Here are your answers compared to this voter’s answers.
Social › Abortion
4>4 Personal answerProchoice, but should not be used in cases where it is just a form of birth control. |
Social › Gay Marriage
4>4 Personal answerYes, but allow churches the right to refuse same-sex ceremonies |
the Economy › Equal Pay
4>4 Personal answerI believe in equal pay for equal work, but I am reluctant to let the government start telling people how much to pay their employees. |
Domestic Policy › Gun Control
4>4 Personal answerMostly, I think proper enforcement of current laws should be sufficient. I do think anyone buying large numbers of weapons in a short time should have to provide documentation of a legal reason for doing so. |
Immigration › Muslim Immigrant Ban
4>4 Personal answerBanning people based on their religion is probably unconstitutional. It is certainly distasteful. On a practical level, how do you do it? Do we assume they will tell the truth when we ask them what their religion is? Do we base it on where they come from, or what they look like? I have met Moslems with blue eyes, blonde hair, and British accents. The only way to be sure is to close the border completely. |
Social › Planned Parenthood Funding
4>4 Personal answerYes, their services reach far beyond abortions and can save many lives through cancer screening, prenatal services, and adoption referrals |
the Economy › Minimum Wage
4>4 Personal answerYes, and adjust it every year according to inflation |
the Environment › Climate Change
4>4 Personal answerTax carbon emissions and provide incentives for alternative energy production |
the Economy › Paid Sick Leave
4>4 Personal answerNo |
Domestic Policy › Drug Policy
4>4 Personal answerOther drugs should be treated the way alcohol is. As long as an individual's use isn't placing others at risk - driving while intoxicated, etc. - it shouldn't be illegal for adults. |
Domestic Policy › Term Limits
4>4 Personal answerNo, but all districts should be established by carefully monitored independent boards established for the purpose. |
Foreign Policy › Mandatory Military Service
4>4 Personal answerNo |
Domestic Policy › Muslim Surveillance
4>4 Personal answerBroadly targeting Muslims would have the effect of alienating them, thus making radicalization more likely. It is also bigoted, and perhaps unconstitutional. It might also interfere with the ability of law enforcement to watch for non-Muslims planning terrorist actions. Carefully targeted surveillance would be better. |
Education › Student Loans
4>4 Personal answerI agree that the borrowers agreed to pay the current interest rates. I also don't think taxing rich people to lower the interest rate would harm the economy much if at all since low income borrowers would be very likely to spend most of the increase in their available funds. Not sure rich people would see it that way |
Immigration › Immigration
4>4 Personal answerYes, if they were born here |
Healthcare › Marijuana
4>4 Personal answerAs I stated above, I think all drugs should be treated the way alcohol is. |
Domestic Policy › No-Fly List Gun Control
4>4 Personal answerNot necessarily. Should be handled on an individual case by case basis. |
Domestic Policy › NSA Domestic Surveillance
4>4 Personal answerNo, only with a warrant showing probable cause of criminal activity |
Domestic Policy › Gerrymandering
4>4 Personal answerYes |
Immigration › Illegal Immigrant Detainment
4>4 Personal answerNo |
Healthcare › Medicaid
4>4 Personal answer...22 have expanded their coverage and more than 35 have opted not to do so. Where did those extra states come from? Medicaid is not perfect, but overall, helping people get treatment for illnesses before they become a crisis requiring admission to a hospital is more cost effective. Since, as I discussed above, healthcare is now a societal responsibility we should be looking for the most efficient, effective way to provide it. |
Immigration › Border Security
4>4 Personal answerNo, just enforce the current border policy |
Immigration › Immigration Healthcare
4>4 Personal answerWhen they show up at the emergency room, the hospital is required by law to provide care. Should the hospital then have to absorb the cost of that care, which is publicly mandated? If so, it then gets spread out over all the patients who either pay themselves or have insurance. Insurance rates go up for those who have it. We all pay for it one way or another. If we give them access to some form of government-subsidized health insurance, again, we all pay. However, in that case, they might make some contribution of their own to the cost of the insurance. They might also get some level of preventive care, which might keep them out of the emergency room, and thus lower the costs for everyone. I understand the philosophical arguments against providing the subsidy, and in a lot of ways I agree with them, but I think it might be cheaper in the long run to just insure them. |
the Environment › Alternative Energy
4>4 Personal answerAs long as other governments are subsidizing their own sustainable technologies, ours should also. |
Immigration › Immigrant Laborers
4>4 Personal answerYes, if they are working, paying taxes, and obeying the law. |
Elections › Voter Fraud
4>4 Personal answerI don't think voter fraud is much of a problem, but I don't have any problem with requiring a photo ID to vote, as long as it is provided free of charge to anyone who can't afford to pay. |
Domestic Policy › Patriot Act
4>4 Personal answerIndefinite detention without trial, warrantless intrusions into privacy, killing of U.S citizens without trial seem to me clearly unconstitutional. |
the Economy › Government Spending
4>4 Personal answerThe government needs to be able to deficit spend during times of economic crisis, but should not be chronically in deficit. An improving economy will increase government income, which should lead to a balanced budget if the line is held on spending. |
Foreign Policy › Israel
