Tom Alciere

Strongly Agree

It is especially harsh to force persons who believe abortion is murder, to pay for somebody else's abortion.

Neutral

Under the Doctrine of Enumerated Powers, Congress has no authority to govern such things except in the District of Columbia. In D.C., Congress must suffer persons to destroy themselves but must prohibit murder, which is the killing of somebody else.

None. Here, the unalienable right to control her own body conflicts with the baby human's unalienable right to life. Governments must not take sides on religious doctrinal issues, but it is irrelevant whether God or a godless nature makes the tide rise at Hampton Beach, because either way, the tide certainly does rise. It is irrelevant whether the baby's right to occupy that womb is God-given or natural, because, either way, it is the baby's right, which narrowly preempts the mother's right to control her body. Lawmakers must analyze the chessboard for every opportunity to minimize the burden to mothers and must never assume that all mothers will be okay with childbirth.

Employers must be free to offer a job and housing together if they wish to help a mother in a crisis pregnancy, so she can escape from a toxic relationship. Laws against sex discrimination must not interfere with such offers.

Emancipating the slaves was totally unacceptable to many persons, but the opponents were motivated by greed and wickedness. Lawmakers must remember that many a mother is pushed to the point of wanting to murder her own baby, but often not motivated by her own greed or wickedness. Maybe she could afford an apartment, but lawmakers inflate the cost with outrageous zoning restrictions and by requiring a parking lot, which she doesn't need if she has no car. Maybe she could afford child care, but laws require employees of child care centers to have a college degree to babysit children, which is absurd.

Adoption should not be an all-or-nothing deal. She may need somebody else to raise the child for a time. Arrangements involving less than total adoption must be permitted in the District of Columbia.

Every effort must be made to find chess moves that help her without violating anybody's rights.

Strongly Disagree

Many persons who are wealthy have benefitted from manipulations of the economy from agricultural subsidies to zoning variances, where bureaucrats backed by law enforcement decide who wins and who loses. Abolish zoning at the State level and let landlords scramble for tenants at half of today's rents. Some persons will lose everything, same as when slaves were emancipated.

Strongly Agree

Following the Doctrine of Enumerated Powers will reduce federal spending. Most federal spending is blatantly unconstitutional because it is not authorized by the U.S. Constitution. Closing U.S. military bases in foreign countries will cut the war budget. It's not the job of the United States of America to prop up crooked tyrants abroad.

Repeal the federal income tax and FATCA, because it's none of the federal government's business how much money you make, or have in the bank. Tax consumption that happens in the United States of America, because that is protected by the U.S. Armed Forces.

Strongly Agree

But religious objections should not be necessary if a caterer objects to serving at a same-sex "wedding" or if a gym owner objects to letting men walk in on women who are showering in the women's locker room or vice versa.

Strongly Disagree

In a free country, you would forced to provide a service if you do not wish to.

The State must not involve itself in regulating religious teachings.

The government has no right to make you get a vaccination. Private businesses have a right to choose their employees and their customers. If you paid tuition and during the middle of the school year the school says you can no longer attend without being vaccinated, that is breach of contract.

D. Health care is not a legitimate government function. Retirees who paid into Social Security and Medicare should be covered.

To see how the federal government will run hospitals, just look at the Veterans Administration. Is that how you want hospitals to be run?

D. Dethrone dictators by depriving them of victims: Open the borders and shut down the United States Border Patrol. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." America got along just fine for decades without immigration control.

Neutral

It is the right of the individual, whether a business owner or investor, to make these choices.

Strongly Agree

Try to resolve the conflicting territorial claims in the South China Sea by example, asserting a claim in the Permanent Court of Arbitration over Machias Seal Island, which is disputed, and is between Maine and Nova Scotia.

Stop the provocations by the United States Government, which started in 1953 with the toppling of an elected President in Iran, a President who would nationalize British Petroleum. There is no excuse for spending blood and treasure propping up oil companies.

Strongly Disagree

Shut down the United States Border Patrol. Humans are endowed with the unalienable right to travel as freely between Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona; or between Beebe Plain, Québec and Beebe Plain, Vermont; as they can travel between Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. Immigration makes the country stronger.

Neutral

Federal funds should not be provided to any State or local government, period.

Anybody who desires to do so. The government never had any right to restrict immigration in the first place. Many persons vote for candidates who support public school, because they feel that every child somehow has a right to an education at somebody else's expense. When school taxes go up, they tell local bureaucrats to impose tougher zoning restrictions to prevent more families from moving into the town, and they tell Congress to add more Border Patrol goons to prevent more families from moving into the country. Now, what were they saying about "every" child?

Strongly Disagree

Private businesses must be free to select their employees. How can the government call it "employment at will" if it is against the will of the employer? If a boy is disappointed that he is not a girl and he pretends to be a girl, that does not entitle him to walk in on girls who are showering after gym class in the girls' locker room or vice versa. Neither does the public school have a right to punish a student who calls the boy "he". Facts are stubborn things. Abolish public school.

Strongly Disagree

I accept Jesus Christ as my saviour, but it is not the job of lawmakers backed by law enforcement, to promote any religious doctrine.

Choose not to answer

The Constitution allows Congress to regulate the times, manner and places of holding Congressional elections. Congressional elections should be by ballots printed by check printing firms, and each with a unique serial number covered for privacy. After the polls close, night shift would uncover the serial numbers, time-stamp each ballot and scan it with a flatbed document scanner which would read the ballot and put the image on the elections website. You'd see a list of serial numbers that have a vote for your candidate, and you could click on any serial number to see a picture of the ballot. All the unused ballots would be accounted for the same way. Everybody would see how many votes each candidate got. If it sounds expensive just look at the cost of not running the 2020 presidential election that way.

Strongly Disagree

All of the victims of slavery and all of the persons who benefitted from slavery are dead. It's time to abolish the manipulations of the economy that hurt minorities. You couldn't open a new taxi company in a city that refused to issue more medallions. Ride share companies showed the benefits of eliminating that problem.

When crimes of police brutality have happened, all too often riots have broken out, where the rioters attacked the bodies and other property of innocent persons who didn't even deserve it. Let's not overlook racist Black folks. We need to stand together united and firm against law enforcement goons.

Choose not to answer

I will decide the cost versus benefits on a case-by-case basis because some environmental laws are pushed by big businesses, to increase costs and to prevent somebody else from competing against them.

Choose not to answer

I am an orthodox libertarian extremist. I did not see VERY LIBERTARIAN as a choice.

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I am an orthodox libertarian extremist. I support liberty and justice for all. I will adhere to the Doctrine of Enumerated Powers.

Strongly Disagree

Departmental policy cannot preempt constitutional rights or unalienable rights of an individual.

Neutral

Police are a necessary evil. I would shut down the Drug Enforcement Administration and the United States Border Patrol, but mental health care and community programs are not a legitimate function of government. Persons in the District of Columbia must be free to seek mental health care without fear of being locked up and drugged.

If they ban firearms in the post office, then they must have a security checkpoint where you can leave your gun at the door. Otherwise you must walk unarmed to the post office to sign for an important letter. Not everybody owns a car and leaving your gun in the car involves risk. Congress does not have authority to regulate firearms dealers. The fact that one man shot up a school in Uvalde, Texas is not an excuse to punish hunters who are younger than 21.

Strongly Disagree

It's like blaming the auto companies when a drunk driver kills somebody.