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Floyd Miller's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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Floyd Miller refused to tell citizens where he stands on any of the issues addressed in the 2012 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart, national media, and prominent political leaders.

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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 2012.

  • Floyd Miller. Issue Position: Ending Abortion. 1 January 2012. "Ending Abortion is an attainable goal if we do as the new Evangelical movement prescribes and offer options and support for expecting mothers." (votesmart.org)
  • Floyd Miller. Issue Position: Immigration. 1 January 2012. "Bring home our troops and turn the border into a military base north and south." (votesmart.org)
  • Floyd Miller. Issue Position: Defense. 1 January 2012. "I believe to have peace on earth we need a strong defense, I believe that we should spend more now to protect our soldiers with armor on each of them and on the equipment they use. I agree we should invest in new technology so we as a nation are always ahead of world technology [¦] it is very apparent that with Defense budgets continuing to grow with no concern about our debt or the lack of need for more money that the War Machine has taken Control of our government [¦] I believe We The People the government of the United States Should own the companies that develop our weapons, to keep the greed of capitalism out of the war machine. This should stop over spending on the largest budget in our government, it should stop the out sourcing of vital parts, technology, and jobs to other countries. This should also keep our war machine technology and companies out of the hands of foreign governments." (votesmart.org)
  • Floyd Miller. Issue Position: Lines of Incomes. 1 January 2012. "The tax code is already in play we must increase tax on higher income [¦] The tax code in the 1950's was over 90% for the wealthiest in the country we had very low debt and vast growth in the country. Since the 50's the tax rate on wealth has come down to what is now below 15% on individuals and sometimes deferred for years and corporate tax rate on the wealthiest corporations at 4% to 0% this is what is unsustainable for our system the money must come from where it is. Most economist suggest a tax rate of around 30% to fund the United States needs." (votesmart.org)
  • Floyd Miller. Issue Position: Ending Austerity Movement. 1 January 2012. "Ending Austerity Movement, when people say that we should not follow what has been happening in Europe they are talking about Greece and Spain, which had been in control by Conservative's whom did exactly what Conservative's in America are trying to do, Ignorantly reducing Taxes on wealth and reducing the size of Government by cutting aid and jobs connected to helping the people in need and the infrastructure we all use." (votesmart.org)
  • Floyd Miller. Issue Position: Stop Corporate Well Fare. 1 January 2012. "Stop Corporate Well Fare, WE The People should be investment partners with companies the government lends, grants, gives tax incentives or breaks to." (votesmart.org)
  • Floyd Miller. Issue Position: Education. 1 January 2012. "We need a strong guide and minimum standards to education to ensure that we all get an equal start in education no matter where in the country we are educated. We need to be able to adjust across the country with new techniques in education being shared at the speed of technology. We need to fund the short falls that many communities are facing in school districts, the education of all children should never be at risk. We also must sustain areas until the economy can come back around in the parts of the country hit hardest by the recession to insure that the capitalist don't come in and steal our schools. Teachers pay should go up and when needed should be subsidized by the federal government, this will help get more people involved that our country needs to fix the system." (votesmart.org)
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  • Floyd Miller. Issue Position: Social Security. 1 January 2012. "I believe Social security should be fixed and fully funded, we owe it to our selves to secure our retirement that we the working class have been paying into [¦] We should never turn this into individual privatized stock market accounts like some conservatives have suggested, with the fluctuations in the markets and the stock brokers saying that the corrections in the market get those people out that should not be in the market we should never trust the stock market with our retirement." (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.
The Political Courage Test asks candidates which items they will support if elected. It does not ask them to indicate which items they will oppose. Through extensive research of public polling data, we discovered that voters are more concerned with what candidates would support when elected to office, not what they oppose. If a candidate does not select a response to any part or all of any question, it does not necessarily indicate that the candidate is opposed to that particular item.

Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning abortion.

a) Abortions should always be illegal.
b) Abortions should be illegal when the fetus is viable, with or without life support.
c) Abortions should always be legally available.
d) Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
X e) Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
X f) Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
g) Abortions should be limited by waiting periods and notification requirements as decided by each state government.
h) Prohibit the dilation and extraction procedure, also known as "partial birth" abortion.
i) Prohibit public funding of abortions and public funding of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
X j) Support "buffer-zones" by requiring demonstrators to stay at least five feet from abortion clinic doorways and driveways.
X k) Provide funding for family planning programs as a means to decrease the number of abortions.
X l) Other
Improve Education and Opportunities for all, as means to decrease the number of abortions.

Budgetary PrioritiesUsing the key below, indicate what levels of federal funding you support for the following general categories.

Greatly Increase Funding a) Agricultural
Slightly Decrease Funding b) Arts
Maintain Funding Status c) Defense
Greatly Increase Funding d) Education
Slightly Increase Funding e) Environmental
Slightly Decrease Funding f) International aid
Maintain Funding Status g) Law enforcement
Greatly Increase Funding h) Medical Research
Slightly Decrease Funding i) National Aeronautical Space Administration (NASA)
Slightly Decrease Funding j) National Parks
Slightly Increase Funding k) Scientific Research
Greatly Increase Funding l) Transportation and Highway Infrastructure
Slightly Increase Funding m) Welfare
n) Other
Undecided 2) Would you support enforcing the spending limits agreed to in 1997 by the President and Congress to balance the budget?

Defense SpendingUsing the key below, indicate what levels of federal funding you support for the following categories.

Maintain Funding Status a) Armed Forces personnel training
Slightly Decrease Funding b) Covert intelligence operations
Greatly Decrease Funding c) Defense plant conversion
Maintain Funding Status d) Military hardware
Slightly Decrease Funding e) Military space shuttle missions
Greatly Increase Funding f) Pay for active duty personnel
Greatly Decrease Funding g) National Missile Defense Program
Slightly Increase Funding h) Modernization of weaponry and equipment
Slightly Increase Funding i) Programs to improve military retention rates
Slightly Increase Funding j) Research and development of new weapons
Maintain Funding Status k) Troop and equipment readiness
Greatly Increase Funding l) Other
Using Personnel for Education and Health Care.

Budget SurplusUsing the key below, indicate your priorities for spending any anticipated federal budget surplus.

Medium Priority a) Defense
Highest Priority b) Education
High Priority c) Federal debt reduction
Highest Priority d) Medicare
High Priority e) Social Security
Low Priority f) Tax cuts
g) Other

TaxesUsing the key below, indicate what levels you support concerning taxes, deductions, and tax credits in the following categories.Income Taxes - Family IncomeIncome Taxes - Retiree IncomeOther TaxesDeductions/Credits

Greatly Decrease a) Less than $25,000
Slightly Decrease b) $25,000 - $75,000
Maintain Status c) $75,000 - $150,000
Slightly Increase d) Over $150,000
Greatly Increase e) Other
Greatly Decrease f) Over $40, 000
Eliminate g) Other
Greatly Increase a) Alcohol taxes
Slightly Decrease b) Capital gains taxes
Greatly Increase c) Cigarette taxes
Slightly Increase d) Corporate taxes
Slightly Decrease e) Gasoline taxes
Maintain Status f) Inheritance taxes
g) Other
Maintain Status a) Charitable deductions
Greatly Increase b) Medical expense deductions
Maintain Status c) Mortgage deductions
Maintain Status d) Child tax credit
Maintain Status e) Earned income tax credit
Greatly Increase f) Student loan tax credit
g) Other
over 500,000
below 15,000

Taxes

No 2) Do you support replacing the current U.S. income tax structure with a flat income tax?
Undecided 3) Should a married couple filing jointly pay the same taxes as if they were an unmarried couple filing separately?
No 4) Would you cut taxes if there were an operating surplus?
No 5) Would you cut taxes and use Social Security surpluses to supplement the difference?
Use surplus for debt reduction, Improve Education and Health Care.

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance issues.

