| VoteMatch Responses
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| VoteMatch Question & Answer (Click on question for explanation and background) |
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| Strongly Supports Abortion is a woman's right | Abortion: Give women a genuine right of free choice |
| Supports Require companies to hire more women & minorities | Civil Rights: Speak out against racism in any form Civil Rights: Racism linked to permanent underclass; solve both together |
| Strongly Supports Sexual orientation protected by civil rights laws | Civil Rights: Gays have made progress; battle not yet won |
| No opinion Organized Prayer In Public Schools | Education: No religious groups on public school property |
| Strongly Supports More Federal Funding for Health Coverage | Health Care: Single payer system for all basic health needs |
| Opposes Privatize Social Security | Social Security: Supports raising payroll tax; plus Lockbox Social Security: More graduated taxes to pay for Social Security |
| Opposes Parents Choose Schools via Vouchers | Education: More funding for public schools School Choice: No public funding of private schools |
| Opposes Death Penalty | Crime: Eliminate the death penalty Crime: Abolish the death penalty |
| Opposes Mandatory "Three Strikes" Sentencing Laws | Juvenile Crime: Job training & prevention for juvenile crime Crime: End the prison industry |
| No opinion Absolute right to gun ownership | Gun Control: Gun rights apply only to states, not individuals |
| Opposes Make Income Tax Flatter & Lower | Tax Reform: Keep progressive income tax; drop marriage penalty Tax Reform: More progressive taxation; especially on runaway industry |
| Supports Immigration helps our economy-encourage it | Free Trade & Immigration: More federal & state aid to immigrants Free Trade & Immigration: Amnesty for immigrants; grant them full rights |
| Opposes Support & Expand Free Trade | Free Trade & Immigration: Opposes NAFTA, GATT, WTO, Fast Track Foreign Policy: Oppose IMF, World Bank, and WTO Free Trade & Immigration: WTO is an instrument of oppression |
| Opposes Link Human Rights to trade with China | China: No China in WTO; but don’t link human rights to trade China: Treat China and others with “radical humanism” |
| Strongly Opposes More Spending on Armed Forces Personnel | Foreign Policy: East Timor: force Indonesia to control their militias Defense: Cut Pentagon budget by 50% Defense: Take aim at the sacred cow of the military budget Kosovo: Stop bombing Yugoslavia; it breaches UN Charter |
| Opposes Reduce spending on Missile Defense ("Star Wars") | Defense: End nuclear testing; strive for zero nuclear weapons |
| Supports Continue Foreign Aid to Russia, Israel, & others | Foreign Policy: Eliminate most foreign aid; it’s only for disasters Foreign Policy: Create non-US-based international peackkeepers |
| Strongly Supports Spend Resources to Stop Global Warming | Environment: Rebuild rail network & move away from fossil fuels |
| Strongly Opposes Drug use is immoral: enforce laws against it | Drugs: War on drugs is a failure; decriminalize Drugs: Decriminalization instead of prisons |
| No opinion Allow churches to provide welfare services | Welfare & Labor: Housing, food, & health benefits for welfare recipients |