GOOOH | Questionnaire

*Will you vote to reduce retirement payments to the "wealthy" or those whose children are wealthy, by at least 50 percent? Wealthy is defined as $11.5m in assets.

*Will you vote to cap the amount of money spent on all types of welfare payments (excluding Social Security & Medicare) to less than 3 percent of federal tax receipts each year.

Will you vote to elect our president with a popular vote, replacing the Electoral College?

Will you vote to allow established churches to manage federal welfare distribution for recipients who agree to use them instead of a government agency?

Will you vote to eliminate all government price and production controls, including abolishment of the minimum wage?

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Will you vote to allow each state to continue drawing its congressional districts, in a partisan manner, as is done today?

If we do not change to a consumption tax, will you vote to establish an indexed Corporate Minimum Tax (CMT) of at least 15 percent, similar to the personal Alternative Minimum Tax, requiring profitable corporations to pay at least that amount (as a percent of revenue), independent of expenses, deductions, and overseas activities?

Will you vote to establish a maximum timeline for all criminal cases, ensuring that court proceedings begin within three months, end within one year, that appeals extend no more than two years through the highest court possible, and that both the defense and prosecution must adhere to the timeline with penalty of contempt of court charges and license revocation if they do not – this includes death penalty cases?

*Will you vote for a balanced budget amendment, with exceptions only for periods of declared war, a declining annual GDP, or in the event of a major natural disaster?

Will you vote to amend the Constitution with a “Law of Common Sense” that requires judges to hold individuals accountable for their actions, particularly when the predominant majority of society would have known better? For example, Exxon would not be held liable if a teenager douses his hair with gasoline and then sets it on fire.

Will you vote to amend the Constitution to make an abortion legal for only the first three months after conception excluding cases of rape, incest or serious risk to the mother’s life?

Will you vote to multiply by ten the prison sentence of those convicted of possessing drugs that are not willing to provide information that leads to the conviction of their supplier?

Do you agree to abide by United Nations recommendations or dictates given to the United States?

Will you vote to eliminate the “by reason of insanity” defense?

Will you vow to not increase income taxes, excepting only during a period of declared war?

Will you vow to have your children attend the public school in the district in which you live?

Will you vote to reduce farm subsidy allocations by at least 25 percent each year you are in office?

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Will you vote to allow those seeking citizenship an opportunity to serve in the military for six years in exchange for citizenship, but ensure that mercenaries make up no more than 10 percent of military personnel?

*Will you vote for a penalty of at least twenty years in prison, on the first offense, for dealers who sell drugs to minors?

Will you vote to fund nuclear power plants to help address our energy needs?

Will you vote to support the right of citizens to bear arms?

Will you vote to allow citizens who are mentally sound, older than their “life expectancy” and terminally ill, to opt for euthanasia?

Will you vote to amend the Constitution with a “law of predominant majority”, which says the “rights” of groups can be denied if they have consistently demonstrated behavior that 95 percent of the population considers unacceptable? For example, 95 percent of the population would likely vote that a public KKK rally should NOT be allowed, overriding the “right” of free speech for that particular group.

Will you vote for a more efficient Guest Worker Program that allows non-U.S. citizens to work in the United States, in a controlled fashion?

Will you vote to exclude a plaintiff’s legal representative from receiving any portion of a punitive award and split the payment between the plaintiff and charity?

Will you vote to limit deployment to 10,000 troops, for a maximum of three years, in any country which we are not at war with and have not been for any of the last ten?

Would you support a law that requires the removal of the bottom 3 percent of teachers in each school district each year

Will you vote against the teaching of religion in public schools, as an elective?

*Will you vote to define marriage as the union between any two people (of legal age)?

Will you vote to limit the total amount of money that any person can inherit in their lifetime, including through trusts and other “loopholes”, to 250 times the median income ($11.5 million)?

Will you vote for lifetime prison terms for those who possess a gun while committing a felonious act?

Would you support a law that requires a graduated pay scale that includes paying the top 25% of teachers double what the bottom 25% earn?

Will you vote for programs to provide vocational training for prisoners in their last year of incarceration, in an attempt to rehabilitate them, limiting the expense to 25 percent of the average cost per prisoners (this would be a $7,500 limit with today’s $30,000 average)?

Will you vote to prevent lawyers from knowingly misrepresenting the truth to defend their client?

Will you vote to limit medical care for those serving life sentences or on death row to only comforting medication?

Will you vote to support the Kyoto Protocol (as written)?

Will you vote against all financial backing of the oil industry by the government?

Will you vote to allow the movement of prisons and prisoners offshore?

