Andy Martin's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Issue Positions
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 2022.
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- "We should be slowly making up the deficits in trust funds and working over a longer period of time to move towards a fully-funded social security and medicare program." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
- "I am willing to listen, but the First Amendment stands in the way of regulating campaign spending." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
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- "I think President Trump has done a good job of fully funding defense spending. There can, of course, be adjustments and refinements within the overall defense budget." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
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- "We need bipartisan agreement on protecting the environment." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
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- "We must end illegal immigration, period." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
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This candidate has responded to a Political Courage Test in a previous election. As a continued effort to provide the American public with factual information on candidates running for public office, these archived responses are made available here.
| No | In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? | ||
| Yes | Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare? | ||
| We should be slowly making up the deficits in trust funds and working over a longer period of time to move towards a fully-funded social security and medicare program. | |||
| No | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| I am willing to listen, but the First Amendment stands in the way of regulating campaign spending. | |||
| No | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| I think President Trump has done a good job of fully funding defense spending. There can, of course, be adjustments and refinements within the overall defense budget. | |||
| Yes | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| No | Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| Yes | Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19? | ||
| We need to direct targeted aid to be sure the companies we ordered shut down have the assistance to reopen. If we ordered them to close, they deserve help to reopen. | |||
| No | Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| We need bipartisan agreement on protecting the environment. | |||
| Yes | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")? | ||
| No | Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border? | ||
| Yes | Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? | ||
| We must end illegal immigration, period. | |||
| No | Should the United States use military force to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a weapon of mass destruction (for example: nuclear, biological, chemical)? | ||
| Yes | Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts? | ||
| No | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| We need to gain control of the China virus crisis and jump start our economy. I will do whatever it takes to get our economy back where t was in February, 2020 before the China Virus arrived. Once back to the "old" normal," we can try to work with Democrats to close the legislative gaps. I am a conservative, but I am willing to sit down and talk. |
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