1. Reducing the capital gains tax rate on profits from the sale of stocks, bonds and real estate.
- X
2. Permitting tax-free withdrawals from IRAs in limited circumstances.
- X
3. Providing some kind of middle-class tax break.
- X
4. Increasing the income taxes of those with incomes over $100,000.
- No Answer
5. Providing a tax credit for first-time home buyers.
- X
6. Repealing luxury taxes on limited items.
- X
7. Providing a temporary investment tax credit.
- X
8. Other
- X
1. Health Care
- Decrease Spending
2. Unemployment
- Decrease Spending
3. AIDS Research
- Decrease Spending
4. Environment
- Decrease Spending
5. Defense
- Decrease Spending
6. Education
- Decrease Spending
7. National Debt Payments
- Keep Spending The Same
8. Drugs
- Decrease Spending
1. Reduce governmental defense spending.
- X
2. Reduce governmental domestic spending.
- X
3. Raise personal income taxes for all citizens.
- No Answer
4. Raise personal income taxes for citizens with incomes over $100,000.
- No Answer
5. Raise corporate taxes.
- No Answer
6. Do nothing at the present time.
- No Answer
7. Other
- X
1. Extending unemployment compensation further.
- Oppose
2. Federal support of job retraining programs.
- Oppose
3. Federal grants to states for creating jobs in inner cities.
- Oppose
4. Mandating workfare for welfare recipients.
- Oppose
5. Minimizing governmental intervention and letting the market take a more natural course.
- Strongly Support
6. Federal investment in America's infrastructure.
- Strongly Oppose
7. Other
- Strongly Support
1. Restricting the overall volume of goods entering the United States from Japan.
- No Answer
2. Imposing tariffs on goods entering the United States from Japan.
- No Answer
3. Requiring Japan to eliminate its trade surplus with the United States over a period of five years.
- No Answer
4. Requiring reciprocal trade agreements between the United States and Japan based on equal dollar values.
- No Answer
5. Imposing no restrictions on trade between the United States and Japan.
- X
6. Other
- No Answer
1. Reduction of the number of American military troops.
- Strongly Support
2. Continued funding of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).
- Oppose
1. Elimination of private insurance in favor of a program administered and paid for by the federal government and run by the states, similar to the health care system in Canada.
- No Answer
2. Offering tax incentives to all small employers in return for guaranteed health insurance coverage of all employees and their families.
- No Answer
3. Implementation of a "play or pay" program where employers must enroll their employees and families in a basic health plan or contribute to a public fund that will provide health care for everyone without coverage.
- No Answer
4. Creation of a fund designed to provide health insurance to the unemployed and supported by additional tax levies on large employers.
- No Answer
5. A system of tax credits and vouchers to provide health insurance for the working poor and people of moderate income.
- X
6. No reform necessary at this time.
- No Answer
7. Other
- X
1. Increased federal funding.
- No Answer
2. Increased state and local funding.
- No Answer
3. Improved teacher recruitment and training.
- No Answer
4. National curricula and standards.
- No Answer
5. Smaller classes.
- No Answer
6. Increased national testing.
- No Answer
7. A "choice" or "vouchers" program.
- X
8. No major changes are necessary at this time.
- No Answer
9. Other
- X
1. Provide federal funds to educate people about the dangers of drugs.
- No Answer
2. Provide federal funds to help drug addicts overcome their addictions.
- No Answer
3. Work with foreign governments to stop the export of drugs to this country.
- No Answer
4. Impose mandatory federal jail sentences for drug dealers.
- No Answer
5. Impose mandatory federal jail sentences for drug users.
- No Answer
6. Legalize the possession and use of drugs.
- X
7. Other
- X
1. Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration.
- No Answer
2. Amending the Clean Water Act's section on wetlands to provide landowners with greater rights.
- Support
3. Reauthorization of The Endangered Species Act in its current form.
- Oppose
1. Parental or spousal notification prior to permitting an abortion.
- Oppose
2. Abortion should be illegal in all circumstances.
- Strongly Oppose
3. Federally funded abortions should be permitted.
- Oppose
4. Women should be able to get abortions if they want no matter what the reason.
- Strongly Support
5. Abortion should be legal only in limited circumstances, for example, when the life of the mother is endangered or in the case of rape or incest.
- Strongly Oppose
1. Expansion of the number of federal crimes punishable by death.
- Strongly Oppose
2. A mandatory waiting period before the purchase of a handgun.
- Oppose
3. Increased federal spending for state and local police programs.
- Strongly Oppose
4. A ban on the sale and possession of assault-style semiautomatic weapons.
- Strongly Oppose
5. A limitation on habeas corpus appeals for death row inmates.
- Don't Know
6. Other
- Strongly Support
1. What will you do about each priority?
- First, fully restore the Bill of Rights, especially the 4th Amendment. Immediately cut national homicide rates and violent crime in half by ending the sadistically immoral and fanatically stupid war on drugs, abolishing the Drug Enforcement Agency. Second, declare national bankruptcy, selling government assets, paying off the national debt by allowing the state to wither through attrition and privatization of any legitimate economic activity and by abolition of illegitimate activity. Repeal the personal income tax and abolish the IRS.
2. How will you finance (when necessary) each priority?
- No Answer