Byron Bush's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)
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Byron Bush has provided voters with clear stances on key issues by responding to the 2020 Political Courage Test.
Tennessee Congressional Election 2020 Political Courage Test
| Pro-life | Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? | ||
| Not only do I support Pro-Life legislation, I am on record as a National GOP Platform Committee member. YES to our most innocent... YES to their protection... | |||
| Yes | 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? | ||
| These are loaded and complicated questions. Regardless of how much taxes are raised... government ALWAYS SPENDS MORE. Therefore it is not a TAX PROBLEM... but a SPENDING PROBLEM. Our elderly need to be provided for with SS and Medicare. I would support tax increases on upper income tax brackets that do not impede investment in business projects which employ hundreds/thousands of workers. I am pro-business and anti-big-government. | |||
| Yes | Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? | ||
| FOLLOW THE MONEY...! Large corporations and unions cannot have unrestricted access to funding campaigns! Unfortunately, voters fall for the Big Money, Big Spending candidates who are PACKAGED by managers to say or do whatever it takes to get elected, regardless of where they really stand on the issues. A balance must be maintained to allow candidates to get their message out, while not becoming "quid pro quo" YES-MEN or YES-WOMEN to the corporations or unions! | |||
| Yes | Do you support increasing defense spending? | ||
| YES... WHEN and WHERE NEEDED. America must remain first and foremost STRONG and READY. This is an evil world with evil forces constantly on the attack. America must remain ready to respond but discern WISELY between what is NECESSARY, not becoming subject or hostage to any force, FOREIGN or DOMESTIC... including Defense Contractors. | |||
| 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? | ||
| Yes | Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19? | ||
| YES... BUT NOT ALWAYS. Generally my answer would have been NO... but the question did not allow. Economies are not simple YES or NO entities. My YES to these questions is not a blanket YES... anymore than if I had answered NO. Complicated economies sometimes require flexible provisions. I am a strong advocate for a BALANCED BUDGET... but if war occurs, balanced or not we must win the war even if it means deficit spending. Otherwise we lose the war and another country or force controls us. | |||
| No | Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards? | ||
| Generally NO... BASICS YES...! The Federal Gov... especially in today's far-left liberal culture needs to back-off and allow the states to step-up. Get back to the BASICS of READING... WRITING (also cursive writing)... ARITHMETIC... HISTORY... and FACTS, and more FACTS accompanied by critical deductive thinking. Stop schools from indoctrinating political AGENDAS. STOP THE LIBERAL BRAIN-WASHING OF OUR CHILDREN. | |||
| 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? | ||
| A free economy with an educated but not indoctrinated populace will want to search for renewable sources of energy, will want to keep our planet healthy and clean. However, government should play a role to insure these principles are not abused for a quick careless buck. This goes back to my comments regarding EDUCATION and the left's desire to indoctrinate their agenda. Let's encourage objective science, which considers all options without pre-existing agendas or outcomes. | |||
| No | Do you generally support gun-control legislation? | ||
| ABSOLUTELY NOT...! Our CONSTITUTION is very clear on the RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS. The hundreds of existing gun laws have and never will stop the lawless; and law-abiding citizens should NEVER be stripped of their right of self-protection. | |||
| 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? | ||
| You cannot require that which so many businesses cannot afford... especially at a time when businesses are being hit hard on every front. Obamacare... was a disaster. There is not enough money in the world to provide all the healthcare... for all the people... all the time. Encourage competition across state lines, HSA's, coverage for pre-existing conditions and incentives for comprehensive prevention and education. The market will seek to fulfill the necessary remedy. | |||
| 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 must do WHATEVER we must... to ensure that our borders are SECURE... now and for the future. The first act of an immigrant should not be an ILLEGAL ACT... otherwise what incentive do they have to obey the RULE OF LAW upon which our country was founded and has prospered. We cannot descend into a third world country with endless and uncontrolled immigration, drug and sex-trafficking. Refugees seeking asylum must be thoroughly and carefully vetted. Chain migration, anchor babies and other tactics cannot be allowed to continue unabated. BUILD THE WALL or use whatever tactic to stop the invasion. | |||
| 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)? | ||
| Yes | Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts? | ||
| YES... but respond when NECESSARY. Popular opinion has changed since Saddam Hussein was threatening weapons of mass destruction... shooting at our reconnaissance aircraft... killing and enslaving opponents within his country and boisterously announcing his intent to send our "boys" home in body-bags by the tens-of-thousands. There was overwhelming support for our action which was quick, decisive and liberated Iraq. The quagmire and the revisionist history came later when our ACTION became bogged-down by weak Obama INACTION. We'll never know WHAT the outcome WOULD-HAVE-BEEN had we not engaged. WALK SOFTLY... CARRY A BIG STICK... and CHOOSE WISELY! PROTECT ISRAEL...! | |||
| Yes | Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)? | ||
| Economies are not simple or stagnant. They morph or change daily as the rules change and governments react. There is no one rule or principle that is eternal. Therefore encourage competition with "free" markets and limit barriers to friendly non-aggressive nations while penalizing aberrant and aggressive behavior. Respond as necessary to a changing global market economy while protecting the home front. | |||
| JUDICIAL REFORM... must be addressed at both the National and State levels where LAWS ARE IGNORED and MATERIAL FACTS are omitted in order to justify their rulings. It is CORRUPTION at its lowest... by those Judges who have been entrusted with unfettered power. Additionally, activist judges who make law... instead of enforcing the law must be reined in... otherwise there is no need for legislators or our Constitution. The RULE OF LAW must be upheld... or changed. Judges must be held ACCOUNTABLE... TRANSPARENT... and DETERRED with penalty. EDUCATION must be differentiated from INDOCTRINATION. LEGAL IMMIGRATION must be the ABSOLUTE RULE! |
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