John Buckley's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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John Buckley has refused to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2014 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests.
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 2014.
- "I oppose abortion and believe that the law should ban abortion and protect the innocent." (votesmart.org)
- "I support across-the-board tax reduction." (votesmart.org)
- "I will not vote for deficit spending, any increase in the debt ceiling, or any increase in federal spending." (votesmart.org)
- "I support balanced budgets -- at a grossly reduced level of spending; the elimination of such federal agencies as the Departments of Education, Housing and Urban Development, and Health and Human Services (and significant budget cuts in all other federal departments)" (votesmart.org)
- "The point is not whether cupcakes are worse than apples, it's whether such decisions ought to be made by states, principals, and parents or by the centralized dictates of Big Nanny government." (votesmart.org)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
- "I raise more generically the idea of regulations being promulgated by executive branch agencies without final say up or down by Congress, this idea that Congress passes generalized legislation like the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act and the executive branch agencies can run with regulations and have the final say so--that is I think a mistake in the way separation of powers should work. On the federal level I want a more fundamental reconsideration of agency regulations, at least of a certain economic burden, they ought to be required to go back to Congress for an affirmative vote." (votesmart.org)
- "The country should continue to ensure that the coal industry pays the cost of its pollution," Buckley said. "Rather than externalizing that cost." (votesmart.org)
- "I am 100 percent in favor of Second Amendment rights, including the right to self-defense, not just to hunt." (votesmart.org)
- "The Obama Administration's continuing patches, "fixes," delays, and selective exemptions only highlight that Obamacare is an ongoing disaster." (votesmart.org)
- "I don't know how to do that, since taking immigrants who are hardworking and contributing and sending them back home to countries they are not a part of any longer is not practical either." (votesmart.org)
- "I support and the Mountain Party supports a clear and fair pathway to citizenship for those coming in the U.S. for economic opportunity." (votesmart.org)
- "Younger voters however conservative politically or culturally they are have advanced light years forward on the issue of marriage. For younger voters it's really not an issue at all, gay marriage." (votesmart.org)
- "There is a unifying thread to many issues of privacy and property rights: the National Security Agency's warrantless spying on phone calls, the authority affirmed by the National Defense Authorization Act to confine American citizens without Constitutional protection whatsoever -- indefinitely! -- on mere suspicion of "association" (whatever that means) with terrorism, law enforcement agencies tracing the movements of our automobiles, asset forfeiture as a tool in the "war" on drugs, the increased militarization of domestic law enforcement, abuse of the IRS to impede First Amendment rights, as well as the comparably less significant but nonetheless patronizing and intrusive attempts by government agencies to ban or otherwise control the foods or drugs we consume." (votesmart.org)
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