Dale Mensing's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Dale Mensing has failed to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2020 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.
Issue Positions
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- "I am proud to support President Trump because [â¦] He defends the rights of the unborn." (votesmart.org)
- "I am proud to support President Trump because [â¦] 4. His leadership shows his ability to re-energize our nation's economy." (votesmart.org)
- "I will continue to work toward a federal flat income tax that will make education funds available to home schooling, private schooling and local school districts." (votesmart.org)
- "The Federal Reserve is a cartel. People often ask me questions about various economic issues -- and what I would do to resolve them. My usual answer is that these various economic problems are really just symptoms of a disease. Rather than place our attention on masking or temporarily forestalling a symptom, we should eliminate the disease. The disease is the fact that Federal Reserve, a private organization, sets our economy's interest rates, implements fractional reserve lending and monetizes debt." (votesmart.org)
- "The government overtaxes us and fails to provide for the vital investment in our childrens' futures." (www.theflamingarrow.com)
- "In regard to Social Security, I feel the need to cite my very first campaign flier which said, "Entitlement Reform=Entitlement Honesty." Among many other things, honesty means not avoiding and not hiding truth. We must make it clear to our citizens that Social Security as it is presently designed and administered will not continue to be solvent. Many people's expectations will not be met. There are too many older people and too few younger people. I have advocated "Personal Medical Accounts" as a potential primary feature of a new replacement health system. I also advocate "Personal Retirement Accounts" as a primary feature of a new social security system. Oversight of the future Social Security system should be given to the States. The Federal Government has clearly demonstrated its gross ineptitude in all matters requiring financial solvency." (www.facebook.com)
- "Of course, we need to guarantee entitlements already provided in MediCare. We should consider providing different approaches for different types of people: Something akin to a health savings account for those who could best benefit from that approach. We need plans that encourage rather than discourage doctors to serve in rural and remote communities. Also, finding a way to evolve away from absolute Federal oversight of health care would certainly be in the best interest of the patient." (votesmart.org)
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- "I am proud to support President Trump because [â¦] 4. His leadership shows his ability to re-energize our nation's economy." (votesmart.org)
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- "As your Congressman I will fight to kill Common Core." (www.theflamingarrow.com)
- "Common Core standards and tactics are an effort to eliminate the American spirit of courageous individuality, free thinking and vibrant self-determination. Our schools need to teach with the purpose of helping students understand and achieve their inherent roll in the working out of Liberty." (www.theflamingarrow.com)
- "Common Core standards and tactics are an effort to eliminate the American spirit of courageous individuality, free thinking, and vibrant self-determination. Our schools need to teach with the purpose of helping students understand and achieve their roll in the working out of Liberty. " (www.theflamingarrow.com)
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- "As your Congressman, I will continue to fight for your right to keep and bear arms. Now, in many ways the pen is mightier than the sword. So, I strongly encourage you to use your pen in writing letters to your legislators and your local newspapers-- as you join the battle for freedom. The time has come." (votesmart.org)
- "Let me tell you, even if you never own or even want to own a gun, it is vital, it is indispensable to you, whether or not you ever do actually own a gun, that you are truly able to exercise your right to keep and bear arms. Your right to keep and bear arms represents the fact that the government works for you, not you for the government." (www.theflamingarrow.com)
- "As your Congressman, I will work to achieve a constitutional answer to our health care troubles. To begin with, we need to put the patient first. This means that the ACA needs to be revoked. We must be aware that a primary author of the ACA, Robert Creamer, is a radical communist criminal who espouses systems of deceit to gain public acceptance of the law. " (www.theflamingarrow.com)
- "The antidote to the Affordable Care Act is an evolution. In deference to the Bill of Rights, federal oversight and taxing for health care must completely give way to State and local oversight. The States, local governments and private organizations would then have the money to doctor and nurse if they were not being robbed by the absurdly expensive bureaucracy of the federal system." (votesmart.org)
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- "I agree with Caesar Chavez' opposition to the open border and I agree with his opposition to the hiring of illegals. There has to be a limit. The limit needs to go into effect now. First, make the borders firm. Then, the entries can be made legal." (votesmart.org)
- "I am proud to support President Trump because [â¦] 3. He knows that a strong nation has strong borders." (votesmart.org)
- "Stand Up Straight! advanced the notion that the Democratic Party could win a permanent majority in Congress by doing the following: passing a national health care bill, thereby turning more people into wards of an ever-expanding government, and of the party that works to grow government; and giving amnesty to all illegal immigrants, thereby creating, virtually overnight, a large new constituency of Democratic voters." (www.theflamingarrow.com)
- "Those who have entered illegally must accept the fairness of waiting their turn. Felons must be returned to their native country." (votesmart.org)
- Despite exhaustive research, Vote Smart was unable to find information about this candidate's position.
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