Chris Magiera's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Chris Magiera has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2020 Political Courage Test.
Indiana Congressional Election 2020 Political Courage Test
| Pro-life | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| Abortion is immoral and unconstitutional. Life is a God-given inalienable right, that cannot be infringed without due process. Life begins at conception and ends at natural death. Abortion has the primary intent of killing a baby. A fetal-maternal separation operation has the primary goal of saving both lives. There is a difference. Medical technology will improve to make this procedure ever more successful at preserving the life of the baby. Abortion is never to be allowed. | |||
| No | In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? | ||
| No | Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare? | ||
| Social Security and Medicare are unconstitutional programs. According to the 10th Amendment, they should be transitioned to the States. Any reform of the debt must address these mandated programs, as that is where the increased spending originates. I refer the interested reader to a September 2019 Manhattan Institute report by Brian Riedl, "A Comprehensive Federal Budget Plan to Avert A Debt Crisis." It is non-partisan. | |||
| No | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| The Federal Election Commission is unconstitutional. | |||
| Yes | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| When considering any legislation, it is the duty of any member of Congress to ask the following three questions, in this specific order: Is it Constitutional? Can we afford it? Do we need it? The Constitution does authorize specific military spending. The "yes" or "no" answer choices are inappropriate. The military budget must be scrutinized like any other budget. We are 24 trillion dollars in debt. We spend more on military than the next seven countries combined. Do we need that? Is some of it misdirected? I answered "yes" because needs may change over time. | |||
| No | 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? | ||
| The 16th and 17th Amendments should be repealed, and the Fed should be audited and eventually eliminated. We must return to a sound, commodity based monetary system. That single act would benefit the long and short term economy. | |||
| No | Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards? | ||
| There is no enumerated power of the Congress in Article 1, Section 8 to regulate education. By the 10th Amendment, that is a State power. The Department of Education must be eliminated. | |||
| 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? | ||
| There is no enumerated power in Article 1, Section 8 for the Congress to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The EPA should be eliminated. By the 10th Amendment, this is a power reserved to the States. States may form interstate Compacts as per Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3. | |||
| No | Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| Our God-given, natural rights include Life, Liberty, Property, and the right to defend those rights to the best of our abilities. These are inalienable rights. The right of self preservation is the first Law of Nature. Governments are instituted in order to secure these rights. The 2nd Amendment ends with the words "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." There are no constitutional Federal firearms acts, and those in existence should be repealed. | |||
| No | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")? | ||
| There is no enumerated power of the Congress in Article 1, Section 8 to regulate medicine, surgery or pharmaceuticals. According to the 10th Amendment, any such regulation is reserved to the States. The basic structure of our medical system should be "Cash, Catastrophic Insurance and Charity." The interested reader is referred to the website of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, AAPSOnline.org. This society advocates for constitutional medical care reform and independent, private practice medicine. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Immigration is the first step in Naturalization, and, as such is an enumerated power of Congress under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4. According to the 1758 reference work, the "Law of Nations" by Emer de Vattel, citizenship follows the parents and not the soil. Therefore, birthright citizenship should be abolished. It is the right of a sovereign entity to determine who enters the country. Our Founders used this reference work. Naturalization laws should be written with such specificity so as to eliminate waiting in-country for any decisions. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Any actions beyond the line of defense must be initiated by a Congressional Declaration of War. Since that is a constitutional power of Congress, the questions to be answered in each case would be: Can we afford it? Do we need it? That is, is any offensive action necessary to the security of our Union? Since World War II, we have become the de facto world superpower. However, empire comes with a heavy price. To paraphrase Thomas Paine: "taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but that wars are raised to carry on taxes." | |||
| No | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| The Founders used tariffs to fund the central government. Tariffs are useful means of international relations. Totally free trade is simply a move toward one-world government and destruction of national sovereignty. | |||
| If elected, I pledge to constitutionally legislate, not delegate, so that the people will not need to litigate to reclaim their God-given natural rights and liberties: Life, Liberty, Property and Self-preservation. Reforms must be made to reduce the massive unconstitutional Administrative State, by only legislating according to the original intent, understanding and meaning of the Framers' Constitution. Current issues are protecting human life, protecting our borders and protecting the right to keep and bear arms. The Constitution Solution is my platform. |
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