Jesse Holland's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Nevada Congressional Election 2010 Political Courage Test
| Pro-life | a) Do you consider yourself pro-choice or pro-life? | ||
| No | b) Should abortion be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy? | ||
| No | c) Should abortion be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape? | ||
| No | d) Should abortion be legal when the life of the woman is endangered? | ||
| Yes | e) Should federal subsidies be prohibited from being used for abortion procedures? | ||
| As a common cure, abortion is not the answer. To destroy life as a fix to any social dilemma is not a viable alternative. To generically state that this concept is a choice between a person and their God would be an easy escape without giving you a direct answer. My answer is simple. I will not cast our approving vote for any bill that toys with the concept of abortion as an accepted cultural practice. | |||
1) SpendingIndicate what federal funding levels (#1-6) you support for the following general categories. Select one number per category- you can use a number more than once.2) 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.
| Slightly Decrease | a) Agriculture | ||
| Greatly Decrease | b) Arts | ||
| Maintain Status | c) Defense | ||
| Maintain Status | 1) Intelligence operations | ||
| Maintain Status | 2) Military hardware | ||
| Maintain Status | 3) National missile defense | ||
| Slightly Increase | 4) Salary and benefits for active duty personnel | ||
| Slightly Decrease | 5) Programs to improve troop retention rates | ||
| Maintain Status | 6) Research and development of new weapons | ||
| Maintain Status | d) Education | ||
| Greatly Decrease | e) Environment | ||
| Slightly Increase | f) Homeland security | ||
| Greatly Decrease | g) International aid | ||
| Slightly Decrease | h) Medical research | ||
| Maintain Status | i) Scientific research | ||
| Greatly Decrease | j) Space exploration | ||
| Eliminate | k) United Nations | ||
| Slightly Decrease | l) Welfare | ||
| Maintain Status | m) Other or expanded categories | ||
| Slightly Decrease | a) Alcohol taxes | ||
| Eliminate | b) Capital gains taxes | ||
| Greatly Decrease | c) Cigarette taxes | ||
| Slightly Decrease | d) Corporate taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | e) Gasoline taxes | ||
| Eliminate | f) Income taxes (low-income families) | ||
| Eliminate | g) Income taxes (middle-income families) | ||
| Eliminate | h) Income taxes (high-income families) | ||
| Greatly Increase | i) Other or expanded categories | ||
| Yes | 3) Do you support the elimination of the federal estate tax? | ||
| Yes | 4) Do you support requiring the federal budget to be balanced each year? | ||
| No | 5) Do you support using government funds in an effort to stimulate and improve the economy? | ||
| All Federally Funded programs ? Maintain some, decrease others. Did you realize that we are not only broke, but indebted beyond repayment? This debt is at the hands of our party political systems that we, the citizens, perpetuate. Did you know that our country is openly robbing forced programs such as Social Security, etc. without considering current and future recipients? I quote you the following from my website. Both major political parties have strayed from their traditional platforms. They now seem more interested in protecting the interests of the parties than the interests of the people. | |||
| I am committed to reversing the course we have taken regarding the tax code, and will vote FOR measures that REMOVE its most inequitable provisions, including unjust shelters, unfair exemptions and deductions that only benefit targeted special interests, and unmerited credits that allow refunds to those that pay no taxes. I will vote FOR measures that REDUCE the tax rate disparities built into our current escalating tax brackets. Repealing our current tax code and replacing it with such a flat tax would establish what would arguably be the simplest, fairest income tax system that is possible. | |||
| Why have we, as Americans, lost our desire to pursue happiness, life and liberty without government hand-outs? We should know better than to require the government to fix our lives and keep our tax dollars rolling to the empty pits of self centered projects. Taxes are necessary to fund soundness in the United States. However minimal equal burdens ought to be shared by all. Did you realize that we are not only broke, but indebted beyond repayment? This debt is at the hands of our party political systems that we, the citizens, perpetuate. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support privatizing elements of Social Security? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support reducing government regulations on the private sector? | ||
| No | c) Do you support increasing the federal minimum wage? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support the ability of workers to unionize? | ||
| No | e) Do you support federal funding for job-training programs that retrain displaced workers? | ||
| The Tenth Amendment provides that The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Thomas Jefferson described the Tenth Amendment as the foundation of the Constitution. The word Federal and National should be replaced by the word STATE, as guided by our Constitution. Although we could blatantly abuse its original intent, we should not permit congress to bamboozle our understanding to steal power from the States and create more legal holdings or grant unprecedented power to Congress that was never granted. | |||
