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Robert Murphy's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

On The Ballot: Running, Libertarian for State House (OK) - District 45

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Issue Positions

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  • Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? "Pro-Choice" (votesmart.org)
  • Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? "Pro-Choice" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? "Yes" (votesmart.org)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? "Yes" (votesmart.org)
  • Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct? "No" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? "No" (votesmart.org)
  • Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? "No" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
  • Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19? "No" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards? "No" (votesmart.org)
  • Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)? "No" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? "No" (votesmart.org)
  • Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? "No" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")? "Yes" (votesmart.org)
  • 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.
  • Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? "No" (votesmart.org)
  • Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? "No" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • 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.
  • Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? "Yes" (justfacts.votesmart.org)
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.
Pro-choice Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
A fetus in a woman's body should be considered her property, like her kidneys and lungs, to do with as she decides. Otherwise, you have the absurd notion of two persons in a single body - that would lead to forced pregnancy testing, dietary restrictions, and other violations of women's freedom. Women are independent, free persons, not brood mares.
No In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
No Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare?
Income taxes are immoral taxes on work. I prefer a tax on business transactions. Since the enforcement of contracts is a primary purpose of government, businesses should pay for that directly, rather than forcing workers to do it. We must balance the budget by ending wars and reducing the size and power of The State. By dismantling the tools used by the Corporate State to monopolize the economy, debase the currency, and enrich oligarchs, Social Security and Medicare should be fine and not in need of expansion.
Yes Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
Transparency is the key. People should know who's paying for the psycho-babble used to elect our rulers.
No Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct?
Badges don't grant extra rights. Bad actors must be held accountable.
No Do you support increasing defense spending?
The only military personnel beyond our borders, other than submarines, should be the Marines guarding our embassies. The neocons in charge of the Pentagon have been out of control for decades, and their whimsical attempts to impose order on the world have made us hated, murdered millions, and led us into bankruptcy. Surface ships, in this era of hypersonic weapons, are nothing but obsolete targets. We should defend only the territorial integrity of the US, adopt military neutrality, and pursue a non-interventionist foreign policy.
No 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?
No Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19?
Keynesian economics is so 20th century - brutal and ineffective. Prosperity comes from free people freely engaging in commerce, with a stable currency and no interference from the Corporate State. I support a tax on all business transactions, making business pay for enforcing contracts. Covid-19 is no worse than a bad flu season. It was an excuse for devastating the already-crumbling economy, throwing 30 million out of work, spending trillions to rescue Wall Street while the plebs, proles, and peasants are hungry and homeless. Unless we change to a Libertarian leadership, we're all doomed to be debt serfs.
No Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
I oppose the authoritarian character of public education today. Children are forced to go to school, everyone is forced to pay for it, and teachers are forced to teach the politically-dictated curriculum. Parents should have direct control and responsibility to educate their children. It should not be within the power of The State. A free market in education would serve all of us more equitably and effectively.
No Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)?
No Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
I woulsd support funding for the Navy to develop Thorium reactors for use on its ships, with the technology being made available for commercial use, much like the Internet. Thorium is a radioactive element that can produce power, but not bombs, can burn up the radioactive waste we've already produced, and seems to be our best option for future electricity production. Efforts to regulate greenhouse emissions are futile and destructive. The general inertia of our planetary atmosphere renders such efforts as minuscule compared to the release of methane from the permafrost of the polar regions. Don't give bureaucrats more power.
No Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
"Fear no man because of size, with a Colt revolver you can equalize." So said an early advertisement for guns. It encompasses the essence for the arguments against "gun control". Efforts to control guns are misguided and quixotic. The old and weak are left disarmed, while violent criminals will ignore such prohibitions. There are evil people in the world. Some of them deserve to get shot.
Yes 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?
I support the repeal of all laws interfering with the relationships between medical practitioners and their patients. The monopolistic practices of Medical Associations, hospital administrators, insurance companies, and Pharmaceutical companies, aided and abetted by legislators, have driven costs up. We need a free market in medical care. Business should be required to provide paid medical leave for Covid-19 only to the extent that they've contracted to provide such for any illness. Covid-19 is not special; its a coronavirus, like any other flu. The apparent susceptibility to hysteria and propaganda about it makes me fear for my species.
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?
A Mexican Wall is a waste of time and money. Anyone who sets foot on American soil should be considered a free person, able to work for their living and pay taxes like the rest of us. If they want to become voting citizens, though, they need to go through the naturalization process and learn about our ways.
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?
Other countries are hostile to the US because our government has been full of a**holes since the Spanish-American War. It's too futile and too costly to try to prevent them from adopting any weapons available. To paraphrase Bismarck, "a Mideast conflict is not worth the bones of a single Dalmatian Grenadier." We need to end our endless wars and adopt a non-interventionist foreign policy.
Yes Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
Americans should be free to trade with anyone, anywhere in the world, without restrictions or tariffs, and rise or fall on the wisdom of those transactions.
Underpinning most of our problems is the ability of the banking cartel known as the Federal Reserve to steadily debase our currency. Our currency should be controlled by the Treasury, not the banks. We should end all foreign wars and develop military neutrality, non-intervention, and free trade.

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