| VoteMatch Responses
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| VoteMatch Question & Answer (Click on question for explanation and background) |
Based on these stances: (Click on topic for excerpt & citation) |
| Strongly Supports Abortion is a woman's right | Abortion: Keep safe & legal abortion Abortion: Cover abortion under national health care system |
| Strongly Supports Require companies to hire more women & minorities | Civil Rights: Require affirmative action |
| Strongly Supports Sexual orientation protected by civil rights laws | Civil Rights: Equality by sexual orientation, including gay marriage |
| Opposes Organized Prayer In Public Schools | Families & Children: Support personal responsibility; teach dispute resolution |
| Strongly Supports More Federal Funding for Health Coverage | Health Care: Health care is a human right Health Care: Nationalize health care & ensure universal coverage |
| Strongly Opposes Privatize Social Security | Social Security: Don’t privatize Social Security |
| Strongly Opposes Parents Choose Schools via Vouchers | School Choice: Support choice within public schools |
| Strongly Opposes Death Penalty | Crime: Opposes death penalty |
| Strongly Opposes Mandatory "Three Strikes" Sentencing Laws | Crime: Focus on crime prevention instead of harsher sentences |
| Strongly Opposes Absolute right to gun ownership | Gun Control: Support Brady Bill & thoughtful gun control |
| Strongly Opposes Make Income Tax Flatter & Lower | Environment: Tax industrial pollution Tax Reform: Tax incentives to redistribute unbalanced wealth Tax Reform: Reform system to provide tax justice Tax Reform: Support progressivity; no flat tax |
| Supports Immigration helps our economy-encourage it | Immigration: Don’t blame immigrants for social and economic problems |
| Strongly Opposes Support & Expand Free Trade | Free Trade: Reject NAFTA, GATT, & WTO |
| Strongly Supports Link Human Rights to trade with China | China: Support human rights as cornerstone of US foreign policy |
| Strongly Opposes More Spending on Armed Forces Personnel | Defense: Cut defense budget by 50% |
| Supports Reduce spending on Missile Defense ("Star Wars") | Defense: SDI doesn't work; money better spent elsewhere Defense: Abolish nuclear weapons |
| Strongly Supports Continue Foreign Aid to Russia, Israel, & others | Foreign Policy: Support social and economic justice across the globe Foreign Policy: Assist Russia & Israel in moving towards better governments |
| Strongly Supports Spend Resources to Stop Global Warming | Environment: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions now; more later |
| Strongly Opposes Drug use is immoral: enforce laws against it | Drugs: More drug counseling & treatment Drugs: Replace Drug War with treatment and alternative sentencing |
| Strongly Opposes Allow churches to provide welfare services | Labor & Farming: Support a Living Wage Welfare & Poverty: Negative income tax to keep all adults above poverty line Welfare & Poverty: Workfare is slave labor Welfare & Poverty: Restore federally funded welfare entitlement program |