| No | a) Do you support increasing the amount individuals are permitted to contribute to federal campaigns? | ||
| Yes | b) Should Congress regulate indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| No | c) Do you support removing all contribution limits on federal campaigns? | ||
| Yes | d) Should candidates for federal office be encouraged to meet voluntary spending limits? | ||
| No | e) Do you support giving the President the power of the line item veto for items concerning appropriations? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support limiting the President's ability to define how legislation is applied through the use of signing statements? | ||
| We have a government arranged by a Constitution and established as a Constitutional Republic. Let us return to the soundness this founding document and law offers, rather than allowing our checks and balances to be overridden by self centered elitists that harm our country and its citizens. We have remained a country of greatness by following a Constitution. Are they, our majority elected officials, now tossing it aside and making stuff up as they want? The better question would be; why are we allowing these servants, know as representatives, to disregard our foundational legal building block of law? | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support programs that provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related training and job-placement assistance when released? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support programs that provide prison inmates with substance abuse treatment? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support reduced prison sentences for non-violent offenders? | ||
| No | e) Do you support mandatory prison sentences for selling illegal drugs? | ||
| Congress has failed the people of this nation by passing laws that require an interpreter (an attorney, or teams thereof) in order for typical citizens to understand them. Perhaps the people have failed themselves by primarily electing lawyers to congress, thus promoting legal-speak as the standard legislative language. Laws are written to protect and reward law-abiding people, and to punish law-breakers. It would be a simple joy to read and understand the requirements we are held to for ourselves, rather than having to consult legal experts every time a legal issue or question confronts us. | |||
| No | a) Do you support federal education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students? | ||
| No | b) Do you support federal funding for universal pre-K programs? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support federal funding for charter schools? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support federal funding for K-12 school vouchers? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support the federal government providing college students with financial aid? | ||
| We must revamp our education system to enact standards that promote honest education. We must refurbish our school curriculum to equip our children with exceptional reading, writing, civics, arithmetic skills, dedicated work ethics and high moral standards. We must implement policies that empower parents to provide the best education to their child that is possible for the money that is available to them. There is no federal guidelines for education listed in the Constitution - please remember we have larger State rights than we utilize. Therefore, State standards and testing is applicable. | |||
| No | a) Do you support enacting environmental regulations aimed at reducing the effects of climate change? | ||
| No | b) Do you support international emissions targets aimed at reducing the effects of climate change? | ||
| No | c) Do you support allowing energy producers to trade carbon credits under a "cap and trade" system? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support strengthening fuel efficiency standards on all gasoline and diesel-powered engines, including cars, trucks, and sport utility vehicles? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support domestic oil exploration in federally-protected areas? | ||
| Yes | f) Do you support federal funding for the development of alternative energy? | ||
| Yes | g) Do you support the development of nuclear reactors? | ||
| Development of safe, creative and sound alternative energy sources should be encouraged. However, such encouragement should not come at an unreasonable added expense to each United States citizen. To mandate production from sources that cost a multitude more than the energy sources they replace is illogical. To pamper a budding renewable energy industry for a brief period could be acceptable when there is a realistic expectation that it will grow beyond the diaper stage into a feasible industry that is economically self-supporting within a reasonable time frame. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you believe that the Second Amendment guarantees the right of individual citizens to own guns? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support allowing individuals to carry concealed guns? | ||
| No | d) Do you support a ban on assault rifles? | ||