4>4 Personal answerSince most of it comes back here, you could argue that this is just a subsidy to our own military hardware manufacturers. Outside if Israel, it hasn't made us many friends in that part of the world, and sometimes the Israelis don't seem to like us much either. All the same, I'm kind of reluctant to just throw them to the wolves. Additionally, if we cut them off, and this weakens them enough for their neighbors to successfully invade, they would most likely use their nuclear arsenal as a last resort, which would open a door that would be better left closed. |
Immigration › Immigrant Assimilation
4>4 Personal answerNo, bt there should be no mandate for government services to be multilingual |
Domestic Policy › Net Neutrality
4>4 Personal answerNo, treat all traffic equally and continue the openness of the internet |
Domestic Policy › Gun Liability
4>4 Personal answerNo, manufacturers and dealers should only be held liable for negligence |
Crime › Solitary Confinement for Juveniles
4>4 Personal answerNo, but it should be tightly restricted and carefully monitored. |
Immigration › Skilled Immigrants
4>4 Personal answerThey could be increased, but there should be severe penalties for companies that use these types of visa to export jobs. There have been numerous cases where the "skill" the foreign workers bring is the ability to be taught how to perform the work of existing American workers so they can do the job at a new facility in their own country. Frequently, the American workers have to train the people who are taking their jobs. In addition to penalties for the companies, the executives responsible for this should face penalties as well. If they sign a document stating that these visas are going to people with special skills, and they know it isn't true, that's fraud. |
Domestic Policy › Affirmative Action
4>4 Personal answerOnly in the form of additional help to meet existing standards for admission, hiring, promotion, etc. If existing standards are based on relevant criteria for the position, they should not be altered simply because they have a racially (or gender based, etc.) outcome. I agree that some groups are disadvantaged by their backgrounds. I just think they should be helped to meet standards instead of being given lesser ones. |
the Economy › Labor Unions
4>4 Personal answerPrimarily help, but can be abused. A single employee has little or no leverage when negotiating with a large employer, public or private. |
the Economy › Capital Gains Tax
4>4 Personal answerWhile I am not sure what the effects on the economy would be, it seems to me that income is income. If it is taxed, it should be treated the same regardless of source. |
Education › Common Core
4>4 Personal answerYes, I support the concept but not the current implementation |
the Environment › Oil Drilling
4>4 Personal answerOnly with increased oversight as the petroleum industry has demonstrated its inability to operate responsibly. The decisions that led to the BP spill should have led to criminal prosecutions of the individuals responsible, not just financial consequences for the companies involved. |
Immigration › In-State Tuition
4>4 Personal answerYes, as long as they pay taxes |
Foreign Policy › United Nations
4>4 Personal answerYes |
Healthcare › Obamacare
4>4 Personal answerThe law for decades has been that anyone coming to an emergency room is entitled to appropriate care regardless of their ability to pay. Unless we are willing to go back to the times when people got turned away from hospitals and died of easily treatable conditions because they couldn't pay for treatment, we have already made the decision that society as a whole is responsible for everyone's health care. All we have to work out is how we are going to pay for it. The system prior to "Obamacare" was grotesquely inefficient in terms of how much it cost and how many people did not get appropriate care. I think Obamacare is clumsy and overly complicated, but it may be the best that was politically feasible. It can be improved, or perhaps replaced with something better, but only after a long enough trial to make it possible to identify what needs to be changed, and how. |
the Environment › Fracking
4>4 Personal answeryes with increased oversight and increased incentives for more sustainable resources. |
Domestic Policy › Eminent Domain
4>4 Personal answerYes but only under extremely limited circumstances, which would definitely not include destroying viable communities so they can be replaced with something that will generate more tax income. |
Foreign Policy › Torture
4>4 Personal answerNot unless we think it's fair for someone else to treat our soldiers or private citizens that way. I also don't think it's very effective. |
Foreign Policy › North Korea Military Strikes
4>4 Personal answerWhile letting the Chinese handle this might not get us the results we would like, using military force would certainly be a diplomatic disaster, and could even lead us into a wider war. Unless the North Koreans actually attack us, we have to limit ourselves to diplomacy. |
Foreign Policy › Foreign Aid
4>4 Personal answerI think we can certainly afford to spend that much on foreign aid. I think we should take a close look at redirecting some of it. We also need to be a lot more careful about what gets done with it. I suspect a lot of it winds up in somebody's secret offshore account. |
Foreign Policy › ISIS Ground Troops
4>4 Personal answerDefeating ISIS is probably necessary for long term global security, and can't be accomplished without troops on the ground. It's not so clear that they need to be our troops, at least not in any large combat role. |
Foreign Policy › Drones
4>4 Personal answerThey have a role, and that includes using them as weapons, but I think we need to be more careful to try to avoid harming noncombatants. |
Domestic Policy › Social Security
4>4 Personal answerIf the point is to keep the program solvent, raising the cap on taxable earnings gets you there. |
Foreign Policy › Terrorism
4>4 Personal answerThey are entitled to a fair trial. If they are arrested in this country, they should be tried in our courts. We should not be treating any of our prisoners differently from how we would want others to treat our citizens, regardless of how others are actually treating our citizens. |
