Hillary Clinton fans, do you agree with your preferred candidate on the following issues?

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49. Here are my answers

I do think Obamacare can be tweaked. But that said I actually don't think it is single payer that is needed as much as a divorcing of insurance and employment. Many countries have non single payers systems and fabulous systems (France to name one).

Do you oppose single-payer healthcare (Medicare-for-All), and like Obamacare, but feel it needs to be tweaked?

I do think Obamacare can be tweaked. But that said I actually don't think it is single payer that is needed as much as a divorcing of insurance and employment. Many countries have non single payers systems and fabulous systems (France to name one).


Do you oppose reinstating Glass-Steagall to break up the largest banks and separate commercial from investment banking?

I don't necessarily oppose it but feel that it isn't the be all and all that many apparently think it is. The places that got in the most trouble wouldn't have been covered by that law. I think that not permitting the sale of mortgages to other entities is more important.

Do you oppose a $15 national minimum wage?

I think 15 might well be too high. At some point the minimum wage would cut into employment. 15 would be the highest (in adjusted dollars) it has ever been. I am not sure that some small town in a low cost locale needs a minimum wage that high.

Do you support the death penalty?

No, so I disagree with her on that.

Do you support a no-fly zone being impose in Syria?

I honestly don't know. I have no idea if that idea is wise or not.

Do you support sending in Special Operations forces in Syria?

I don't see a problem with this provided they are training and not fighting in their own right.

Do you support arming the Syrian rebels fighting Bashar al-Assad's regime?

To some extent yes. I think we should find moderate, non ISIS people to arm to serve as a counter weight to ISIS in the anti Assad movement.

Are you an extremely strong supporter of Israel, and feel that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel should be condemned?

First, I think Bernie and Martin also agree with her on this and so do I.

Do you support staking out a maximalist position on Iranian nuclear enrichment, which effectively opens the door to military intervention?

She supports Obama's deal as does Bernie as do I.

Do you oppose marijuana legalization across the U.S.?

No, and neither does she. She has said that we should wait to see what happens in the states which did legalize. I do disagree with her on the waiting but she isn't opposed.

Do you oppose making public universities completely debt-free and tuition-free?

She favors making them debt free and I do oppose tuition free unless we make high schools more uniform. I think for kids who go to schools that have no AP classes, few honors classes, and have few people able to go to a decent college to pay taxes so the upper middle class can pay nothing at all for their educations is quite unfair. I also wonder if the tuition free status will require European style filtering of college admissions which would disproportionately affect minorities and the poor to the benefit of the white and middle class.

Do you support the 1996 Clinton-Gingrich welfare reforms?

Some yes and some no. I do think there should be work requirements and school requirements, I oppose the block grant aspect.

Do you strongly support the use of hydraulic fracking?

No, and I would like to see where she does.

Are you a support of the PATRIOT ACT, bulk data collections by the NSA, and feel that Edward Snowden is a criminal and a traitor who as made the U.S. more unsafe, and whose actions have helped terrorists?

This is a compound question. Patriot Act mostly no. I do think some amount of cooperation between agencies inside and outside the US was needed. The collection of data no. Snowden we don't know yet if they did or didn't. I do think he broke the law.

Do you support the overzealous prosecution of whistleblowers?

I am sure you can find a link of her supporting this in these exact words.

Do you support making flag burning a felony?

No, but the issue was moot then and is moot now baring an Amendment.

On June 17, 2014, Hillary Clinton expressed her desire to deport child refugees from Central America: “We have to send a clear message: Just because your child gets across the border doesn’t mean your child gets to stay,” Clinton said. Do you agree with her?

Frankly, something needs to be done to deter parents from sending unaccompanied children here. It is dangerous for them to be making that journey. I could see letting them in for a time but the expectation should be that they go back from whence they came or at least get put with relatives here.

Do you support an increase in the H-1B visa limit? (thanks antigop for the catch!)

My problem with those visas isn't the number, its the way the program is run. There should be real requirements to exhaust the possibility of finding an American worker. I have no idea what her position on that is.



I will note that this post took an immense amount of time to produce. I do expect a real response to it.