Sarah Abdouch

Elective abortion should not be legal under any circumstances. Cases of medical care that may result in the death of the infant in utero while treating a mother in critical condition are not considered abortions, although they are often conflated to be such, and I would not support these cases being penalized.

Strongly Agree

Strongly Disagree

Property taxes should be outlawed because they deprive citizens of ownership of their property. The majority of taxes should be reduced or pared down into a single or a few limited sources.

Administrative offices are often set up in response to managing regulation. Schools, for example, have seen massive increases in non-teaching administrative positions, while teachers continue to complain of being underpaid and their classrooms under-provided for. This is largely because of the increase in regulation from the federal branch. This is just one example, but regulations should be generally decreased to reduce the burden on the taxpayer of compliance. I also support reducing eligibility for welfare programs like foodstamps, which I have been able to witness being grossly abused through my work history, and I also believe programs like medicaid need to be cut or limited significantly. Hospitals generally have immense funds set up to cover medical costs for those who are in extreme circumstances, and I support private charity over governmental intervention since the latter is often abused and has no incentive to address the abuse.

Strongly Disagree

Strongly Disagree

None.

D most closely matches my stance. If we were evaluating these programs from the standpoint of a new implementation, I might be a bit more starry-eyed about them, but the fact is, we've seen how they operate and it is a poor performance by any measure.

None. Vaccinations are a private health choice and under no circumstances should they be mandated by any entity. I believe they should be encouraged in certain settings, like schools, especially those targeting very serious childhood diseases. However, that's still a decision parents should make for their children and adults should make for themselves.

Islamic terrorism stems from a very old war between Islamic nations and Christendom. We're never going to eradicate it because there are always going to be those who interpret Islamic law violently. However, the involvement of the Soviets in the Middle East caused the violence there to spill out into other places by destabilizing the region, to the detriment of everyone. I think it's best to let Middle Eastern countries that wish to institute Sharia, and have Islam be their nation's politics and religion, be, and allow them to spiral into their inevitable irrelevance globally. Let those who wish to be ruled by Islam live in Islamic countries, and let those Islamic countries fight amongst themselves about who's right and who's wrong. If those battles spill over into a Western democracy and threaten peaceful citizens, then anyone involved in such plots should be captured and executed as war criminals. Terrorism, from any source, that results in the shedding of innocent blood, must be met with equal force and utter shame.

Strongly Disagree

Palestinians don't exist. It's a made-up nationality for Arabs in the region to give them the appearance of legitimacy. The presence of Jews in Israel is one of the oldest historical facts and the Jewish people should be allowed to settle and defend their homeland.

Strongly Agree

Immigration to America should only be offered to a limited number of people who wish to be American and are demonstrably able to support themselves and contribute to the nation. The number should be based on how many people can be reasonably assimilated by the American culture. Asylum may be offered to those coming from directly-adjacent countries who are facing the threat of imminent death because of their beliefs or inherent characteristics. However, Asylum shouldn't be offered to those with many safe countries in-between. This is an act of charity though, and should not be treated as a right because the asylee is not an American citizen with the rights of such.

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I'm a Christian. Anyone who knows me will say I'm fair-minded and very inquisitive, as well as, I hope, quite respectful of those who are acting in good faith even if we disagree strongly. I'm willing to listen to any argument and enjoy the process of rationalizing beliefs. However, there are fundamental tenants of my faith that are non-negotiable, such as the inherent value of every human life.

Strongly Disagree

Voting should only be day-of and in-person, except for absentee voting for the Armed Forces, or those who are bedridden/handicapped, and it should be a national holiday so that people are free to poll-watch, witness tabulation, and go vote themselves.

There are significant political groups that are fomenting an idea of ethnic identity over a national one, and that will lead to societal disarray because it's encouraging those groups to make themselves into a permanent sub-class for the purposes of political expediency. This is a movement of Marxism at its core, because Marxism believed in a natural uprising of the poor underclass against the rich. In absence of that uprising, which was curtailed because of the success of the Industrial Revolution and American innovation, political groups that seek that social destabilization have had to instead create divisions on the basis of race, sex, and sexual orientation to create a new "proletariat", with the dominant American culture being targeted as the "bourgeoise". This has been somewhat effective, though only through the spending of enormous quantities of money to create the appearance of a strong grassroots where none exists. These political groups often encourage direct violence from their followers, and should be disbanded at the first sign of such.

Strongly Disagree

My view is reflected by A. The government's role in infrastructure is to provide it and protect it, not put a finger on the scale in favor of some energy sources. Beyond that, Green Energy is an absolute sham, using massive quantities of land and spreading trash across once-verdant environments. They are unsustainable, unreliable, and can't even be disposed of in a clean way when they break.

Strongly Agree

The purpose of government is to impose certain limitations on the population to the extent that those people may not harm others by their actions. Additionally, the purpose of government is the promotion of the general welfare, like infrastructure, and maintenance of national defense and foreign relations.

Very Conservative

The Daily Nonpareil has featured interviews with me, as well as the Convention of States organization.

No.

The fact is, much of this questionnaire simply doesn't apply to the role that I would have, which would be to represent the local interests of my constituency in the Iowa House. My priorities are largely around very unsexy issues like long-term management of the Missouri River, reducing hunting fees and ensuring better management of natural resources by the DNR, and pushing for school choice so each parent can decide where to school their children regardless of their circumstances. I want to reduce taxes, and I want to reduce harms. I want people in my district to be freer and if people are infringing upon my constituents' rights to life and land and liberty, I want to deal with it. It's pretty simple at the end of the day.

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None.

Strongly Disagree