Missouri Congressional Election 2016 Political Courage Test

Abortion

1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-choice

2. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Budget

1. In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
- Yes

2. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- No

3. Other or expanded principles
- Taxes are too high, We need to balance the budget with decreased spending.

Campaign Finance

1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- No

2. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Crime

1. Do you support capital punishment for certain crimes?
- No

2. Do you support alternatives to incarceration for certain non-violent offenders such as mandatory counseling or substance abuse treatment?
- Yes

3. Do you support mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders?
- No

4. Other or expanded principles
- This is wrong for many reasons. The majority of people in prison are non-violent drug offenders. Their lives are ruined and hey come out of prison as hardened criminals. Plus it cost a lot of money to incarcerate them.

Economy

1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- No

2. Do you support lowering taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes

3. Do you support providing tax incentives to businesses for the purpose of job creation?
- No

4. Other or expanded principles
- We should not pick and choose companies for tax incentives. Corporate taxes should be lower across the board.

Education

1. Do you generally support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- No

2. Other or expanded principles
- Each state has different needs and circumstances. There should not be a one size fits all approach to education. Each state should be allowed to customize their education programs. Innovation occurs when new things are tried.

Energy

1. Do you support building the Keystone XL pipeline?
- Yes

2. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- No

3. Do you support increased regulations on the hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") industry?
- No

4. Other or expanded principles
- Any problems with hydraulic fracturing are highly overrated. There is an unfounded hysteria in the part of environmentalists over this.

Environment

1. Do you believe that human activity is contributing to climate change?
- Yes

2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- No

3. Other or expanded principles
- There is an unfounded hysteria in the part of environmentalists over this. The dire predictions made 20 and 30 years ago never came true. Their current dire predictions have no credibility.

Guns

1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- No

2. Other or expanded principles
- The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. What is the confusion about? People have a right to defend themselves.

Health Care

1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- No

2. Other or expanded principles
- It?s another disastrous government program. It?s wrong in principle and wrong in practice.

Immigration

1. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- No

2. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Marriage

1. Do you support same-sex marriage?
- Yes

2. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

National Security

1. Do you support increased American intervention in Iraq and Syria beyond air support?
- No

2. Should the U.S use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the United States from possessing a nuclear weapon?
- No

3. Other or expanded principles
- It?s hypocritical for us to have it and tell other countries they can?t.

Social Security

1. Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts?
- Yes

2. Other or expanded principles
- The politicians have mismanaged the social security funds. They should not force citizens to participate in their program. We should be allowed to invest in other options.

Spending and Taxes

1. Agriculture
- Eliminate

2. Arts
- Eliminate

3. Defense
- Greatly Decrease

4. Education
- Eliminate

5. Environment
- Greatly Decrease

6. Homeland Security
- Greatly Decrease

7. International aid
- Eliminate

8. Medical Research
- Eliminate

9. Scientific Research
- Eliminate

10. Space exploration
- Eliminate

11. United Nations
- Eliminate

12. Welfare
- Eliminate

13. Other or expanded categories
- Most government programs are well intended and try to address worthy cause. However they should not be forcibly funded through taxes.

1. Capital gains taxes
- Eliminate

2. Corporate taxes
- Eliminate

3. Small business taxes
- Eliminate

4. Excise taxes (alcohol)
- Eliminate

5. Excise taxes (cigarettes)
- Eliminate

6. Excise taxes (transportation fuel)
- Eliminate

7. Income taxes (low-income families)
- Eliminate

8. Income taxes (middle-income families)
- Greatly Decrease

9. Income taxes (high-income families)
- Slightly Decrease

10. Inheritance taxes
- Eliminate

11. Payroll taxes
- Greatly Decrease

12. Other or expanded categories
- The government tries to get their hand s on our money any way they can. Taxes are too complicated. We need to reduce spending and leave taxpayers alone.

Administrative Priorities

Please explain in a total of 100 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- Reduce spending, balance the budget it wrong morally to pass our bills on to future taxpayers and wrong fiscally to run a debt, end federal government intervention in state education programs, end federal programs for cannabis prohibition.