Foreign Policy › War on ISIS
4>4 Personal answerNo, we should not legitimize ISIS as a sovereign entity |
Science › Space Exploration
4>4 Personal answerHistorically, money spent on all types of scientific research has generally turned out to be a very good investment. In addition, the technology developed to carry out this research is valuable in and of itself. While I am very pleased to see the current efforts of private enterprise in this area, I think government still has a very valid role to play. |
Foreign Policy › NSA Surveillance
4>4 Personal answerI would be surprised if they weren't doing the same to us. |
the Economy › Federal Reserve
4>4 Personal answerWe need to know what the Federal reserve is doing, but the current dysfunction of Congress shows that putting them in control would be foolish. |
Foreign Policy › Cuba
4>4 Personal answerWe've only tried our previous approach for a bit over 50 years. Maybe we just need to give it a bit longer. On the other hand, we seem to be doing a lot of business with China, Russia, and a lot of other countries whose politics we don't like much, so maybe we can do business with a country that's less than 100 miles off our coast. |
the Economy › Farm Subsidies
4>4 Personal answerI'm not sure about small family farms, but subsidizing large corporate farms is a bad idea. |
Foreign Policy › Russian Airstrikes in Syria
4>4 Personal answerHow would we do that, short of shooting down their aircraft? We can try to discourage them diplomatically, but unless we are actually prepared to commit an act of war against them, that's all we can do. |
the Economy › Property Taxes
4>4 Personal answerNo. This would shift the tax burden toward poorer people, who are less likely to own property, and more likely to need to spend everything they earn. Raising a tax on sales of "luxury" goods might avoid this, but then you have to define "luxury". |
the Economy › Pension Reform
4>4 Personal answerAnyone currently vested in a pension should get it. That is the arrangement both sides already agreed to, and changing it after the fact is unfair. Transitioning to privately managed accounts would probably make retirees less financially secure, and would likely provide a big boost to the financial management industry. It does transfer more responsibility to the employees for their future financial security, and eliminates the incentive for managers public and private to make promises that have to be paid for by somebody else later. |
the Economy › Bitcoin
4>4 Personal answerHowever it is considered by the government, it is being used as currency. The anonymity makes it a higher risk for use in criminal activities, but recognizing it as legal currency won't change that. |
the Economy › Trans-Pacific Partnership
4>4 Personal answerYes. many of the other countries involved have much higher barriers to trade than we do, and they are required under the agreement to lower them. Additionally, abandoning the agreement opens the door for China to form its own agreement with these countries, thus increasing their influence. |
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You side slightly towards “security”, meaning you more often believe the government should do everything within its power to ensure the security of its citizens. This theme is most important to you.
You are a centrist on left wing and right wing issues. This theme is more important to you.
You are a centrist on authoritarian and libertarian issues. This theme is more important to you.
You are a centrist on democratic socialism and capitalism issues. This theme is more important to you.
You side slightly towards “nationalism”, meaning you more often support policies that prioritize the interests of our nation above others. This theme is more important to you.
You are a centrist on politically incorrect and politically correct issues. This theme is more important to you.
You are a centrist on unilateralism and multilateralism issues. This theme is more important to you.
You side slightly towards “religious”, meaning you more often support policies that reflect religious values and principles. This theme is more important to you.
You side moderately towards “protectionism”, meaning you believe globalization is detrimental to the safety, compensation, environment, and standard of living of workers. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You side slightly towards “deregulation”, meaning you more often believe that government regulation stifles innovation and economic prosperity. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You are a centrist on assimilation and multiculturalism issues. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You are a centrist on pacifism and militarism issues. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You are a centrist on traditional and progressive issues. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You are a centrist on isolationism and imperialism issues. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You are a centrist on individualism and collectivism issues. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You side slightly towards “decentralization”, meaning you more often believe that administrative power and decision making should be handled at the local level and serve the best interests of the local community. This theme is only less important to you.
You are a centrist on tender and tough issues. This theme is only less important to you.
You are a centrist on small government and big government issues. This theme is only less important to you.
You are a centrist on keynesian and laissez-faire issues. This theme is only less important to you.
You are a centrist on anthropocentrism and environmentalism issues. This theme is only less important to you.
You are a centrist on meritocracy and democracy issues. This theme is only less important to you.
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