| VoteMatch Responses
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| VoteMatch Question & Answer (Click on question for explanation and background) |
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| Strongly Opposes Abortion is a woman's right | Abortion: Recommends pledging pro-life platform, VP, & judges Abortion: Limit abortions via step-by-step laws Abortion: Life begins at conception; abortion leads to “extinction” Abortion: Restrictions now; persuasion to make them disappear |
| Opposes Require companies to hire more women & minorities | Civil Rights: No race or gender quotas nor preference |
| Supports Sexual orientation protected by civil rights laws | Civil Rights: Would hire gays if they share his principles |
| Strongly Supports Organized Prayer In Public Schools | Civil Rights: Ten Commandments & prayer in schools Civil Rights: School prayer OK; civil rights are local issues Civil Rights: No separation of religion from civic life Civil Rights: Posting Ten Commandments is ‘a positive thing’ Education: Allow students to study Bible in schools |
| Opposes More Federal Funding for Health Coverage | Health Care: Replace “gatekeepers” with health care vouchers Health Care: Solve health care affordability with choice Health Care: Expand Medical Savings Accounts Health Care: Consumerism works in health care Health Care: More funds for veterans’ hospitals |
| Strongly Supports Privatize Social Security | Social Security: Private Soc. Sec. accounts for younger taxpayers Social Security: Use surplus to fund personal retirement accounts Social Security: Choose personal account or government account |
| Strongly Supports Parents Choose Schools via Vouchers | School Choice: Choice in education makes us more moral & more educated School Choice: Supports public school choice & private school choice School Choice: Supports tax-supported vouchers for religious schools School Choice: Parental control will work even in inner cities |
| Supports Death Penalty | Crime: Supports death penalty; appoint judges to implement it |
| Strongly Supports Mandatory "Three Strikes" Sentencing Laws | Crime: Stricter penalties, more prisons, longer sentences Crime: “One strike and you’re out” for violent felons |
| Supports Absolute right to gun ownership | Gun Control: Concealed carry OK; gun issues are local Gun Control: Prosecute crimes done with guns; not buying guns Gun Control: Key is to enforce 40,000 laws we have about guns now Gun Control: Supports Second Amendment rights, with limits |
| Strongly Supports Make Income Tax Flatter & Lower | Tax Reform: Top priority: throw out tax code Tax Reform: Signed no-tax pledge; will “end IRS as we know it” Tax Reform: Flat Tax of 17% on earnings over $36,000 Tax Reform: Bible has 700,000 words; Tax Code has 7 million. Junk it. |
| Opposes Immigration helps our economy-encourage it | Education: Support English immersion programs Immigration: Toughen rules on illegal immigration |
| Strongly Supports Support & Expand Free Trade | Free Trade: Replace WTO with free trade to UK, Australia, & Pacific Rim Free Trade: Do free trade ourselves, without WTO Free Trade: Hopes for WTO as worldwide arbiter & lowering barriers Free Trade: Supports Fast Track presidential trade authority |
| Strongly Supports Link Human Rights to trade with China | China: “Constructive engagement” is abject appeasement China: China: Put commerce second to human right & proliferation China: China: Block WTO entry until trade barriers fall China: China: Promote democracy and capitalism for long-term Foreign Policy: Taiwan: Unconditional US response defends against China |
| Strongly Supports More Spending on Armed Forces Personnel | Defense: Percentage of GDP on defense is too little Defense: Military has been hollowed with little to show Defense: Stop “demobilizing” US military, or pay long-term price Defense: Lack of military readiness hurts global economy |
| Strongly Opposes Reduce spending on Missile Defense ("Star Wars") | Defense: Deploy an Aegis-style missile defense worldwide now Defense: ABM Treaty was a bad idea then and worse today Defense: SDI defends against rogue states’ nuclear blackmail |
| Opposes Continue Foreign Aid to Russia, Israel, & others | Foreign Policy: Russia: Replace IMF loans with 5 rules of prosperity Foreign Policy: IMF & USAID create economic crises by hiding risk Foreign Policy: Russia: No aid to kleptocrats until they pay workers Foreign Policy: NATO: Admit Baltic States and others |
| Strongly Opposes Spend Resources to Stop Global Warming | Environment: Explore ANWR immediately, to reduce foreign oil dependence Environment: Kyoto Protocol based on flawed science & worse economics Environment: No real evidence of global warming |
| Strongly Supports Drug use is immoral: enforce laws against it | Drugs: Drugs are designed to dull our moral integrity Drugs: Legalization makes America safe for Colombian drug cartels Drugs: No medicinal marijuana - create synthetics instead |
| Supports Allow churches to provide welfare services | Welfare & Poverty: Federal welfare is devolving to state and community Welfare & Poverty: Charitable deduction gone under Flat Tax; but giving is not |