Montana Libertarian Special US Congress Election Poll

1. 1. Healthcare. The US Congress is considering changes to be made to the Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”). I will vote to represent my constituency on those changes on the basis of this poll. Please choose which plan best reflects your view. If you wish to add a comment, please use the “comment” line.

       

      • Medicare for All (“Berniecare”)
      • Repeal/Replace (“Trumpcare”)
      • Repeal/Don’t Replace (“Randcare”)
      • Healthcare Blog, please comment:

       

   2. Immigration. President Trump says he wants to put an end to illegal immigration by building a very strong but expensive “wall” between the U.S and Mexico.

       

      • Build the “wall”
      • Online verification of employee legal status, heavy fines for hiring illegals- change laws.
      • Open the borders.
      • Immigration Blog, please comment:

       

   3. The Wars.

       

      • “Nuke’em- win, whatever it takes.
      • Continue what we’re doing.
      • Withdraw immediately.
      • Wars blog, please comment:

       

   4. Civil Liberties. Should police be allowed to “stop and frisk” with no probable cause to believe a crime has been committed?

       

      • Yes
      • No
      • Sometimes
      • Fourth Amendment Blog, please comment:

       

   5. Trade. We’re weighing “globalism” vs. “protectionism”, renegotiating trade agreements.

       

      • We should protect the American worker from foreign competition.
      • We need balanced trade deals.
      • Unrestricted Free Trade.
      • Trade Blog, please comment:

       

   6. Drugs. Should marijuana use be legalized?

       

      • Yes, taxed and regulated
      • No.
      • Yes, no tax or regulations.
      • Marijuana blog, please comment.:

       

   7. Prostitution. Should prostitution be legalized?

       

      • Yes, taxed and regulated.
      • No
      • Yes, no tax or regulation.
      • Prostitution blog, please comment:

       

   8. Death Penalty. Should the death penalty be abolished?

       

      • Yes
      • No
      • No opinion
      • Death Penalty blog, please comment:

       

   9. Was the “Citizen’s United” Supreme Court Decision right?

       

      • Yes
      • No
      • No opinion
      • Other, please specify:

       

   10. Was the “Roe v. Wade” supreme court decision a good one?

        

       • Yes
       • No
       • No opinion
       • Other, please specify:

        

   11. Should the government subsidize fuel ethanol made from food crops?

        

       • Yes
       • No
       • No opinion
       • Other, please specify:

        

   12. Is Julian Assange (Wikileaks) a hero or a traitor?

        

       • Hero
       • Traitor
       • Neutral
       • Other, please specify:

        

   13. Impeachment of President Trump. The biggest issue of this campaign will be the impeachment and/or conviction of President Trump.

        

       • Yes, I’ve made up my mind there’s plenty of evidence of “high crimes and misdemeanors” to impeach, and probably enough to convict.
       • Not yet. I would still have to learn more to be sure.
       • No. I don’t care what anyone says- now or ever.
       • Impeachment, please comment:

        

   14. Should the Electoral College system be changed to a popular vote?

        

       • Yes
       • No
       • No opinion
       • Other, please specify:

        

   15. Should there be a tax on assets?

        

       • Yes
       • No
       • No opinion
       • Other, please specify:

        

   16. Should there be a tax on income?

        

       • Yes
       • No
       • No opinion
       • Other, please specify:

        

   17. Should the government subsidize education past the 12th grade?

        

       • Yes
       • No
       • No opinion
       • Other, please specify:

        

   18. Should the government bail out insurance companies which make bad bets and then can’t pay claims?

        

       • Yes
       • No
       • No opinion
       • Other, please specify:

        

   19. Is America obligated to accept refugees from conflicts in which we’re engaged?

        

       • Yes
       • No
       • No opinion
       • Other, please specify:

        

   20. Is America obligated to accept refugees from conflicts in which we’re not engaged?”

        

       • Yes
       • No
       • No opinion
       • Other, please specify:

        

   21. Is racial profiling ever acceptable?

        

       • Yes
       • No
       • No opinion
       • Other, please specify:

        

   22. Is torture ever permissible?

        

       • Yes
       • No
       • No opinion
       • Other, please specify:

        

   23. Is it every American’s duty and obligation to vote?

        

       • Yes
       • No
       • No opinion
       • Other, please specify:

        

   24. Do you think felons should have their civil rights restored when they’ve completed their sentences?

        

       • Yes
       • No
       • No opinion
       • Other, please specify:

        

   25. Do you believe every law abiding American has the right to own a gun?

        

       • Yes
       • No
       • No opinion
       • Other, please specify:

        

   26. Do you think political corruption is a big problem in America?

        

       • Yes
       • No
       • No opinion
       • Other, please specify:

        

   27. Do you think government has too much power to keep secrets from the American People?

        

       • Yes
       • No
       • No opinion
       • Other, please specify:

        

   28. Taxation. Tax reform is a high priority for the new administration. Should the tax system be reformed? How?

        

       • Yes, President Trump’s plan sounds like an improvement
       • No, The Trump plan favors the rich, who already get too much tax-shelter.
       • Taxation is theft, get rid of all taxation.
       • Tax blog, please comment:

        

   29. Do you believe America needs a viable third party?

        

       • Yes
       • No
       • No opinion
       • Other, please specify:

        

*  The PLEDGE. Obviously this poll is inadequate to properly address all these complicated issues, and if I am to effectively represent my constituency a lot more polls with more specific questions will need to be created, circulated and tabulated before I’ll be able to make my final decision how to vote on each issue put before me. This is meant to be representative of an unbiased poll, like what would be available from the WebsiteTheme.

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Hopefully soon you’ll be able to do these polls in a few minutes online, and donate online. For now you’ll have to download the poll to paper, and send in the paper- and we’ll have to process them by hand. We live in America, and everything costs money.

You will notice that one of the answers to each question presented to you in this poll reflects strict “Libertarian Dogma”, and part of my purpose with this poll is to convince people who summarily reject Libertarians as being “too dogmatic” to reevaluate that judgement, as well as convince some of the most dogmatic Libertarians that a wider view would serve the purpose of Liberty better. CC

1. (Optional) Is there other questions you suggest we include in later polls? Other comments?

    

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