THE ISSUES of 2016 ELECTION
EQUAL RIGHTS / BULLYING / FAIR TREATMENT
Do you embrace racism and open discrimination??
Should women receive equal pay to men??
Should women be treated with respect (especially by our leaders)??
Should women be allowed to vote??
What about rights for minorities, including gay/lesbian persons??
IMMIGRATION and BORDER SECURITY
Do you feel border security needs to be increased??
Do you feel employers need to be forced to hire only U.S. citizens and those with authorization to work here??
Should immigrants be starved into self deporting??
Should the U.S. ban all Muslims??
Do you support deporting the roughly 11-million undocumented immigrants in the U.S.??
Does our current immigration laws need to be amended (fixed)??
Should the U.S. build a great wall on the Mexico border??
Will such a great wall help deter illegal immigration or flow of drugs and other illegal materials across the southern border??
MONEY, BUDGET and NATIONAL DEBT
Should the minimum wage be raised??
Should the U.S. spend more on the military budget??
Should the U.S. spend more on job growth??
Should the U.S. spend more on safety nets, elderly, education??
Should the U.S. spend more on infrastructure??
Should the President/Congress authorize a 19% tax cut to the top 1% or authorize tax cuts for the middle class down and tax increases for the top income earners (top 10%)??
Should the deficit continue rising, be forced down, or gradually reduced??
Do you favor top down (trickle down economics) or federal spending/incentives that produce new job growth??
FOREIGN POLICY and U.S. MILITARY
Do you support torture, extreme torture, and “elimination” of terrorist’s families??
Do you support willful espionage against U.S.??
Do you want to see another nuclear arms race (nuclear buildup), as was pre-Reagan??
Should the U.S. support NATO??
How should a President treat and react to world leaders??
Is it better to negotiate and resolve through diplomacy or to use threat of our military might, to force U.S. policy around the world??
Do you favor “boots on the ground” as regards issues like Syria and Iraq?? (and other world hot areas)
Should the new relationship with Cuba be revoked and a total ban put back on Cuba??
Should the United States claim resources of a nation we might invade (also called pillaging)??
HEALTH CARE / ENTITLEMENTS / SAFETY NETS / EDUCATION
Should the minimum wage be raised??
Should every child be provided a K-14 public education (is 12-yr now)??
Should our elderly and those in poverty have safety net programs like (social security, food assistance, healthcare)??
Should there be offsets in required services, based on in come – in particular healthcare??
Do you support going back to the 2007 health care?? (repeal of the affordable healthcare act – obamacare)
Is quality healthcare a basic right of every person or is it a privilege??
Should healthcare burden be placed with the employer or with each person??
Should healthcare be handled individually, by each state or standardized across the U.S.??
Is it preferred to have the Government act is middleman between safety nets like healthcare and the profitable provider industry or is preferred to issue set dollar amounts (vouchers) to each family, to use for yearly healthcare costs and allow each family to negotiate care with the profitable healthcare industry by themselves?? (example of Federal middleman is Medicare for the elderly)
DOMESTIC ISSUES
How should a President react to domestic crisis??
Should police be regulated per discriminatory practices??
Should Congress act to limit the ability of the Federal government or any State, from interpreting the 2nd amendment so that limitations are imposed on firearm ownership??
PRESIDENTIAL DEMEANOR and RESPECT
Should a Presidential candidate present their previous year(s) tax return??
Should a Presidential candidate take the higher ground, or state as the candidate desires at the moment??
Should candidate answer to allegations (not charges)??
CONGRESS and THE PARTY OF NO
Should Congress work together or say my way or the highway (party of no)??
Should Congress work with the current President to appoint a replacement Supreme court Justice or should they wait until their party candidate wins, to work together??
SUPREME COURT ISSUES
Should women be forced to accept religious position on abortion or each woman allowed to make this choice based upon her beliefs??
(repeal of roe v. wade)
Should Congress work with the current President to appoint a replacement Supreme court Justice in timely manner or should they wait until their party candidate wins, to select a new justice??
Should the rules regarding appointment of a Supreme court justice be modified so that the Senate must act by majority (not 3/5) vote and that the Senate may not refuse to vote on a given nominee presented??
CLIMATE CHANGE
Does climate change exist??
Should the President/Congress enact legislation to curb adding to climate harm??
ELECTION LAW
Should a national voter ID system be created and should such a system be no cost to every citizen??