Vanessa Hoffman's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Vanessa Hoffman has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2022 Political Courage Test.
Maryland Congressional Election 2022 Political Courage Test
| Pro-life | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| I completely support all pro-life legislation. "Article 2 of the Human Rights Act protects the right to life. 1.) No person)s)/Government can try to end a human life, 2.) Government should take appropriate measures to protect all people's lives via laws/preventative measures, 3.) Public authorities need to dangers to human life expectancy that their legislative actions may create, 4.) deaths that involve the state/suspicious deaths warrant/require right to investigation, 5.) the right to life does not include a right to die. Real science proves fetus are 100% human, feel pain at 20 weeks (4.5 months), feel pain at 22 weeks. | |||
| 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? | ||
| We need to lower taxes/regulations, stop the federal reserve from printing money/driving up inflation, and remove/fire/impeached intentionally bad government policies/management. Retirement is unaffordable because the US government keeps grifting the US population out of their hard-earned savings/retirement through planned inflation/intentionally super low interest rates designed to keep people poor (not saving money)/on welfare, and keep Social Security/Entitlement funds from building value through decent interest rates (no more SS benefits). When the US government spends money pretending to help people it increases the US debt/lowers the buying power of each US dollar/drains Social Security funds/artificially increases costs of needed/wanted goods/services. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| Absolutely yes. Their "usefulness" can create a corruption risk. All indirect and direct assistance needs to be considered as having value. Every kind of donation should be considered as having the ability to manipulate the votes. All donors/donations should be kept within the bounds of the law. George Soros/others with millions/billions of dollars to funnel through direct/indirect donor shells to sway election results need to be monitored/kept on a tight leash since their money has the power to take the vote away from "We the People" permanently through loopholes and improper/unenforced regulations. Transparency is key to free/fair elections. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct? | ||
| Government officials, so long as they are staying within the bounds of their job and are not violating the law, should be protected from lawsuits/harassment due to the nature of their job, and the common desire of those who oppose their actions to punish officials into compliance with the opposition?s agenda. Laws must be designed/upheld to protect government officials from harassment/threats of violence; they are necessary for government to function optimally uncoerced/uncompromised by opposition forces. When these laws are broken, and government officials are made puppets, tyranny, government corruption, and the collapse of civilized civilization have historically proven to follow. | |||
| Yes | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| It is one of the only things the federal governement is suppose to spend tax revenue on.The federal government is not designed to pay people's bills, but to keep citizens and their rights protected/laws made/upheld. Its sole pupose is to maintain law/order and keep the nation free/safe from internal/external threats to life, liberty, and the pursuits of happiness. WWIII/nuclear war looms near, China is our mortal enemy who for the last 30 years has bought off our public officials/media/entertainment to supplant our Democratic Consitutional Repubic with Socialism/Communism so to usher in their total world domination/mass population mind/body control forever. | |||
| 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? | ||
| No | Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19? | ||
| The federal government needs to stop taxing people/businesses/corporations that need emergency aid, and instead raise/keep interests rates high so to incentivize people saving rather than spending money. It would be better to stop taxing struggling businesses/the truly poor if the government merely returns their taxes back to them, but drastically increases inflation simultaneously every time. This version of [unrestricted ?welfare warfare?] on the US people by the US people, is designed to keep the USA dependent/cowardly rather than brave/free. Collapsing US dollar would help China/Russia/Iran/North Korea bypass US sanctions/destroy the US's strong policing influence on global trade. | |||
| No | Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards? | ||
