Gregory Nabel's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Presidential Election 2012 Political Courage Test
| Pro-choice | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| The real-life-problem is not knowing when to preserve life over death. Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, is being aware, knowing, educated in real life experiences. Ignorance, pride, generations of falsehoods give false views & perceptions. Times of eminent harm leading death to mother or child, mandatory professional information necessary. Factual psychological, physiological variables determine eminent, life-long suffering options to preserve life. All parties concerned are held accountable regarding to choose-first preserving life over death of another. Life-long suffering is defined as death will occur without life-preserving procedures. Options to preserve life over life-long suffering or death is second choice. | |||
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? | ||
| No | 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 | ||
| Maintain Status | b) Arts | ||
| Maintain Status | c) Defense | ||
| Slightly Increase | d) Education | ||
| Slightly Increase | e) Environment | ||
| Maintain Status | f) Homeland Security | ||
| Maintain Status | g) International aid | ||
| Slightly Increase | h) Medical Research | ||
| Slightly Increase | i) Scientific Research | ||
| Slightly Increase | j) Space exploration | ||
| Maintain Status | k) United Nations | ||
| Maintain Status | l) Welfare | ||
| Slightly Increase | m) Other or expanded categories | ||
| Maintain Status | a) Capital gains taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | b) Corporate taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | c) Excise taxes (alcohol) | ||
| Maintain Status | d) Excise taxes (cigarettes) | ||
| Maintain Status | e) Excise taxes (transportation fuel) | ||
| Maintain Status | f) Income taxes (low-income families) | ||
| Maintain Status | g) Income taxes (middle-income families) | ||
| Maintain Status | h) Income taxes (high-income families) | ||
| Maintain Status | i) Inheritance taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | j) Payroll taxes | ||
| Maintain Status | k) Other or expanded categories | ||
| These three entities, (budget, spending, taxes) are synergistic/interactive causing geometric domino-ing occurrences of consequence correlated to the propensity of achieving global freedoms and availabilities to prosperity, happiness, education, health-care etc. Equal flat-tax percentages paid by all, - no exceptions. Budgeted percentage to Health-care, Social security, Infrastructures, Education, Food, Housing, Environment, Defense and Judiciary to maintain local, state, national and global unity. A flat federal, flat state tax, flat sales tax, paid by All citizens, no loop holes, no exceptions. School tax defined of while dependents / children in school(s).� | |||
| Food (agriculture), Shelter (environment), Education (arts, research & exploration), Health-care, Defense (domestic & foreign) proportional as needed sustaining a fair, safe, secure and consistent revenue to redistribute for populace infrastructures. Global prosperity enhances the United States' prosperity providing enrichment of and for individuals via education in a multi-diverse cultural populace distinguished qualities. Revenues from all citizens of a flat percentage into; social security, state government, federal government from taxes through; sales and income without exemptions. | |||
| Eliminate definitions that deter, alter, re-direct tax from any income and or sales. A flat percentage from all citizens to; Federal, State, and Social Security. Flat percentage tax on all and any Sales & on all gained gross income, no exemptions/exceptions. Revenues from all/any income into; social security, state and federal government. No school tax paid by home-owners if no dependents/children in school(s). Sales tax being lowest, followed by state and then federal, -the higher of the two (sales & state) but not exceeding the total of the two: sales & state govt tax. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| I support that any monies received must be counted as income, taxed and distributed into; social security, federal and state government. Received monies or any valued sources are income to the recipient and will be taxed. Donations can not exceed the amount of taxes paid by the giver based on current taxed year or nearest completed taxed year. | |||
| Yes | Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes? | ||
| Question: If able (without-harm to self or another) prevent person(s) from, death, killing, maiming, harming self or others, are you guilty of purposefully contributing to the death, killing, maiming, harming of another human being? Penalizing anyone to death propitiates the psychological authorization that it is OK to kill if one can get away with it. When someone is "accused" or witnessed as killing another, all test (psychological, pathological, physiological, DNA, forensics, polygraph, hypnosis, truth serum) tests presented to jury. If convicted of capitol crime, the guilty shall be imprisoned and forfeit their life in an efficient and expedient manner. | |||
| Yes | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| No | 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? | ||
| The state and federal government place taxes for the infrastructure, education and health for citizens. Business defined, -to obtain customers for profit -Not-Benefiting from non-paying tax-breaks owning a business. (The fox guarding the hen house?) Its our elected government's responsibility to be responsible/accountable to constituents health , safety and welfare. | |||
| No | Do you support requiring states to implement education reforms in order to be eligible for competitive federal grants? | ||
