Julie Oliver's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Julie Oliver has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2020 Political Courage Test.
Texas Congressional Election 2020 Political Courage Test
| Pro-choice | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| Our state and our country are facing a healthcare crisis among women because of ideological attacks on women's access to reproductive healthcare. Every woman should have the choice of when she wants to have children, when she doesn�t, and every woman should have the freedom to raise those children in a safe, healthy environment. Julie believes that questions about a woman's health and future and bodily autonomy should be left to a woman and her doctor -- the government has no place in the discussion. | |||
| Yes | In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? | ||
| Yes | Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare? | ||
| Social Security must be expanded so that every American can retire with dignity. In this country, there is no reason that a billionaire should pay the same amount of money into Social Security as someone making $132,900 a year. We need to lift the Social Security payroll tax cap on all income over $250,000 a year. And every single American should have world-class healthcare through Medicare for All. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| Congress is supposed to represent people -- actual human beings with bills to pay, healthcare costs, and dreams to pursue. PACs, lobbies, corporations, special interests, joint committees are not people. Members of Congress should not be beholden to them. The hyper-polarization and toxicity and dysfunction we see in Congress is because it is utterly captured by corporations and big money. We need to get big money out, overturn Citizens United, and get our democracy back. | |||
| No | Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct? | ||
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| No | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| We need to rein in out-of-control military spending and instead invest in the American people -- jobs, healthcare, education, infrastructure. For too long, the Pentagon's budget has prioritized giant defense contractors and given presidents free rein to wage endless wars, which has the opposite effect of its intended purpose and undermines our values and security. | |||
| Yes | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| No | Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| Yes | Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19? | ||
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| Trickle down economics has been thoroughly debunked. The GOP tax cuts of 2017 were a transparent giveaway to multinational corporations and the very wealthy -- and data show no statistically meaningful relationship between the size of the tax cut that companies received and the investments they made. If anything, the companies that received the biggest tax cuts increased their capital investment by less. Raise taxes on corporations and the very wealthy and invest in America. | |||
| 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? | ||
| No | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")? | ||
| Yes | Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19? | ||
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| No | Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border? | ||
| No | Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? | ||
| No | Should the United States use military force to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a weapon of mass destruction (for example: nuclear, biological, chemical)? | ||
| Yes | Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts? | ||
| No | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| We should put people ahead of multinational corporations -- and we should approach international trade in a way that creates and defends good American jobs, increases wages, combats climate change, lowers prescription prices, and improves living standards worldwide. We need to make the climate crisis and labor standards central to any agreement. | |||
| Ensuring that every single American has high-quality healthcare, is able to see a doctor, and can afford prescriptions�no matter if they�re young or old, have pre-existing conditions or not. Fighting the climate crisis by transitioning the U.S. economy to 100% renewable electricity by 2035. Combatting the public health crisis of gun violence. We will fund our priorities by reversing the 2017 GOP tax cuts so that corporations and the ultra-wealthy pay their fair share -- to fund paid family leave, rural broadband Internet, world class public education, infrastructure, and other public goods. |
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