These are the results of a NPAT test taken by Mr. Canning recently:
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding abortion.
a) Abortions should always be illegal.
b) Abortions should always be legal.
c) Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
X d) Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
X e) Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
f) Abortions should be limited by waiting periods and notification requirements as decided by each state government.
g) Prohibit the dilation and extraction procedure, also known as "partial-birth" abortion.
h) Prohibit public funding of abortions and of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
i) Provide funding for family planning programs as a means to decrease the number of abortions.
X j) Other or expanded principles
Well for one, I agree that rape abortions should always be allowed, but not incest. Incest is the fault of the parents and does not justify an abortion. Also I beleive that abortions should only be legal up until the 2nd term of pregnancy, this is when the baby develops a heart-beat and begins to form, etc..
Budgetary, Spending, and Tax Issues, Part 1: Budget Priorities
Budget Priorities
Using the key below, indicate what levels of federal funding you support for the following general categories. Select one number per category.
Maintain Funding Status a) Agriculture
Slightly Increase Funding b) Arts
Maintain Funding Status c) Defense
Greatly Increase Funding d) Education
Slightly Increase Funding e) Environment
Slightly Decrease Funding f) Homeland security
Slightly Decrease Funding g) International aid
Slightly Increase Funding h) Law enforcement
Slightly Increase Funding i) Medical research
Maintain Funding Status j) National parks
Maintain Funding Status k) Public health services
Maintain Funding Status l) Scientific research
Greatly Decrease Funding m) Space exploration programs
Slightly Increase Funding n) Transportation and highway infrastructure
Slightly Increase Funding o) Welfare
No Answer p) Other
No Answer q) Other
Budgetary, Spending, and Tax Issues, Part 2: Defense Spending
Defense Spending
Using the key below, indicate what levels of federal funding you support for the following categories. Select one number per category.
Maintain Funding Status a) Armed Forces personnel training
Slightly Decrease Funding b) Intelligence operations
Maintain Funding Status c) Military hardware
Maintain Funding Status d) Modernization of weaponry and equipment
Slightly Decrease Funding e) National missile defense
Greatly Increase Funding f) Pay for active duty personnel
Maintain Funding Status g) Programs to improve troop retention rates
Maintain Funding Status h) Research and development of new weapons
Maintain Funding Status i) Troop and equipment readiness
No Answer j) Other
No Answer k) Other
Budgetary, Spending, and Tax Issues, Part 3: Taxes (A)
Taxes
Using the key below, indicate what levels you support regarding taxes, deductions, and tax credits in the following categories. Select one number per category.
Income Taxes:
Family Income
Eliminate a) Less than $25,000
Maintain b) $25,000-$75,000
Maintain c) $75,000-$150,000
Greatly Increase d) Over $150,000
No Answer e) Other
Retiree Income
Eliminate f) Over $40,000
No Answer g) Other
Other Taxes:
Maintain a) Alcohol taxes
Greatly Decrease b) Capital gains taxes
Slightly Increase c) Cigarette taxes
Slightly Increase d) Corporate taxes
Slightly Decrease e) Gasoline taxes
Eliminate f) Inheritance taxes
No Answer g) Other
Deductions/Credits:
Eliminate a) Charitable contributions
Eliminate b) Child tax credit
Slightly Decrease c) Earned income tax credit
Maintain Status d) Medical expense deduction
Maintain Status e) Mortgage deduction
Greatly Increase f) Student loan credit
No Answer g) Other
Budgetary, Spending, and Taxes, Part 3: Taxes (B)
No 4) Do you support permanent repeal of the federal estate tax?
Yes 5) Do you support eliminating taxes on dividends paid to individual investors?
Yes 6) Should a married couple filing jointly pay the same taxes as if they were an unmarried couple filing separately?
No Answer 7) Other or expanded principles
Campaign Finance and Government Reform Issues
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform.
X a) Support public taxpayer funding for federal candidates who comply with campaign spending limits.
b) Eliminate publicly financed matching funds for presidential campaigns.
c) Raise campaign spending limits for presidential candidates who wish to receive matching funds.
X d) Increase the amount individuals are permitted to contribute to federal campaigns.
X e) Prohibit Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions to candidates for federal office.
X f) Ban unregulated soft money campaign contributions to political parties or committees.
X g) Ban ads paid for by soft money that support or attack a candidate for federal office.
h) Ban issue advocacy commercials by corporations, labor unions, and non-profit groups which appear within 60 days of a general election and within 30 days of a primary election.
X i) Remove all contribution limits on federal campaigns and parties.
