Art Jones' Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Art Jones has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2020 Political Courage Test.
Illinois Congressional Election 2020 Political Courage Test
| Pro-life | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| Medically indicated removal of a non-viable fetus may be permitted (indirect abortion),but not by first degree murder (abortion). | |||
| 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 are benefits that should go only to American citizens. Yet we have so-called Social Security Totalization Agreements with dozens of countries that allow these benefits to go to non-citizens based on their claims of having performed work in their home countries. They get credit for this claimed work and are awarded Social Security benefits after only 18 months,whereas American citizens have to have worked at least 10 years before they can claim any benefits! And in 1980,Congress passed a special bill for "Holocaust Survivors" who were allowed to use forged documents -250,000 were allowed that privilege. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| I support public funding of all election campaigns. Every candidate,regardless of his political affiliation should receive exactly the same amount of campaign funds from the Federal Election Commission,once those candidates are on the ballot. A $10 tax write-off by every taxpayer to the Federal Elections Commission (120-140 million taxpayers) would be more than enough to fairly finance every federal candidate's campaign, for the House,Senate or the Presidency. This is the only way to remove the influence of all special interests in our campaigns-be they unions,corporations or super-rich individuals who want to buy and have bought politicians. | |||
| No | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| I am a Vietnam combat veteran and I know and have survived the horrors of modern warfare. So I'm no pacifist. However, it is a fact that the U.S. defense budget is greater than that of Russia,China, and all our NATO Allies combined. And despite that, we are bogged down in the Middle East fighting one needless and endless war after another. And for what and against who? These wars are for the security of Israel - not our country. And everyone from President Trump on down in Washington,D.C. knows that,but no one has the guts to end these wars. | |||
| Yes | Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| Yes | Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth? | ||
| We have wasted according to President Trump,$8 trillion dollars fighting another nation's enemies. Meanwhile, our roads,bridges, streets, sewer systems,schools and airports -in a word the infrastructure of our country is falling apart. To put all these items into proper repair, will cost the kind of money we have foolishly wasted in the Middle East. My campaign slogan says it all: WE NEED MORE JOBS,NOT MORE WARS! | |||
| No | Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards? | ||
| American education is a disgrace. Students graduating from our high schools are basically political and historical illiterates. Most have very little understanding of how our country was founded; what type of government we have; or why the American system of Free enter- prise or Capitalism if you prefer,is far superior to Socialism/Communism,the latest crusade of the Democratic Party. An entire generation has enslaved themselves through costly student loans to pay for an education top heavy with anti-American,anti-Christian,anti-White, Marxist clap trap. And it begins when local schools accept federal standards to get federal funding for their schools or colleges and universities. | |||
| No | Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)? | ||
| No | Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? | ||
| This is just a massive con job to take over the energy industry. One active volcano emits more pollution into the air than anything produced by any factory or a herd of cows. Just about anything the bureaucrats in these federal agencies "regulate" ends up being a financial disaster for the taxpayers of this country. | |||
| No | Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| I support the 2nd Amendment 100%. We don't have a gun control problem,but a crime control problem brought on by groups of Radical Leftists like the ACLU and by the absurd decisions of jellow-brained judges who have turned loose thousands of hard-core criminals and illegal aliens to prey upon the public. I support the concealed carry law passed here in Illinois as the only way that the law-abiding citizens here and in other states with concealed carry laws, can defend themselves against these hordes of criminal predators in our country. | |||
| Yes | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")? | ||
| Obama Care is largely a failure. I have been an insurance broker for some of America's best known insurance companies - Mutual of Omaha; Blue Cross/Blue Shield; Pioneer Insurance; and many others. For over 30 years that was my professional career in Illinois. And in my opinion,Obama Care was designed to fail. It's purpose was to give the Federal government an excuse to strip away the private and employer-supplied insurance plans of millions of Americans and replace those plans with one Government Plan for all Americans. And if the government controls your health care,it will control you. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border? | ||
| Yes | Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? | ||
| According to the Department of Immigration,Control and Enforcement (ICE) ,in 2018 illegal aliens were coming from over 70 foreign countries. Now,in 2020, they report aliens from 141 countries have crossed our southern border,despite what the crusading pink rabbits of the press have falsely been reporting. We must build the wall, deport or jail criminal aliens. And the U.S. Attorney General,William Barr, should arrest and prosecute any public official who declares their state,city, or county to be a sanctuary for illegal aliens,regardless of political party affiliation. That will end the "sanctuary city" nonsense once and for all. | |||
| 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? | ||
| We are just asking for trouble when we engage in these attacks on other nations. They are really no threat to the U.S.,but they are a suspected threat to that paranoid nation of war-mongers known as Israel. The undue influence of the Israeli Lobby in Washington on our congress and especially on President Trump is why we are still bogged down in the Middle East and why we may yet begin a war with Iran, a nation 2 1/2 times as large as Texas. And a war with Iran and its allies Russia,China, and North Korea, could go nuclear. | |||
| No | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| I believe in free trade as long as it is fair trade. When nations cheat,such as China, they must be punished via tariffs and quotas. | |||
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