Larry Schuetter's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Presidential Election 2012 Political Courage Test
| Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | |||
| (Selected pro-choice and pro-life). Support the Sociall Security Credit Debit Card for all New Mothers and Health Support Systems to enable Professional services to those needing them. | |||
BudgetIndicate which proposals you support (if any) for balancing the federal budget.In order to balance the budget,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.
| Yes | do you support reducing defense spending? | ||
| Yes | do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? | ||
| Yes | do you support reducing Medicaid spending? | ||
| Yes | do you support reducing Medicare spending? | ||
| Yes | Is balancing the budget an administrative priority? | ||
| Greatly Increase | a) Agriculture | ||
| Greatly Decrease | b) Arts | ||
| Greatly Increase | c) Defense | ||
| Greatly Increase | d) Education | ||
| Eliminate | e) Environment | ||
| Eliminate | f) Homeland Security | ||
| Greatly Decrease | g) International aid | ||
| Slightly Decrease | h) Medical Research | ||
| Maintain Status | i) Scientific Research | ||
| Slightly Increase | j) Space exploration | ||
| Greatly Decrease | k) United Nations | ||
| Slightly Decrease | l) Welfare | ||
| Greatly Increase | m) Other or expanded categories | ||
| Greatly Increase | a) Capital gains taxes | ||
| Greatly Increase | b) Corporate taxes | ||
| Slightly Decrease | c) Excise taxes (alcohol) | ||
| Slightly Decrease | d) Excise taxes (cigarettes) | ||
| Slightly Decrease | e) Excise taxes (transportation fuel) | ||
| Eliminate | f) Income taxes (low-income families) | ||
| Greatly Decrease | g) Income taxes (middle-income families) | ||
| Maintain Status | h) Income taxes (high-income families) | ||
| Greatly Decrease | i) Inheritance taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | j) Payroll taxes | ||
| Imediate balancing of the budget by having Geithner, Bernanke to Loan to 310 Million Social Security Accounts $48,000 each, to pay off the 15 trillion debt borrowed by past congressional CBO offices. Impose New Legislation to Enforce Balance Budget to House and Senate and to with hold pay when deficit is in billions per day. Strict enforcement to insure Deficits are zero at time of change of office by President or Congress. | |||
| New Innovation Corporation Job USA Creation Conus USA Deductions Wall Street IIncentive Creation Deduction for USA Job creation. | |||
| Outsourcing Royalty to be Paid to US Treasury All Imports, From Free Trade Global Slave Trade 5% Tarriff. Visa, PassPort Fees to be used to pay down debt. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| FEC to Monitor All Corporate Candidates receiving funds above norms of state allowances, to evaluate the costs on Candidates Campaign Funding and those declaring themselves * Money Free Candidates. | |||
| Yes | Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes? | ||
| Non Compos Mentis on crimes of juveniles, mental illness, and seniors 75 plus. To save Tax Payer Corrections Monies. Prison Industrial Cities to be introduced to BRAC Bases Closed in States needing Accomodations of Prison Industrial Manufacturing for Catalysts to get Wall Street back to the Mainland, reducing shipping time, and sea Import fees, reducing price burdening on CONUS Job development. | |||
| Yes | Do you support federal spending 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 spending on infrastructure projects for the purpose of job creation? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the 2010 temporary extension of unemployment benefits? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the 2010 temporary extension of tax relief? | ||
| Progressive Innovation to Public Schools, high schools, to enable Governors of Each state to Seize Mortgage Bank defaults Collaborating to Save foreclosures by reselling them via 100 year mortgage at 2% annually, to get local economies vibrant in support of basic support services, Saving Public schools, Teachers Jobs, and creating new demands for new improvements to the local communities. | |||
| Yes | Do you support requiring states to implement education reforms in order to be eligible for competitive federal grants? | ||
| Require all Undocumented Attending Public Schools to be on a road to application to achieve green card status if alien to the State residing to be accountable to Immigration and naturalization if here, to achieve Progressive Registration to Normalcy in the communities to eliminate sanctuary City defaults to State Codes of enforcment and Improvements to Safety and Health to all Citizens in these states. | |||
| No | Do you believe that human activity is contributing to climate change? | ||
| No | Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| No | Do you support reducing restrictions on offshore energy production? | ||
| Natural Disasters Negating the Demands for EPA to set Moritoriums on Enforcement that appears inconsistent with the times. Use All natural resources abundance to get Jobs for all americans to ween off Unemployment and other support services for the unemployed. Promote Foreign Investment In America, and enable local communities to get Promotions from the Federal Government in Seeding New Industry. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Human Decency for all Populations on this Planet. Attacks on Innocent Cultures, and Populations not to be tolerated if UN Does not exercise its ability to prevent Genocide, or Other Mass anialations of any kind, and to achieve a liveable commerce with in war torn Countries. | |||
| No | Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns? | ||
| I support the rights of citizens to carry concealed weapons in Public, and those carrying in Public not to be harrassed. Promoted Prescription Ammo for categories of Enforcements in the community. Citizens to have safe Issue of Ammunitions. Professionals Prescribed state Ammo. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Promote Physical Health in the local communities by enabling city Mayors to apply for Federal Grants for Gains to Prevention in local community Gyms, Swimming Pools,, Stadiums, Skate Parks, new Innovation to Sports Development motivations to new Jobs and Creations in engineering. | |||
| 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? | ||
| In order to achieve Accountability all Undocumented to be registered and New Canal from CA, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas to create Maximum Commerce to end the Undocumented Invasion, and Internal Motivations to Accountable by Drive Thru INS, State, Local Post offices to register to change status from Undocumented or alien, to progressive green card to acceptance in category in line to previous enforcements of Immigration. | |||
| Yes | Do you support same-sex marriage? | ||
| Civil Unions to be explicitly Identified in all Support Services for Spouses as in Normal Marriages versus New Unions. Same Sex Marriages to be able to use IRS mandates to achieve deductions as normal citizens with out invasion to privacy. | |||
| Yes | Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts? | ||
| Introduce Reversed Retirement to the Social Security Debit Credit Card to achieve Maximum return for all recipients of the New Social Security Bank with in which all citizens will hold the dept as of now $48,000 allowing FED to pay off debt with out borrowing monies but citizens to carry debt forward with new IRS innovations to pay debt down by citizens not new borrowed monies. | |||
| 1. Revive the Economy, and implement the Superior Military dominance by achieving new creations in Space with our Allies and Adversaries. 2. Save the housing markets immediately by the 100 yr mortgage at 2%, to save and stabilize the economies. 3. Promote Congressional Enforcement to Term Limits and Breaks of Service to those running for office while in government service positions. 4. Promote CBO oversight to all future borrowing to Restrict the congress from borrowing and to provide innovations to new financial mechanisms to paying and keeping deficits and debts from happening. |
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