Ricky Barajas has failed to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2024 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests from Vote Smart and voters like you.
For Presidential and Congressional candidates who refuse to provide voters with their positions, Vote Smart has researched their public records to determine their likely responses. These issue positions are from 2024.
No | In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? | ||
Yes | Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare? | ||
Social Security and Medicare is fully funded by the people and a payroll tax. We must ensure Congress does not borrow against these programs. We must expand Social Security benefits by lifting the cap and ensuring the top 1% pay their fair share. |
Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
We need campaign reform and minimize the infleunce corporations have on Congress. |
No | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
Defense spending has increased drastically under this administration. We need to fund other social programs instead of increasing spending for defense. |
Yes | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
No | Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
Yes | Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19? | ||
First and foremost, I support providing financial relief to the Ameican people, small businesses, the disabled, and those on SSI. If we are going to provide financial aid to a corporation, they must not be able to buy back their stock, and they MUST report how they allocate their funding. They need to return it to their employees who are suffering far more than corporations directly. If they show corporate responsibility, I am in favor of financial relief for the business. |
Yes | Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards? | ||
To some extend. Every student learns at a different capacity, and we need to provide funding for after school programs that benefit the student with a learning disability. |
Yes | Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)? | ||
Yes | Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
We need to first and foremost make guarantee a Green New Deal which includes the cutting of gas emissions does no harm to those in rural communities in the coal industry. |
No | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")? | ||
Yes | Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19? | ||
If businesses and large corporations are going to ask for financial relief during a public health crisis, Yes, they must provide paid medical leave. |
No | Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border? | ||
No | Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? | ||
Only immigrants with felonies. Those who are here unlawfully, we must work together to grant them visas, leading to citizenship. Immigrants contribute to local, state and federal economies by paying into Social security and other taxes to benefits they do not qualify for. |
No | Should the United States use military force to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a weapon of mass destruction (for example: nuclear, biological, chemical)? | ||
Yes | Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts? |
Yes | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? |
My top priorities if elected to Congress will include: 1. Universal Health Care 2. Green New Deal/ Expanding to Green Energy by 2030. 3. Immigration Reform/ DACA: Granting DACA recipients permanent status and introducing legislation to address the overdue issue of Immigration Reform. On top of my priorities, I would work to pass legislation if we ever have a public health crisis, that money is ready to be allocated within days, not weeks or months. We need to pass proactive laws that first and foremost protect all Americans and small businesses. It is time we bail out America. |
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