Mike Barkley's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
On The Ballot: Running, Democratic for U.S. House (CA) - District 5
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Mike Barkley has failed to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2024 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.
Issue Positions
For Presidential and Congressional candidates who refuse to provide voters with their positions, Vote Smart has researched their public records to determine their likely responses. These issue positions are from 2024.
- "Ensure Planned Parenthood is treated equally in all Government funding." (mjbarkl.com)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- "Actual Medicare for All (lower the eligible age to zero, still requires supplemental insurance, and since Medicare is optional, it would be a "public option")." (mjbarkl.com)
- "Adopt Medicare for All." (mjbarkl.com)
- "Increase the amount retirees can earn without adversely impacting their Social Security. Avoid raising the Social Security retirement age; restore it to 65." (mjbarkl.com)
- "Restore income averaging for personal income taxes." (mjbarkl.com)
- "Repeal the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, at a lower level than the $400,000 proposed by President Obama." (mjbarkl.com)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- "Ensure and protect, retroactively, the Freedom of Speech/Freedom of Press/Freedom of Petition rights of citizens to film with audio actions of law enforcement on duty or in public." (mjbarkl.com)
- 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.
- 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.
- "Provide that no student loan shall bear an interest rate higher than the lowest rate charged banks by the Treasury or the Federal Reserve. Ban the inclusion of student loans on credit reports until such time as they are subject to bankruptcy." (mjbarkl.com)
- "Forgive student debt for STEM graduates at the time they receive their diplomas." (mjbarkl.com)
- "Require deferral of student loans for military on active duty. Require deferral of student loans for disabled people for the duration of the disability.Exempt Social Security from student loan garnishment." (mjbarkl.com)
- "Ban the increasing state-level insistance on government-issued photo-IDs for voting, limits on student voting, and limits on same-day registration." (mjbarkl.com)
- "Require energy independence. Ban exporting raw fossil fuels and certain specified end products of their refinement, with no exemption for free trade zones. Subsidize the reestablishment of refineries in the U.S." (mjbarkl.com)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- Rated 0% by National Rifle Association (NRA) (None)
- "Impose an annual license fee on firearms, small for a single gun, escalating for quantity." (mjbarkl.com)
- "Repeal the right to keep and bear arms." (mjbarkl.com)
- "Amend: Every person within the geographic borders of the United States and its territories is entitled to government-funded health care." (mjbarkl.com)
- "Actual Medicare for All (lower the eligible age to zero, still requires supplemental insurance, and since Medicare is optional, it would be a "public option")." (mjbarkl.com)
- "Adopt Medicare for All."
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- "Strengthen the powers of the Treasury, FDA, and Medicare to hold hearings to identify price-gouging for a specific drug, identify a reasonable retail price for that drug, and then take through eminent domain the right to manufacture and sell that drug for the valuation based on that price." (mjbarkl.com)
- "Allow Medicare to negotiate price on drugs, medical devices, equipment, CT or MRI scans, etc." (mjbarkl.com)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- "Eliminate all citizenship application waiting periods and any requirement to return to the home country for them, including any already deported but excluding those awaiting prosecution for or convicted of a felony or accepting deportation in lieu of prosecution for a felony unless the felony is an immigration law violation." (mjbarkl.com)
- 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.
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.
| Yes | Do you support expanding federal funding to support social safety net programs such as Social Security and Medicare? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations,unions, and individuals? | ||
| No | Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the forgiveness of federal student loan debt? | ||
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| Unknown Position | Do you support requiring a government-issued identification in order to vote at the polls? | ||
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| Yes | Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)? | ||
| Yes | Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| Unknown Position | Do you support raising taxes, on any income or on any entity, to promote economic growth? | ||
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| No | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| 1) Solve California's water problems: mjbarkl.com/floods.txt because of mjbarkl.com/floods.htm 2) Reverse Congress's role in homelessness and escalating rents by: a) revise the anti-commercial rental tax shelter destruction in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, b) repeal the Faircloth Amendment and restore subsidized housing funding, c) Restore sub-prime lending 3) Repeal the right to keep and bear arms, mjbarkl.com/repeal.htm - to my knowledge I am the first Congressional candidate supporting this with a major party endorsement |
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