X a) Support public taxpayer funding for Congressional candidates who comply with campaign spending limits.
b) Increase the amount individuals are permitted to contribute to federal campaigns.
X c) Prohibit Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions to candidates for federal office.
X d) Provide free or low-cost television advertising to candidates who agree to voluntary campaign spending limits.
X e) Ban unregulated soft money campaign contributions to political parties or committees.
X f) Prohibit non-U.S. citizens from making soft money contributions to national parties or party committees.
X g) Require full disclosure of funding sources of issue advocacy commercials which appear within 60 days of an election.
X h) Make campaign spending limits mandatory for all federal candidates.
i) Remove all contribution limits on federal candidates and parties, but require complete and immediate disclosure via the Internet.
X j) Require Congressional candidates to raise over half of their campaign money from their home state.
k) Other

Indicate which principles you support (if any) to address crime.

a) Broaden the use of the death penalty for federal crimes.
b) Increase spending to build more federal prisons.
X c) Impose "truth in sentencing" for violent criminals so they serve full sentences with no chance of parole.
X d) Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
X e) Support programs to provide prison inmates with drug and alcohol addiction treatment.
f) Increase penalties for crimes committed on school grounds.
g) Increase funding for community policing programs.
X h) Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
X i) Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation, and disability be prosecuted as federal hate crimes.
X j) Enforcement of civil rights should primarily be the responsibility of the federal government.
k) Prosecute as adults, youths accused of a felony.
X l) Provide block grants to states for implementation of programs to combat juvenile crime.
X m) Impose harsher penalties for youths convicted of violent offenses.
n) Support the use of "boot camps" as alternative sentencing for juvenile offenders.
X o) Support programs that provide job training and placement services for at-risk youth.
p) Other

Indicate (ü) which principles you support (if any) concerning illegal drugs.

a) Increase penalties for selling illegal drugs.
b) Support mandatory jail sentences for selling illegal drugs.
c) Support capital punishment for convicted international drug traffickers.
X d) Expand federally sponsored drug education and drug treatment programs.
X e) Decriminalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.
f) Increase border security to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S.
X g) Eliminate federal funding for programs associated with the "war on drugs."
X h) Other
Legalize the use of marijuana and tax highly.

Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning education (K-12).

a) Support national standards and testing of public school students.
b) Allow parents to use vouchers (equal opportunity scholarships) to send their children to any publicly-funded school.
c) Allow parents to use vouchers (equal opportunity scholarships) to send their children to any participating school: public, private or religious.
d) Allow parents to use tax-free savings accounts to send their children to any publicly-funded school.
e) Allow parents to use tax-free savings accounts to send their children to any participating school: public, private or religious.
f) Support charter schools where teachers and professionals receive authorization and funding to establish new schools.
g) Promote education flexibility by giving federal funds, in the form of block grants, to the states to spend it as they see fit.
X h) Increase funding for block grants to states to help them hire additional teachers.
X i) Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.
X j) Increase funding for computers and computer training in public schools.
X k) Increase funding for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
l) Eliminate restrictions on federal education funding, giving educators or local school districts more flexibility to design and implement their programs.
m) Support affirmative action in public college admissions.
n) Eliminate federal financial aid for individuals convicted of drug offenses.
X o) Increase funding of programs such as Pell grants and Stafford loans to help students pay for college.
X p) Support federal tax incentives to help families save for college.
X q) Other
Incentives for teachers new and old, more college funding for all who whish to attend.

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding employment and affirmative action.

a) Provide tax credits for companies that move job-creating industries into areas with high unemployment.
X b) Increase funding for national job-training programs that re-train displaced workers or teach skills needed in today's job market.
c) Reduce government regulation of the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
d) Establish empowerment zones in areas with large numbers of unemployed people.
e) Eliminate any federal programs designed to reduce unemployment.
X f) Increase the federal minimum wage.
g) Encourage employers to offer flex-time scheduling, comp-time, and unpaid leave for family emergencies.
h) Provide tax credits for businesses that offer on-site child care.
i) The federal government should consider race and sex in making government contracting decisions.
j) The federal government should continue affirmative action programs.
k) The federal government should discontinue affirmative action programs.
l) The federal government should utilize merit and qualifications in making government contracting decisions.
m) Other

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding America's environment and natural resources.