| Did you ever hear of criminals finally complying with the law and handing over their guns when bans have been enacted in any county? The right to keep and bear arms was granted by our founding fathers and is a vital part of our American heritage. The right to own arms is the cornerstone of all private property rights. A citizenry stripped of the right to own arms is powerless to defend itself against an authority infringing upon that citizenry's right to own and control private property. Gun ownership and associated rights to self-defense belong with all law-abiding citizens. | |||
| No | a) Do you support a publicly-administered health insurance option? | ||
| No | b) Do you support expanding access to health care through commercial health insurance reform? | ||
| Yes | c) Should the federal government expand eligibility for tax-free medical savings accounts? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support monetary limits on damages that can be collected in malpractice lawsuits? | ||
| Yes | e) Do you support relaxing regulations on the importation of prescription drugs? | ||
| Those powers not explicitly granted to the Federal government are reserved to the States and the people, as authorized in our Constitution. Although a Health Care Reform bill was magically passed using bribery and corruption and was signed into law, that law does not stand in alignment with the Constitution. The bill can not be financially supported nor can it be administered without collapsing the very country it was created within. There is no legal standing for our national government entity to force citizens to purchase a product, or pay fines and/or go to jail. | |||
| No | a) Do you support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants? | ||
| Yes | b) Do you support decreasing the number of legal immigrants allowed into the country? | ||
| Yes | c) Do you support establishing English as the official national language? | ||
| Yes | d) Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration laws by state and local police? | ||
| Although the words illegal immigration are tossed around like candy by your political friends, they are an oxymoron. Immigration implies legal residence. Illegal residents would be called illegal aliens. Federal laws explicitly express the requirements that must be met to legally inhabit and enjoy citizenship in this country. We must insist that our government aggressively and consistently enforces these laws. Otherwise, we will compromise our security and surrender our sovereignty. The truth is that we already have a fence in existence. It is called the law, which is our fence. We must stop rewarding illegal immigrants with taxpayer funded programs. | |||
| Yes | a) Do you support United States military action in Afghanistan? | ||
| No | b) Do you support increasing military assistance for Afghanistan? | ||
| No | c) Do you support increasing economic development assistance for Afghanistan? | ||
| Yes | d) Should the United States continue to strike suspected terrorist targets in Pakistan? | ||
| No | e) Do you support granting aid to countries when it is in the security interests of the United States? | ||
| No | f) Should the United States support the creation of a Palestinian state? | ||
| No | g) Do you support increasing sanctions on Iran if it continues to defy United Nations mandates? | ||
| Yes | h) Do you support the withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq? | ||
| No | i) Do you support the United States' involvement in free trade agreements? | ||
| What ever happened to thinking of America first? So? now we are subject to paying countries to be helpful in Free Trade? We are also required to pay countries cash incentives to do the right thing funded by IOUs issued to our grandchildren? I am not sure if anyone has noticed, but our country is not only broke, but indebted beyond repayment. Can you, the voter, stand, think and realize that we need to stop spending money we do not have? Party systems have issued a long history of sadness with their track record. Have you had enough yet? | |||
| Yes | a) Should marriage only be between one man and one woman? | ||
| No | b) Do you support allowing openly-gay men and women to serve in the United States military? | ||
| No | c) Do you support federal funding for embryonic stem cell research? | ||
| Yes | d) Should the federal government end affirmative action programs? | ||
| Research has shown that homes with a father (man) and mother (woman) that are married produce children that are more stable, productive, and successful in all aspects of life. The traditional definition and practice of marriage as solely a legal union between one man and one woman is best. I will support a constitutional amendment to preclude any challenges to the tradition of marriage based on spurious constitutional claims. | |||
| Polls noticeably indicate that United States citizens are frustrated with their government and the two political parties that control its direction. We, as citizens of this great nation, need to utilize our individual power collectively and vote to return our voice in government. We need to return to our Constitutional Republic. State representation, by design, is a service to the people, for the people, by the people. We must stop spending make-believe money, over taxing people and industries and reduce our IOU load issued to others in the world and our unborn children. |
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