifestyles based on sufficiency and living lightly [¦] Like the Iroquois, we seek a society in which the interests of the seventh generation yet to come are considered equal to the interests of the present generation. We must reclaim the future for ourselves and our children." (votesmart.org)
- "We also believe that tax codes should be structured to reward companies that reduce the social and environmental cost of their activities, and to reward individuals that adopt ecologically sound lifestyles." (votesmart.org)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Mark Roberts. Facebook: Timeline. 28 June 2012. "I am at once gladdened that the Supreme Court has upheld the Affordable Care Act and saddened that Americans will still not have universal health care. The Affordable Care Act is a step forward, but it is not Universal Health Care." (www.facebook.com)
- Mark Roberts. Facebook: Timeline. 8 July 2012. "Single-payer, not-for-profit health insurance, the most efficient health care delivery system ever devised. We could save billions, possibly even trillions in health care costs. The only losers would be the for-profit insurance companies. I can't think of a more deserving group to take the fall, can you? " (www.facebook.com)
- "Greens also believe that we should guarantee employment to all those willing to work, and that we should enact a single-payer health care system." (votesmart.org)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Mark Roberts. Issue Position: Ten Key Values: Social Justice. 1 January 2012. "We want to replace the worldwide system of poverty and injustice with a world free of all oppression based on class, sex, race, citizenship, age, or sexual orientation." (votesmart.org)
- "We honor the biological diversity of the Earth and the cultural, racial, sexual, and spiritual diversity of the Earth's people. We aim to reclaim this country's finest ideals: popular democracy, the dignity of the individual, and liberty and justice for all." (votesmart.org)
- Mark Roberts. Issue Position: Ten Key Values. 1 January 2012. "We reject violence as a way of settling disputes -- it is shortsighted, morally wrong, and ultimately self-defeating. We work to create a world in which war is obsolete." (votesmart.org)
- "Greens propose that an additional source of funding should come from ending our involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq, and reducing our overall military expenditures." (votesmart.org)
- "Former Employee, Social Security Administration" (votesmart.org)
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