*Will you vote to require that all students demonstrate mastery of the English language, at their grade level, before being allowed to enter the next grade in the public school system, and that those who cannot be required to successfully complete an English immersion class?

Will you vote to amend the Constitution to specifically affirm that we are a nation under God, that God is welcome in all that we do, but no man can be forced to participate in worship at any time or in any way?

Will you vote for allowing individuals to invest a percentage of their retirement benefits in an option of their choice, including mutual funds, bond funds and index funds?

Will you vote to limit the time that any person or family can receive welfare to twenty-four months or less in any five year period?

Will you vote for legislation that declares that those in the country illegally do not have any of the rights granted to citizens of our country, other than the right to humane treatment?

Will you vote for the government to provide free computers to all minors?

Will you vote to allow parents to have a vote for each of their children under the age of eighteen, fathers for their sons and mothers for their daughters?

Will you vote to require that all government programs have a clearly established objective and an end date of no more than ten years from the date of creation?

*Will you vote for government funded Health Care for all Americans under the age of twenty-one?

Will you vote to replace the current tax system with the FairTax as proposed by Linder and Boortz?

Will you vote to amend the Constitution to exclude people with a law degree from serving in the House of Representatives?

Will you vote against government assistance of any kind for any company that does not have at least an A- bond rating (S&P)?

Will you vote to reduce the total number of federal employees by at least 5 percent each year you are in office?

Will you vote to permit the sale of all legal goods over the internet?

Will you vote to allow a panel of doctors to overrule the health care decision of a parent for a critically ill minor? For example, if three doctors recommend chemotherapy as the only viable treatment, but the child or parents oppose, should the doctor’s decision prevail?

Will you vote to remove the worst 3 percent of judges each year, determined by the number of decisions overturned by a higher court? This question targets those who are actively adjudicating rather than interpreting the law, and who show a consistent tendency to rule based on political or personal preference rather than written law.

Will you allow people who entered the country illegally to receive Social Security or other government benefits?

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Will you vote to support legislation that declares the right to life and personal security overrides freedom of speech, and that threats against life will not be tolerated?

*Will you support the ACLU with government funding?

*Will you vote to support the right of every citizen to carry a concealed weapon, assuming they can demonstrate basic firearm competence, but excluding those who have been convicted of a felony or deemed to be mentally incompetent?

Will you vote to impose a penalty of life in prison, or death, for anyone convicted of selling drugs to a minor, excepting only to reduce the sentence to twenty years if information is provided that leads to the conviction of their supplier?

Will you vote for a law that says under no circumstances should the life of a man or his home be jeopardized at the expense of any plant or animal, regardless of the situation?

As long as the federal government remains involved in the education system, will you vote to give vouchers to students so that they can attend the school of their choice (including home schooling)?

Will you vote to only apply the Endangered Species Act to animals that are larger in mass than a golf ball (i.e., eliminate protection for species such as salamanders, crickets and spiders)?

Will you vote for the establishment of a government program to facilitate the design of an alternative Transportation System, developed by private companies who can propose solutions that utilize cleaner, more efficient, fuels (such as fuel cells), is not dependent on a foreign country, and can begin deployment within ten years?

Will you vote to reduce total expenditures on government programs by at least 5 percent each year you are in office?

Will you vote to formally establish English as the national language, and require its exclusive use in all public institutions and on all public material?

Will you vote to terminate all medical litigation by creating a separate account, funded by a 2 percent take of all medical procedures, that will be used to compensate patients or their families when the medical system fails?

Will you vote to fund the development of fuel cell technology beyond all others?

Will you vote to fine employers who hire illegal immigrants not approved by a guest worker program 3 percent or more of their gross income?

Will you vote to create a law that limits the number of immigrants who can become citizens in any single year to one percent or less of the population (that would be approximately three million immigrants this year)?

*Will you vote for life in prison or the death penalty, on the first offense, for rapists and child molesters?

Will you vote to require annual reductions in total “greenhouse” emissions by at least 5 percent year over year?

Will you vote to process all people who commit a crime against a U.S. citizen who are not U.S. citizens in military tribunals instead of the U.S. legal system? (Effectively declaring they do not have the same rights as our citizens.)

Will you vote to limit the amount of foreign aid provided to any one country, in any year, to a maximum of 10,000 times the median income ($460 million), and to only allow a country to receive funds for a maximum of two years in any five year period, excepting those nations in a declared war with a foreign enemy or a genocidal situation?

Will you vote to support states' rights over federal rights at least 90 percent of the time?

