Steve Tataii's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Issue Positions
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- Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? "Pro-Life" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
- "My position to be pro-life became stronger when I discovered the most incredible things from the few small parrot birds living with me over the past 9 years. Their eggs should be removed before the fifth day otherwise a tiny little beating red dot indicating life can be seen on one side of the egg visible using a flashlight. That's when I did not replace it, which developed to a newborn at its 23rd day. This was an incredible wonderful discovery of God's creation. I was more careful in checking their eggs, and removing them before the fifth day." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
- In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? "No" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? "Yes" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
- "We need to add an amendment to our 1st amendment of our constitution, making it the law of our country to have our media particularly main local TV stations to foot our candidates' debates for those candidates wanting to debate within a month prior to the elections, and disallow all campaign advertising, and in addition to televised debates; our major newspapers publish candidates' profile starting a month prior to the elections. The said members of the media should then receive an allocated federal benefit for their services described above. That's all folks." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
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- Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? "Yes" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
- Do you support providing tax incentives to businesses for the purpose of job creation? "Yes" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Do you support requiring states to implement education reforms in order to be eligible for competitive federal grants? "Yes" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
- Do you support funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)? "Yes" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
- Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? "Yes" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
- Do you generally support gun-control legislation? "No" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
- "Guns don't kill people, people kill people, so no matter how strict or stricter our gun control becomes; those looking for guns can one way or another find guns in black markets." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
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- Do you support requiring illegal immigrants to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? "No" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
- "Only if they have committed crimes, which have interfered with normal lives of our US citizens. The investigations into those crimes must be conducted by a non-bias honorable detective or federal agent, and all aspects of the potentials for it to happen again must be taken under consideration." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
- Should the U.S use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the United States from possessing a nuclear weapon? "Yes" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
- "United States must create a lean & mean sets of action steps to inform those rogue states prior to proceeding with such weapons; that if they take their step 2 or go to step 3 (whatever that is if they have not yet produced it), that they will face certain retaliations without warnings, which will not be negotiable." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
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.
| Pro-life | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| My position to be pro-life became stronger when I discovered the most incredible things from the few small parrot birds living with me over the past 9 years. Their eggs should be removed before the fifth day otherwise a tiny little beating red dot indicating life can be seen on one side of the egg visible using a flashlight. That's when I did not replace it, which developed to a newborn at its 23rd day. This was an incredible wonderful discovery of God's creation. I was more careful in checking their eggs, and removing them before the fifth day. | |||
| No | In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending? | ||
| No | In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| We need to add an amendment to our 1st amendment of our constitution, making it the law of our country to have our media particularly main local TV stations to foot our candidates' debates for those candidates wanting to debate within a month prior to the elections, and disallow all campaign advertising, and in addition to televised debates; our major newspapers publish candidates' profile starting a month prior to the elections. The said members of the media should then receive an allocated federal benefit for their services described above. That's all folks. | |||
| Yes | Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes? | ||
| Yes | Do you support alternatives to incarceration for certain non-violent offenders such as mandatory counseling or substance abuse treatment? | ||
| Yes | Do you support mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders? | ||
| Yes | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| Yes | Do you support lowering taxes as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| Yes | Do you support providing tax incentives to businesses for the purpose of job creation? | ||
| Yes | Do you support requiring states to implement education reforms in order to be eligible for competitive federal grants? | ||
| 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 generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| Guns don't kill people, people kill people, so no matter how strict or stricter our gun control becomes; those looking for guns can one way or another find guns in black markets. | |||
| No | Do you support requiring illegal immigrants to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? | ||
| Only if they have committed crimes, which have interfered with normal lives of our US citizens. The investigations into those crimes must be conducted by a non-bias honorable detective or federal agent, and all aspects of the potentials for it to happen again must be taken under consideration. | |||
| 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 governments hostile to the United States from possessing a nuclear weapon? | ||
| United States must create a lean & mean sets of action steps to inform those rogue states prior to proceeding with such weapons; that if they take their step 2 or go to step 3 (whatever that is if they have not yet produced it), that they will face certain retaliations without warnings, which will not be negotiable. | |||
| Yes | Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts? | ||
| Social Security Administration must increase its benefits to individuals, whose average income shows much lower than normal due to being denied employments in their areas of expertise, skills, and primarily due to discrimination based on their race, national origin, gender, age, marital status, and beliefs. Currently SSA only takes into account what an individual has earned based on the length of his work history, and drops down the benefit due to certain variations in wages, and decides to pay him/her a very low amount of retirement benefit not enough to survive on. | |||
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 Increase | a) Agriculture | ||
| Slightly Increase | b) Arts | ||
| Slightly Increase | c) Defense | ||
| Slightly Increase | d) Education | ||
| Slightly Increase | e) Environment | ||
| Slightly Increase | f) Homeland Security | ||
| Greatly Increase | g) International aid | ||
| Slightly Increase | h) Medical Research | ||
| Maintain Status | i) Scientific Research | ||
| Slightly Decrease | j) Space exploration | ||
| Slightly Increase | k) United Nations | ||
| Slightly Increase | l) Welfare | ||
| Maintain Status | a) Capital gains taxes | ||
| Slightly Increase | b) Corporate taxes | ||
| Slightly Decrease | c) Small business taxes | ||
| Slightly Increase | d) Excise taxes (alcohol) | ||
| Maintain Status | e) Excise taxes (cigarettes) | ||
| Greatly Decrease | f) Excise taxes (transportation fuel) | ||
| Greatly Decrease | g) Income taxes (low-income families) | ||
| Slightly Decrease | h) Income taxes (middle-income families) | ||
| Maintain Status | i) Income taxes (high-income families) | ||
| Eliminate | j) Inheritance taxes | ||
| Slightly Decrease | k) Payroll taxes | ||
| We need a new Department to educate Americans about human values, the concept of respect, the values of each unique people with their own language & culture, and a mechanism to fight & prosecute against aggressive demonstration of bigotry, racism, and hate crimes especially when it is institutionalized, and practiced by certain states in a hidden & malicious way, which goes on for years and decades without punishment. "Department of anti racist-hate-bigotry task force" with a budget level to be decided after the first year of operation. This is vital to most Americans. | |||
| The saved Taxes from the above decreases (ONLY) to pay for emergency assistance to victims of variety situations be it natural disasters, crimes, and malicious discrimination acts against law abiding citizens being poor, minorities, disabled, etc. "Emergency victim citizen taxes". | |||
| 1)- Counter terrorism strategies 2)- Identifying Terrorist states & helping their citizens to overhaul them quickly & permanently. 3)- Economic Reforms in Creating more Jobs, lowering unfair levels of interest rates on Loans. 4)- Elementary, Intermediate, and High School Educational Criteria Reform truncating useless courses of studies, and simplifying target areas into few "must know knowledge" courses. |
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