| By law people are required to get an education till the age of 16, and that education should be geared towards the needs/wants of the individual, their skill/talent sets, and future of our global economy. Due to big government?s over-reaching/ineffectual tendencies it is best to leave the kinds of education needed for each child in the hands of their parents and their local government. A parent should be able to educate their children when, where, and how they want, to best suit their child, without propaganda pushing federal government mandates/regulations impeding/forcing their agenda via bad/corrupt/compromised government schools/colleges/Universities/Institutions upon the masses. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Proper regulations, based upon UNBIASED real science, used to study/improve/preserve/conserve the environment/air quality to prevent negative health effects from harming life on earth are necessary. However, though proper regulations should be consistently implemented, regulations should never come at the cost of permitting rather than preventing one or more preventable catastrophes. Regulations must NEVER cause/aid in the foreseeable creation/execution of war, famine, the destruction of the US dollar/global economies, and/or fund/supply terrorists/the mortal enemies of the US/The Free World so they gain rather that lose power. We are on the cusp of WWIII, due to government over regulation and bad policies. | |||
| No | Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| To take way the ability for law abiding people to defend themselves/others is the opposite of protecting the wellbeing of people from those who use guns to hurt the innocent. To really prevent gun violence, you SEVERELY punish those who break the law without exception, change the penal system to stop the racism/hate/crime that it only encourages, and you train/aid people to defend themselves. Children are being murdered in cars while eating dinner not because there are legal guns, but because there are gangs who require new members to commit murder to join, and people like George Gascon let them. | |||
| Yes | Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")? | ||
| No | Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19? | ||
| Employers should not be required to provide PAID multi-week medical leave due to the financial burden it would pose on small startup companies who need to be able to grow while taking on necessary debt. Companies like Amazon can afford to pay people to stay home, in quarantine repeatedly for weeks, but most small businesses cannot pay people to stay home/not work. This policy, like most welfare, can incentivize people to become sick intentionally so they can take advantage of this benefit. It should be left up to each company, but it should never be mandatory for anyone ever. | |||
| 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? | ||
| We need to return the massive influx of illegal immigrants back to their countries of origin. These people were bated/aided to come into this nation by compromised democrats/global NGO?s, puppets of USA enemies, who plan to keep the extreme, socialist, leftist, democrat, Anti-USA party permanently in power by any means possible, including using these people to change the outcome of the next election by having them illegally casting votes, It is illegal, it is immoral, and it must stop. National security/integrity of our elections, immigration system, and overall body of laws/ways of life of this nation are at stake. | |||
| Yes | 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)? | ||
| No | Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts? | ||
| The US should protect Israel/other Middle Eastern Nations with the help of allies in the region/around the world. To keep Iran/Iranian allies from attaining/using nuclear weapons/intercontinental ballistic missiles/weapons of mass destruction via sanctions/strategic warfare, because they intend to destroy/supplant all western/Judeo-Christian civilizations, is paramount. We must stop trying to negotiate/compromise with terrorists. They want only the removal/death of all Jews/USA citizen, and total global conversion to Radical Islam. They follow a hive mindset. To keep the world safe is to, in every way possible, prevent them from attaining weapons of mass destruction via primary/secondary sanctions/strategic warfare to destroy their influence/power. | |||
| No | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| I support placing international trade barriers on those who fail to comply with the existing international trade rules/regulations. Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and their allies must be banned from global trading due to their illegal/corrupt business practices, and their agenda of global domination via unrestricted warfare that uses trade to spread disease, drugs, and death to all they wish to supplant. If the world stops buying the goods and services provided by slave labor coming from these nations, and returns to their previous self-sufficient manufacturing practices, all aspects of all life in every USA friendly nation will improve exponentially. | |||
| Lowering taxes/regulations to lower inflation, increase people's savings, incentivize job creation/new business development, and shrink the overreaching government by only funding institutions designed to protect/serve US citizens in ways that [prevent: war, the supplantation of our democratic constitutional republic with socialism, government tyrannical overreach, the brainwashing of our US citizens by soviet style misinformation campaigns/propaganda, stop the illegal intentional democrat sanctioned invasion of illegal immigrants into our nation, stop the illegal changing of voter laws that would allow non-citizens to vote, mandate that each member of each government branch perform properly his/her job(s) or be removed/impeached without chance of rehire. |
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