Pro-life | a) Do you consider yourself pro-choice or pro-life? | ||
b) Should abortion be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy? | |||
Yes | c) Should abortion be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape? | ||
Yes | 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? | ||
f) Other or expanded principles |
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.
a) Agriculture | |||
b) Arts | |||
c) Defense | |||
1) Intelligence operations | |||
2) Military hardware | |||
3) National missile defense | |||
4) Salary and benefits for active duty personnel | |||
5) Programs to improve troop retention rates | |||
6) Research and development of new weapons | |||
d) Education | |||
e) Environment | |||
f) Homeland security | |||
Eliminate | g) International aid | ||
h) Medical research | |||
i) Scientific research | |||
j) Space exploration | |||
Eliminate | k) United Nations | ||
Eliminate | l) Welfare | ||
m) Other or expanded categories | |||
a) Alcohol taxes | |||
Eliminate | b) Capital gains taxes | ||
c) Cigarette taxes | |||
d) Corporate taxes | |||
e) Gasoline taxes | |||
Eliminate | f) Income taxes (low-income families) | ||
Eliminate | g) Income taxes (middle-income families) | ||
Eliminate | h) Income taxes (high-income families) | ||
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? | ||
6) Other or expanded principles |
Yes | a) Do you support increasing the amount individuals are permitted to contribute to federal campaigns? | ||
No | b) Should Congress regulate indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
No | c) Do you support removing all contribution limits on federal campaigns? | ||
No | 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? | ||
g) Other or expanded principles |
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? | ||
Yes | e) Do you support mandatory prison sentences for selling illegal drugs? | ||
f) Other or expanded principles |
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? | ||
No | c) Do you support federal funding for charter schools? | ||
No | d) Do you support federal funding for K-12 school vouchers? | ||
No | e) Do you support the federal government providing college students with financial aid? | ||
f) Other or expanded principles |
No | 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? | ||
e) Other or expanded principles |
No | a) Do you support a publicly-administered health insurance option? | ||
b) Do you support expanding access to health care through commercial health insurance reform? | |||
c) Should the federal government expand eligibility for tax-free medical savings accounts? | |||
d) Do you support monetary limits on damages that can be collected in malpractice lawsuits? | |||
e) Do you support relaxing regulations on the importation of prescription drugs? | |||
f) Other or expanded principles |
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? | ||
e) Other or expanded principles |
No | 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? | ||
d) Should the United States continue to strike suspected terrorist targets in Pakistan? | |||
e) Do you support granting aid to countries when it is in the security interests of the United States? | |||
f) Should the United States support the creation of a Palestinian state? | |||
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? | ||
j) Other or expanded principles |
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