X j) Require unions to give members the option of not having dues used for political purposes.
Yes k) Do you support instant run-off voting (IRV)?
No l) Should Election Day be a national holiday?
Yes m) Should same-sex couples be allowed to form civil unions?
No n) Should marriage be restricted to a union only between a man and a woman?
X o) Other or expanded principles
I don't understand taking away the rights of gay people. Homosexuality isn't a disease, so I do not see a need to treat it as one. It is a simple personal choice.
Crime Issues
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding crime.
X a) Support the use of the death penalty for federal crimes.
b) Eliminate the use of the death penalty for federal crimes.
c) Impose "truth in sentencing" for violent criminals so they serve full sentences with no chance of parole.
X d) Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
X e) Support programs to provide prison inmates with drug and alcohol addiction treatment.
f) Increase funding for community policing programs.
X g) Reduce prison sentences for those who commit non-violent crimes.
X h) Support additional criminal penalties if a fetus is killed in the commission of a federal crime against a pregnant woman.
X i) Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation, and disability be prosecuted as federal hate crimes.
X j) Support programs that provide job training and placement services for at-risk youth.
X k) Impose stricter penalties for those convicted of white-collar crimes.
l) Enforcement of civil rights should primarily be the responsibility of the federal government.
X m) Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
X n) Other or expanded principles
As for fetus's. Though they aren't alive it is a very sad and generally traumatizing to the mother. So this basically would count as emotional distress, meaning scricter punishments.
Drug Issues
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding drugs.
a) Support mandatory jail sentences for selling illegal drugs.
b) Expand federally sponsored drug education and drug treatment programs.
X c) Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
X d) Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
X e) Increase border security to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S.
X f) Eliminate federal funding for programs associated with the "war on drugs."
X g) Other or expanded principles
Marijuana is the only drug I will legalize. Because in some instances it is acctually healthy for you, as it opens your lungs allowing easier breathing. Also it is proven less dangerous than cigars. On an extra note we waste 50,000,000,000$ a year on the "war on drugs" yet drug problems worse in the united states.
Education Issues
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education.
a) Support national standards for and testing of public school students.
b) Allow parents to use vouchers (equal opportunity scholarships) to send their children to any public school.
c) Allow parents to use vouchers (equal opportunity scholarships) to send their children to any private school.
d) Allow parents to use vouchers (equal opportunity scholarships) to send their children to any religious school.
e) Allow teachers and professionals to receive authorization and funding to establish charter schools.
X f) Increase funding for block grants to states to help them hire additional teachers.
X g) Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.
X h) Increase funding for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings, infrastructure, and technology).
i) Eliminate restrictions on federal education funding, giving educators or local school districts more flexibility to design and to implement programs.
j) Support granting states limited control over Head Start programs.
X k) Support changing the mission of Head Start to improving the math and reading skills of disadvantaged children.
l) Providing education is not a responsibility of the federal government.
m) Support affirmative action in public college admissions.
X n) Increase funding of programs such as Pell grants and Stafford loans to help students pay for college.
X o) Support federal tax incentives to help families save for college.
p) Other or expanded principles
Employment and Affirmative Action Issues
1) Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding employment.
X a) Increase funding for national job-training programs that re-train displaced workers or teach skills needed in today's job market.
X b) Reduce government regulation of the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
c) Provide tax credits or grants to businesses that offer employee child care services.
X d) Encourage employers to offer flex-time scheduling, comp-time, and unpaid leave for family emergencies.
e) Eliminate all federal programs designed to reduce unemployment.
X f) Increase the federal minimum wage.
X g) Support the right of workers to strike without fear of being permanently replaced.
h) Allow workers to sell company stock and to diversify their company retirement funds into other investment options.
X i) Other or expanded principles
I intend to establish the minimum wage at 10$- an hour.
2) Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding affirmative action.
a) The federal government should consider race and gender in government contracting decisions.
X b) The federal government should discontinue affirmative action programs.
c) The federal government should continue affirmative action programs.
d) Include sexual orientation in federal anti-discrimination laws.
X e) Other or expanded principles
Though I believe that affirmative action is unfair to majorities and very discriminative, I believe it needs to be reformed rather than eliminated. Establish affirmative actions for mentally and physically challenged people, eliminate racial and gender quotas.
Environment and Energy Issues
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy.
X a) Strengthen the regulation and enforcement of the Clean Water Act.
X b) Strengthen the regulation and enforcement of the Clean Air Act.
X c) Require states to compensate citizens when environmental regulations limit uses of privately-owned land.