X a) Strengthen the regulation and enforcement of the Clean Water Act.
X b) Strengthen the regulation and enforcement of the Clean Air Act.
c) Waive environmental review requirements for grazing permits.
X d) Revise the 1872 mining law to increase the fees charged to mining companies using federal lands.
X e) Require states to fully compensate citizens when environmental regulations limit uses of privately owned land.
X f) Encourage further development and use of alternative fuels to reduce pollution.
g) Strengthen emission controls on all gasoline or diesel-powered engines, including cars, trucks, and sport utility vehicles.
h) Promote the selling of pollution credits between nations to encourage industries to decrease pollution levels.
i) Strengthen logging restrictions on federal lands.
j) Reduce current federal regulations on the environment.
k) Give states added flexibility from the federal government in enforcing and funding federal environment regulations.
l) Other

Indicate which principles you support (if any) concerning gun issues.

a) Ban the sale or transfer of semi-automatic guns, except those used for hunting.
b) Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
c) Ease federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
d) Repeal federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
e) Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
f) Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
g) Increase penalties for the possession of any illegal guns.
X h) Hold gun owners responsible for crimes committed with their guns by children age 16 and under.
i) Raise the minimum age for ownership of handguns from 18 to 21.
j) Require background checks of gun buyers at gun shows.
X k) Require a license for gun possession.
l) Other

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health issues.

a) Providing health care is not a responsibility of the federal government.
X b) Implement a universal health care program to guarantee coverage to all Americans regardless of income.
X c) Support health care strategies focused on prevention, including health education, and natural medicines and remedies.
X d) Support a Patient's Bill of Rights to define and enforce the rights of insured patients, including greater access to specialists and emergency rooms, wider choice of health care providers, and appeal mechanisms when claims are denied.
X e) Support a Patient's Bill of Rights which includes the right to sue when claims are denied.
X f) Support a Patient's Bill of Rights which includes the right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied.
X g) Provide tax incentives to small businesses that provide health care to their employees.
X h) Expand eligibility for tax-free medical savings accounts, which would be taxed if used for purposes other than medical costs.
i) Limit the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
X j) Allow states and local communities to use federal funds for needle-exchange programs to combat the spread of HIV.
X k) Provide citizens age 55-65 the option of purchasing Medicare health coverage.
X l) Support legislation to provide prescription drug coverage under Medicare.
X m) Increase funding for AIDS programs.
X n) Other
Make insurance companies a nonprofit organization in health care.

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding immigration.

a) Decrease the number of immigrants allowed into the country.
X b) Increase the eligibility of legal immigrants for certain social programs (e.g. public housing, food stamps).
c) Require the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to reduce the time between applying for citizenship and taking the oath of allegiance to six months.
X d) Provide extra federal aid to states with higher numbers of immigrants for necessary medical and social services.
X e) Prohibit states from passing laws that deny human services (medical care, education) to illegal immigrants or their children.
f) Grant U.S. citizenship to children born in the US only if their parents immigrated legally.
g) Increase the immigration quota for computer scientists and other information technology workers.
h) Establish English as the official national language.
i) Support the separation of the INS into two bureaus: one administering naturalization and one administering border patrol.
j) Increase state autonomy in handling immigration issues.
X k) Reimburse states for providing services to illegal aliens.
l) Other

International AidIndicate which principles (if any) you support regarding U.S. International Aid.

X a) Aid should be granted to countries when extraordinary circumstances cause disaster and threaten civilian lives.
X b) Aid should be granted to countries when it is in the security interests of the U. S.
X c) Aid should be granted to countries that are close allies of the U. S. and in need of financial/military assistance.
d) Aid should be eliminated for any nation with documented human rights abuses.
e) Aid programs should be scaled back and eventually eliminated except for extraordinary circumstances.
f) Other

International PolicyIndicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the Middle East.Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the United States-United Nations relationship.

