Larry Donahue's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Larry Donahue refused to tell citizens where he stands on any of the issues addressed in the 2012 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart, national media, and prominent political leaders.
Issue Positions
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- Larry Donahue. Platform Notes/Views: A Balanced Budget and Deficit Reduction. 12 June 2012. "Our economy and the fiscal security of the nation and of its citizens cannot be sustained unless we end the irresponsible and unconscionable practice of spending money we do not have because congress is to incompetent to manage the finances of this country." (sites.google.com)
- Larry Donahue. Issue Position: Taxes and the Economy (in Brief). "Mistrust of our elected officials and the economic uncertainty created by our misguided and incomprehensible system of taxation has taken us to the brink of economic catastrophe. We must bring equity and accountability back to our tax system. Our primary focus has to be on balancing the budget and the retirement of the national debt. Unless we do this all else will become meaningless because our economy will become unsustainable and we will not have the resources to pay for even the most basic needs of our citizens." (votesmart.org)
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- Larry Donahue. Issue Position: Health Care/National Health Care Policy. 7 February 2010. "What may have sounded like a proposal worth considering during the campaign season has turned into a 'lets not step on the toes of our big PAC and corporate donors legislation'. I am convinced that if congress wrote "Health Care Reform Bill" on the cover of a repair manual for a Yugo the president would have signed it. That's how desperate congress and the president were to pass something. This behemoth bill, consisting of over 2,000 pages, is one of the most incomprehensible, complicated, voluminous and unworkable pieces of legislation ever written by congress." (votesmart.org)
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