X d) Exempt the military from some environmental regulations.
e) Relax logging restrictions on federal lands.
f) Relax standards on federal lands to allow increased recreational usage.
g) Support increased development of traditional energy resources (e.g. coal, natural gas, oil).
X h) Strengthen emission controls and fuel efficiency standards on all gasoline and diesel-powered engines, including cars, trucks, and sport utility vehicles.
i) Support opening a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil exploration.
X j) Encourage further development and use of alternative fuels to reduce pollution.
k) Support use of ethanol as an alternative fuel.
l) Allow energy producers to trade pollution credits.
m) Support the U.S. re-entering the Kyoto treaty process to limit global warming.
X n) Other or expanded principles
I think if we truly want to cut back on pollution, we need to establish Solar and Hydrogen energies as the main energy source of the United States. Eventually eliminating gasoline and oil all together. Also we need to put current energy companies to work for the military to prevent mass unemployment.
Gun Issues
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding guns.
a) Renew the ban on the sale or transfer of semi-automatic guns, except those used for hunting.
b) Maintain the current level of enforcement of existing federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
c) Strengthen the enforcement of existing federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
d) Ease federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
e) Repeal federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
X f) Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
g) Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
X h) Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
X i) Require a license for gun possession.
X j) Establish a national database of ballistic "fingerprints" to track guns used in criminal activities.
X k) Support legislation that would protect manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and importers of firearms from civil lawsuits by crime victims.
l) Other or expanded principles
Health Issues
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health care.
a) Providing health care is not a responsibility of the federal government.
X b) Implement a universal health care program to guarantee coverage to all Americans regardless of income.
X c) Support a Patient's Bill of Rights which includes appeal mechanisms when claims are denied.
X d) Support a Patient's Bill of Rights which includes the right to sue when claims are denied.
e) Expand eligibility for tax-free medical savings accounts.
f) Establish limits on the amount of punitive damages awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
X g) Support prescription drug coverage under Medicare.
X h) Support prescription drug coverage under private managed care plans.
i) Offer tax credits to individuals and small businesses to offset the cost of insurance coverage.
X j) Support automatic enrollment of children in federal health care programs such as CHIP and Medicaid.
k) Allow 55-65 year-olds to buy into Medicare.
X l) Support stem cell research on existing lines of stem cells.
X m) Allow laboratories to create lines of stem cells for additional research.
X n) Other or expanded principles
The Centrist Equality Party endorses establishing a national system of socialized medicine similar to those in Canada and England.
Immigration Issues
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding immigration.
a) Decrease the number of legal immigrants allowed into the country.
b) Establish English as the official national language.
c) Increase the number of visas issued for agricultural workers.
d) Relax restrictions barring legal immigrants from using social programs (e.g. public housing, food stamps).
e) Support amnesty for certain illegal immigrants who already reside in the United States.
f) Support the detention of asylum seekers from countries known to sponsor terrorism.
X g) Other or expanded principles
Illegal immigrants are commiting a crime. Ignoring it is a bigger crime. I say we deport the illegal immigrants and make them get in the fair and honest way.
International Aid, International Policy, and Trade Issues, Part 1: International Aid
International Aid
Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding U.S. economic assistance.
X a) Aid should be granted to countries when extraordinary circumstances cause disaster and threaten civilian lives.
b) Aid should be granted to countries when it is in the security interests of the U.S.
c) Aid should be eliminated for any nation with documented human rights abuses.
d) Aid programs should be scaled back and eventually eliminated.
X e) Other or expanded principles
I believe it isn't our real duty to supply other countries with money.
However I feel we need to supply an ally with funding in extreme cases (nuclear attack and other forms of mass destruction).
International Aid, International Policy, and Trade Issues, Part 2: International Policy
International Policy
1) Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the Middle East.
No a) Should the United States continue to provide leadership in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process?
No b) Should the United States support the creation of a Palestinian state?
Yes c) Should the United States withdraw its troops from Iraq?
d) Discuss your proposals for the reconstruction of Iraq. What funding sources would you use to implement these proposals? (100 words or less. Please use an attached page if the space below is not adequate.)
I beleive we should pay our destruction costs and leave Iraq. Plain and simple.
No Answer e) Other or expanded principles
2) Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding Central and East Asia.
No a) Should the U.S. use diplomatic pressure to encourage North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program?
No b) Should the U.S. use economic pressure to encourage North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program?
No c) Should the U.S. use military force to destroy the North Korean nuclear weapons program?
No d) Should the U.S. remove the North Korean government from power?
No