a) The U.S. should resolve future disputes with Iraq only through diplomatic means.
b) The U.S. should take unilateral military action if Iraq does not comply with all accepted United Nations resolutions.
c) The U.S. should take military action against Iraq only as part of an international effort.
d) The U.S. should end the economic embargo against Iraq.
e) The U.S. should not continue to play a prominent leadership role in the peace process between Israel and the Palestine Authority.
f) The U.S. should continue to play a prominent leadership role in the peace process between Israel and the Palestine Authority.
g) Other
a) The U.S. should participate in United Nations peacekeeping missions only when vital U.S. interests are involved.
b) The U.S. should not commit military troops to United Nations peacekeeping missions.
c) The U.S. should withdraw completely from the United Nations.
d) The U.S. should pay its debt to the United Nations.
e) Other
Yes 3) Should the U.S. have full diplomatic relations with Cuba?
Yes 4) Should the U.S. have full diplomatic relations with China?
Undecided 5) Should the U.S. recognize and extend full diplomatic relations to Taiwan?
Undecided 6) Should the US maintain ground troops in Kosovo?
Yes 7) Do you support the cooperative threat reduction programs with Russia to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons to unfriendly nations?
No 8) Do you support modifying the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in order to deploy the National Missile Defense System?
Other

International Trade

No 1) Do you support the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
Undecided 2) Do you support the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
Undecided 3) Do you support continued U.S. membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
Undecided 4) Do you support China becoming a member of the World Trade Organization?
Yes 5) Do you support imposing tariffs on products imported from nations that maintain restrictive trade barriers on American products?
Yes 6) Should a nation's human rights record affect its normal trade relations (most favored nation status) with the United States?
Undecided 7) Do you support normal trade relations (most favored nation status) with Vietnam?
No 8) Do you support granting the President "fast-track" authority in trade negotiations?
No 9) Do you support the trade embargo against Cuba?
No.

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding Social Security.

a) Allow workers to invest a portion of their payroll tax in private accounts which they manage themselves.
b) Allow workers to invest a portion of their payroll tax in private accounts managed by private firms contracted by the government.
c) Invest a portion of Social Security's assets collectively in stocks and bonds instead of U.S. Treasury securities.
d) Increase the payroll tax to better finance Social Security in its current form.
e) Lower Social Security's annual cost-of-living increases.
f) Limit Social Security benefits based on recipients' other income and assets.
X g) Require individuals to pay the Social Security tax on incomes above $68,400 (which is currently exempt).
X h) Support a lock box measure, limiting Congress's ability to spend Social Security and Medicare surpluses on any other federal programs except Social Security and Medicare, until each program's long-term solvency is guaranteed.
i) Other

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding technology.

a) Continuing the moratorium on Internet sales taxes.
b) Implement regulation of Internet content by the federal government.
c) Support on-line voter registration.
d) Support voting on-line.
e) Support government mandates to curtail violent and sexual content on television.
f) Support strict penalties for Internet crimes such as hacking and Internet violence.
X g) Support strong Internet privacy laws.
h) Regulating the Internet should not in any way be controlled by the federal government.
i) Other
Yes Do you support amending the Constitution to limit the number of terms which members of Congress can serve?

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding poverty and the welfare system.

X a) Support housing assistance for welfare recipients.
X b) Provide homeless families with apartment vouchers they can use to supplement the cost of an apartment.
X c) Continue to give states and local governments responsibility for welfare programs through TANF block grants.
d) Maintain current welfare-to-work requirements in order for states to qualify for block grants.
X e) Restore food stamp programs to legal immigrants.
f) Transfer homeless housing programs to states through block grants.
X g) Provide continued Medicaid benefits for those welfare recipients who have moved from welfare to work.
h) Require states to return any unused welfare block grant funding to the federal government.
i) Direct federal poverty aid through religious, community-based or other non-profit organizations.
j) Other
1. Education--More teachers--Better Pay--Better Buildings--implement new techniques and materials. More money for all who wish to attend college. 2. Medicare/Healthcare--Fully fund Medicare to include prescription drugs and complete coverage for recovery diagnoses. 3. Minimum Wage, Raise according to inflation Use tax surplus to pay down debt and fully fund programes. Reduce Taxes after debt is gone and all programes fully funded for the future.

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