Andrew Matishen

When pregnancy would end the life of the mother. Look forward to the day when abortion does not end the development of the fetus.

Strongly Agree

Agree

Abolish as is and have a flat tax rate. Will increase compliance and decrease complexity and political games.

Reduce defense spending, eliminate Department of Education, don't guarantee student loans.

Agree

Agree in theory for in demand professional training but first need to dramatically reduce the cost. Otherwise this would be a huge potential abuse of public money like guaranteeing student loans is today.

Strongly Agree

Religious beliefs trump ones desire to have a service performed by a member of a community. Especially in an age when services can usually be performed by many other businesses.

Only if they are harboring and encouraging criminal activity at which point in time they cease to be churches.

B. I believe in universal health insurance but not government provided health care(Think that would be a disaster). Business don't insure high risk/cost patients or they lose money and since every person is valued you an non business entity to provide health coverage high risk people. The most efficient way to do that is to provide universal coverage to pool expenses across healthy and non healthy populations,

If the alternative is widespread infection and death of a significant percentage of the population.

Identify groups that are threats and work with those countries where those threats exist to encourage them to teach that the US is not their enemy. That they should focus on building up their own nations instead of holding grievances against others for past actions. The bigger external threat is China. China is the pacing challenge as is mentioned in DoD talks the area in which I work. The everyday citizen can weaken China by not purchasing goods manufactured in China. Nationally we need to shift manufacturing to other nations and keep a strong military presence in the South Pacific.

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I am not familiar with this movement. Clearly want peace in the middle east and that won't be achieved by compulsory means.

Strongly Agree

Would good is a permeable border? Theoretical?

Those who have needed skills and are willing to obey the laws of the country.

Agree

Agree to the concept of choice but because I agree with a flat tax I disagree with tax credits and voucher programs incentivizing people to make a choice. Government can either run the school or pay for someone to run their own school but shouldn't be picking winners and losers and handing out checks for private schools.

Agree

Judeo-Christian values is the best basis for a moral society. Maybe there is something out there that can be equally effective but current frameworks are contributing to an increase in the size of government and laws to offset circumstances where the golden rule is not followed and neighbors are not treated as brothers and sisters.

Disagree

Gender is not self identified, your orientation or interests may be. These laws while perhaps being well intended would protect an ambiguous concept which would lead to confusion.

Strongly Agree

I think government should not be defining marriage.

Strongly Disagree

Not all institutions in the country have a racist past or reason for existence. This seems like a very myopic understanding of history.

I am a child of God as is everyone else making us brothers and sisters. We chose to come to earth. We should love God because he first loved us and gave us this opportunity to live. We should love our neighbors. We show our love for God by obedience to him and loving our neighbors. I believe that all people will stand accountable before God for the actions committed and not committed(those that reasonably could have been done) while on earth. I believe we will all live again someday and that we will have much more harmony in the world than what we presently experience.

Strongly Agree

You can vote without voter id but you need voter idea to register to vote. Registration should require a photo ID definitely.

New practices for voting all candidates fill out one standard survey. Voters can see survey results and take the same survey. Voters can compare their responses to candidates. Candidates may present a candidate profile and must disclose voting record. Voters can rank candidates in order of those that best represent and least represent them using Rank Choice Voting methods.

Possibly if people make it a big deal. Otherwise I would handle racism on a case by case basis. A lot of generalizations or broad brushes toward groups as victims and perpetrators is not constructive.

Strongly Disagree

Way to opened ended without direction causation. Wrong in so many ways as well as completely impractical. Why should tax payers or worse yet tax payers of a particular race pay money to people of a different race without evidence they have done something wrong? Tying back to the slave trade is more ludicrous since no one alive on either side was alive over 150 years ago.

A is closer to my view point but some laws and regulations are worth the cost and a complete environmental compliance could bankrupt the country. A bankrupt manufacturer for example creates no pollution and also no jobs and no products. We need sensible laws and compliance with those laws. We all want a clean planet, agreeing on how we can be good stewards for the earth and live, work, manufacture on it is an important group decision.

Agree

As long as it is not destroying the environment or causing earthquakes I don't have a problem with fracking.

To provide the right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and other unalienable rights to its citizens under the consent of its citizens.

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I think this survey is supposed to answer this question. I think I am rather conservative on most issues but I am not very happy with the positions that many self called "conservatives" have taken lately. IE Increasing the federal deficit, denying election results, treating immigrants poorly,

Anyone who knows me knows I am a compassionate conservative. I put people first. I believe in being fiscally conservative(I am a CPA and have worked in finance for 25 years). I believe in conserving resources that have been given to us both in terms of environmental resources and financial. We should be thankful not wasteful. Conservatives should be the least wasteful people in my definition of the word. I think it a mistake to call capitalists(who would exploit the environment for gain) necessarily a conservative. I believe in small government and following the constitution as outlined by the founding fathers. I think many in power abuse the authority given them and they do not follow the separation of powers described for their offices. Furthermore they over tax people often to please the people who support their campaigns. We need to love and respect others and converse civilly so that we can balance the needs of many parties and search out solutions where most parties are satisfied. We need to emphasis the common good in each of us and deemphasize issues and extremists that would separate us.

Never done such things.

5 steps to improving government by eliminating primaries/caucuses, eliminating campaigning, rank choice voting, term limits, and prosecuting conflict of interest actions. Those steps would reduce the influence of money in campaigning and while serving, would increase transparency, and allow for more candidates with less incentives to compromise on their integrity. As for other issues I'm concerned about the drought in our state(Utah) and our slow reaction to limiting our water usage/waste. Also concerned about housing availability and the constant push for growth when unemployment is 2%.

Strongly Agree

You can't prosecute someone for doing their job. If they have done something wrong in that case then go after those who defined their job incorrectly.

Agree

That is fine as long as we have sufficient police officers to support the community. The treatment of many police officers lately is discouraging potential recruits from entering the police force. Need to be safe from immediate danger first and then work on long term support measures like supporting mental health and community programs.

I don't want 8 year olds carrying loaded automatic weapons to show and tell. So we need an age limit to possessing a gun. We need more thorough background checks on people purchasing guns. Fine to know of someone's terribly threatening Facebook/Instagram posts after they have gone on a shooting spree. Would be far better if the search engines that include all these threats are referenced during back ground checks so the applicant does not get a gun in the first place.

Disagree

Sue the people that fired the shots. Dealers and manufactures should only be sued for false advertising, knowing harming the environment, or making something that does not perform to specifications.