| I don't support requiring states to adhere to federal regulations, instead I support the provision for special free-grant monies for the student. The funds are to further the education in any accredited program from, trade schools to universities. Obtaining funds (scholarship of federal grant) includes any accredited, degree, certificate, license etc. The scholarship-grand is for the first year of any college or graduation with, degree, certification, diploma, license what ever comes from the students school of acceptance. | |||
| No | 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 support reducing restrictions on offshore energy production? | ||
| I believe humans will take part in any activity as needed to sustain their lives with any tool, idea, technology that is available. That will-full waste and will-full pollution by humans is from the materials humans are in possession of or utilize to maintain their lives as technology provides. That local, state and federal governing powers are accountable to the preservation of ecological health related standards, values to enhance the physical, psychological, moral and spiritual welfare of their constituents with due care and concern. | |||
| Yes | Do you support United States' combat operations in Afghanistan? | ||
| Yes | Do you support a timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan? | ||
| Yes | Do you support targeting suspected terrorists outside of official theaters of conflict? | ||
| I support the necessary use of force as needed to defend and stop the behaviors of aggression in physical, psychological, moral or spiritual issues to those that are unable to defend or protect themselves from any formed aggressive and or hostile threatening behaviors. ALL use of-force is stopped in correlation with those forces of aggression. That use of force is extended no further then to the extent of which the source of force originates. | |||
| Yes | Do you support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns? | ||
| I support restrictions as I support the NRA as one of the leading examples of safety and the leading advocate of the U.S. Constitution, Second Amendment of the right of the people to keep and bear arms. I support the three day "cool-off" period to include background check, fingerprint check and registration. | |||
| Yes | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act? | ||
| Yes | Should individuals be required to purchase health insurance, as mandated in the 2010 Affordable Care Act? | ||
| ALL state, federal tax paying citizens are provided, public, private, state, federal health care budgeted by their-selves or based on proportionately paid taxes. Options to purchase additional public, private care by free market place competitiveness. ALL provided health care, physical, psychological well being. All citizens health care is indicative of minimum mandatory healthy life style included diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, therapy for physical, psychological well being. Non-citizens have equal treatment before deportation processing. Non-citizens country of origin is mandated to pay for all expenses in some manner or form. | |||
| 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? | ||
| No | Do you support the enforcement of federal immigration law by state and local police? | ||
| I support that any and all persons working, living in the U.S., pay taxes to local, state and federal agencies. That those illegal person who are arrested and found guilty of a crime by legal, moral and ethical means as in the US Constitution be returned to their country of origin. That country of citizenship is responsible for, transportation fee, housing fee and court fees by the country of origin due to that countries inability to provide a conducive living environment for its own citizens. | |||
| Yes | Do you support same-sex marriage? | ||
| Marriage is a legal contract not binding/preserving love, spiritualism, religion, biological conventionality, aspirations nor dogma's. Marriage is a legally binding contract ensuring economic regularities to each partner in-contract of specified relationship economically mandated by laws of state and federal government. Gender definition varies accordingly to physiological parameters not by religious, political governing powers. All benefits from tax paying citizens, married or single, become owned to each-another for both partners with legal contract of marriage. Locations, names, organizations, businesses affiliated marriage-contract ensure legal options securing legal binding documented contract of legal fees appropriate and agreed upon by all parties concerned. | |||
| No | Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts? | ||
| All tax paying citizens will pay their fare-share percentage taxes into social security being pro-active for their pending future and their nation's infrastructure. Where-as upon separate additional increased percentages into social security by citizens is their choice. Separated and treated as regular financial investments bound by the same regulations of non-governmental financial agencies to the risks or rewards providing prosperity towards personal retirements as indicative of those retirement account investments. | |||
| The Immediate redirection to update methodology of accepting revenue from tax-exemptions for funds. For the Immediate hiring for infrastructure of renovations for food/water resources, housing, roads, schools, etc. For the Immediate tariff alternative reducing costs to the American citizens affordable resources, food, merchandise, etc. For the Immediate increase to American citizen social security, eliminate redundancies from health-care, medicaid, medicare, improve public, private, corporate, open markets. For the Immediate benefits from tax-breaks exemptions redirected to benefit the American citizens in a fair, equal prosperous manner towards the propensity of united global growth prosperity. |
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