Will you vote to limit the legal fees a plaintiff’s legal representative can receive to one hundred times the amount a plaintiff in the case receives? As an example, if a plaintiff receives $10,000, the combined legal fees could not exceed one million dollars.

Will you vote to eliminate the federal Department of Education and vote for a plan to return all authority to the states over a period of four years or less?

Will you vote to limit foreign aid to ten or less countries in any year?

Will you vote to establish a .xxx Internet domain (e.g., www.notforkids.xxx) and to impose steep fines and significant jail time for all sites that provide access to pornographic material outside of this domain?

*Will you vote to allow a defendant or claimants personal history be admitted as evidence during a trial so that we focus more on protecting the innocent rather than the “possibly” guilty?

Will you vote to decrease total foreign aid contributions to match the average contributions of the leading countries in the world in absolute dollars: Britain ($4.9b), Germany ($5.3b), France ($5.5b), China ($0), Russia ($0), Australia ($1.0b), Canada ($1.0b), and Japan ($9.9b), or approximately $3.5 billion per year ($27.6b / 8)?

Will you vote to require those who have entered our country illegally to, when caught, work on a government project without pay for one year before being deported? One example of a project could be a wall that separates the United States and Mexico, though all other projects could be considered.

Will you vote for the United States to withdraw from the U.N.?

*Will you vote to cap medical expenditures, paid by the government (e.g. Medicare and National Health care [if we get there]; does not apply to care for military personnel) in any five year period for any one person, to 25 times the median income (approximately $1.1 million dollars)?

Will you vote to permit religious activities on local, state, and federal property (such as schools, libraries, and municipal buildings), at the discretion of the members of each site?

Will you vote to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by at least 5 percent year over year each year you are in office?

Will you vote for term limits of four years (two terms) or less for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives?

Will you vote to amend the Constitution to make abortion illegal at all times, from the moment of conception, except under specific circumstances such as rape, severe birth defects, incest, or threats to the mother’s life? This would include making "the Pill" and the newer "morning-after pill" illegal.

Will you vote to remove juveniles from their parent(s) after the juvenile's third arrest, sending them to live in a boot camp that focuses on education and discipline?

Will you vow to support a completely free press at all times?

Will you vote to amend the Constitution to state that guiding principles should always override technicalities and extremist groups?

Will you vote to support the death penalty in cases of murder?

Will you vote to privatize government initiatives, including at least one of the following: national parks, highways, mail, licensing or the airwaves?

Will you vote to require that only the Constitution and the laws of the United States be considered when deciding cases or writing opinions, in effect preventing judges from applying the “standards” of international behavior?

Will you vote to legalize marijuana?

Will you vote against a federal budget that includes any item whose benefit is primarily for a single state (e.g., a bridge in Alaska, or a levee in Louisiana)?

Will you vote for a presidential line item veto?

*Will you vote to only grant citizenship to newborns who have at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen?

Will you vote for a National Health Care System, funded with tax dollars and controlled by the federal government, that provides health care to every American citizen?

Will you vote to reduce the cost per inmate, currently estimated at almost $30,000 per year, by 10 percent year over year, until the number is less than the national average spent on public education?

Will you vote to change the retirement age to sixty-nine immediately, and index the retirement age for those under the age of fifty to “life expectancy” minus five years?

Will you vote to require that birth control pills be made available, for free, to all teenage girls?

Will you vote to amend the Constitution to make abortion legal at all times?

Will you vote to use our military to control our borders and prevent illegal immigration?

Will you vote for the government to provide Health Care vouchers to every American citizen that can be used to purchase health insurance from either the government or a private provider, thus ensuring that every American has access to coverage?

Will you vote for legislation that targets lowering the number of homeless by at least 5 percent each year?

Will you vote to declare that the rights of a person who commits a crime and is subsequently found guilty to have forfeited his rights from the moment his crime was committed until the moment he is released?

Will you vote to limit total military spending to 3 percent of GDP, excluding periods when our nation is imminently at risk of war with another country or a recognized military unit (i.e., claiming we are at war with terrorists is not the same as being at war with another country)?

Will you vote to open the borders and allow any person wishing to enter the country to do so without restriction?

*Will you vote to amend the Constitution to re-establish and re-clarify equal rights for all over special rights for a few (e.g. prisoners, seniors, students, gays, and minorities)?

Will you vote to set congressional pay to four times the median income, index the rate, and replace the congressional pension with a standard 401k retirement plan?

Will you support the right of lawyers to use whatever means necessary to defend a client, including concealing information and using "technicalities," as long as they do not violate a written law?