Political Policy Scale

Healthcare should be left to private insurance companies with maximized competition to ensure that people can get the best care they can afford, with specialized care and high efficiency.

EPA (Environmental Protections Agency) Regulations are necessary, but they should not be implemented so that they decrease private sector business outputs.

Stricter law enforcement in areas with higher crime rates leads to greater employment and business growth, as corporations are more likely to open up new stores in more well-protected areas.

Green energy is critical since human impact on the environment needs to be rapidly reduced. Environmental action is more important than economic prosperity.

The tax code needs to be vastly simplified so there are fewer loopholes for the super-wealthy and businesspeople to take advantage of.

A progressive tax is more unethical, since wealthy people are penalized and are in effect being robbed of potential profit.

Diversity should be encouraged in a country by ensuring that minority peoples are given greater priority when appointing government positions.

Drugs should be legalized and regulated by the government to keep harmful substances off of the streets where people can become easily addicted.

Drugs should be legalized because people should be accountable to themselves and beholden to their own decisions, and the government has no place in giving someone a criminal record if they choose to use drugs.

The government should introduce a flat tax to stimulate the economy by allowing the job-creating wealty class to invest in the economy without the burden of increased taxation.

Corporations ought to label their products with health information to ensure that consumers are not blind to the ingredients used in the production of the product they are buying.

People should be given easy, cost effective access to post-secondary education at the expense of higher taxation.

Stimulus is necessary to ensure that the economy can restabilize after a recession.

Healthcare should have a public and private option to ensure that people have sufficient choice in the way they would like to approach their healthcare.

CItizens who entered the country illegally should be given a path to citizenship.

Individual states should be in charge of deciding whether or not marijuana is to be legalized or not.

Gun legislation should restrict commercial purchase of assault weapons.

Charitable organizations are the best way to deal with poverty and homelessness.

Elected officials should not be permitted to become lobbyists.

Mass surveillance is necessary to stop terrorism before it occurs.

Backdoor encryption into mobile phones and computers should never be legal, even if it can prevent crime.

Campaign finance should be entirely public; high limits should be set to ensure that corporate interests have no influence on elected or campaigning officials.

Government ought to be transparent, honest, accountable, and down-to-earth.

Religious school boards should be allowed to recieve public support via taxes.

Education should not be standardized; the institutions should set their own standards for passing and failing students.

Carbon taxes should only be implemented once economic security is closer to a guarantee.

The internet should be an entirely free and open platform for free speech and diversity of opinion.

The government's primary concern should be to protect the civil rights of minorities and the underprivileged.

Foreign aid should tend towards the more noninterventionist approaches.

States should act like "laboratories" for different policy ideas implemented by the government.

Religious liberty means that churches should not be required to preform marriages for same-sex couples.

The oath taken by new elected officials should be sworn by the constitution rather than by the Bible.

Economic competition sometimes requires government intervention.

Presidents and other government officials should have specific term limits in office.