Braeden J. Oswald

Neutral

Ultimately I feel that abortion is not a governmental issue. It is an issue that should be decided within social organizations that have been formed to create and determine the moral values of groups and individuals, such as religious organizations.

I feel that all abortions are elective to some degree. Using language to alter reality, simply to meet a person's desire is problematic. Having access to elective medical procedures can be both productive and harmful and can not be determined to be either good or bad.

Strongly Agree

The reason we as people form societies is to protect human life. Government's main purpose is to protect the people within. The people have agreed to outsource their violence to the government. The government is tasked with protecting its citizens from outside threats utilizing violence through the military and from inside threats utilizing violence through law enforcement.

Neutral

I am a supporter of technological advancement and understand that advancement requires data and iteration over periods of time. Harm to humans should be limited to achieve any advancement.

Neutral

State's Rights are one of the most important ideals for maintaining a prosperous and safe United States. If an individual does not agree with a State's law, they are free to self segregate to another State which better represents their personal values or beliefs. The Federal government has been granted power to regulate interstate commerce under Article 1, section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.

I feel that actual minimum wage should be $0. I say this because policies should be judged on their incentive effects and actual outcomes and not by the intentions behind them.

Strongly Agree

I feel an economic system is far more productive the more that governmental involvement is limited.

1 - Demand oversight on the spending of each and every tax dollar. 2 - Provide total transparency to citizens on every tax dollar spent. 3 - Stop providing financial support to any and all countries which are not the United States.

Separation of church and state means that no outside force shall be allowed to influence our representative government to include but not limited to: religious, economic, political, racial, identity, etc.

Strongly Disagree

No U.S. persons (to include businesses registered within the U.S.) should be leveraged, coerced or forced to provide service to anyone or anything that they do not wish to.

I feel that all rights require responsibility and that a possible solution to the healthcare problem is that all U.S. citizens provide unpaid service to our community for a determined amount of time in exchange for healthcare. This model could emulate something like how the National Guard operates, where individual would provide one weekend a month of service in exchange for benefits. The government would require insurance providers cover all participants fully in exchange for tax incentives.

Strongly Disagree

The government should not keep any databases on U.S. citizens. This is an obvious violation the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Strongly Disagree

Yes, China along with Israel, England, France, Russia, Iran, Germany and dozens of other countries pose serious military, cyber, intellectual property and economic threats to the U.S..

The current U.S. relationship with Israel is extremely dangerous and should be limited if not completely eliminated. All political, economic, military and other support should cease immediately. All countries to include our "FVEY" partners should be treated as threats first and cooperated with under very limited conditions going forward.

Strongly Disagree

U.S. persons as defined by the Federal government are provided legal status and protections. Those who do not qualify should remain outside the United States, allowed to apply for protective status and only permitted to enter the United States once all requirements are met.

Strongly Agree

State's Rights are one of the most important tenants of our country. Each State through their representative government are required to protect their resident's values. This is done through State institutes to include the educations system. If individual Citizens of the U.S. don't agree with the majority values in the State where they reside, they are free to self segregate and move where they do agree with the majority's values. The $79 billion budget would be better spent at the State level.

Strongly Agree

Education is vital in preserving our share societal values which have been created over tens of thousands of years prior to the existence of the United States. All outside influence should be strictly prohibited at the peril of degrading the most successful and free society which has ever existed in human history.

Strongly Agree

The duty of parental decisions concerning the directing of their own child's health and educational well-being should be treated as a valuable asset to our society and one that should be protected by the government.

Strongly Agree

It is standard practice and common sense throughout history that children's individual rights are curtailed by societal and governmental institutes until they reach adulthood. This is practiced for the purpose of protecting children from themselves as the prefrontal cortex which manages executive functions, decision-making, and emotional regulation has not fully formed, leaving young people vulnerable.

Neutral

Marriage serves to provide stability and continuity to societies throughout time and throughout the world and it should be a moral consideration decided by individuals and influenced by their value system. Government on the other hand views marriage no differently than it views a business contract between individuals. The two definitions and situation are not the same and should not be in the same conversation.

Agree

The extensive tax revenue generated from gambling can be utilized in very productive ways for the State's residents. Government should not be in the business of enforcing moral decisions, to include gambling. Any moral apprehension should be dealt with individually or though value based institutions.

My values are the shared values brought over to this country over 400 years ago. Values which were formed and refined for tens of thousands of years prior to the formation of the United States, and which have been the basis for the most successful societies in the world. I value time-tested traditions, systemic rules, and customs over abstract moral ideologies. I think every choice comes with a distinct cost. I do not subscribe to any specific organized spiritual belief system but do understand there are many unexplained forces in the universe.

Strongly Disagree

People should have to prove they are U.S. citizens before being allowed to take part in our electoral system. The only reason to not enforce proving citizenship is to purposefully allow non-citizens to vote.

Strongly Disagree

I will assume that this question is referring to the triangular slave trade of Europe, the Americas and West Africa in the 16th to 19th centuries and reparations to U.S. citizens of African decent and not other racial groups. I do not agree with any reparations. Countless measures of limited degrees of effectiveness have already been taken to right any past wrongs concerning this question, to include the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Strongly Agree

Women have been provided spaces, mores, concessions, customs and laws throughout our shared societal evolution to ensure them with specific protections. Creating these protections is a result of tens of thousands of years of development and ideals of which are considered common place, common sense and common law. Women of today should be continue to expect and provided with the same courtesies that so much thought and effort have been focused towards over our history as people.

Neutral

I think a free market, technological advancement and people's desire to live in a healthy environment will correct anything that is currently amiss with our climate over time.

Oil will continue to be the most reliable energy source for many years to come. The United States should ensure that the ability to create power though nuclear reaction should be implemented in large scale over the near term.

Conservative

I believe that we need to to limit our Federal government's power and increase our individual State's power. I believe that all individual rights have responsibilities associated to them. I believe U.S. citizens are shouldering a tax burden that is unfair and borderline illegal. If we have enough money to give to foreign governments, we are being taxed too much.

Never

Never

The criminal justice system is our overall agreement to outsource our societies violence to the state. With that said we need an extremely well trained law enforcement body, a just judicial system and increased punishment of violations to include corporal if necessary, especially for those involving sexual crimes and anything abusive or sexual towards children. Criminal behavior should harshly punished and eradicated.

Strongly Agree

As I've stated prior, the government has been tasked by us citizens with committing violence on our behalf. There are no more vulnerable citizens than our children. Any criminal activity towards children should be dealt with under the harshest letter of the law allowed.

Strongly Agree

Sharia law should be eradicated from the United States in its entirety. Federal and State laws are the only legal authority in the U.S. and anything else is only an effort to undermine and destabilize our society and our country.

It is illegal to restrict gun ownership as per the 2nd amendment of the U.S. Constitution. States with the most gun laws have the most gun associated crime. There are already restrictions to gun ownership in the U.S.. Why are those restrictions not being enforced already? "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"