Block, SkipCaptcha, Automoderated users, edit
2,415
edits
Changes
→Issues supported: supplemental summation
None are his own. All are cut and pasted from the traditional radical leftwing playbook. Some of these are:<ref>[https://peteforamerica.com/issues Pete for America>Issues] Retrieved May 20, 2019</ref>
None are his own. All are cut and pasted from the traditional radical leftwing playbook. Some of these are:<ref>[https://peteforamerica.com/issues Pete for America>Issues] Retrieved May 20, 2019</ref>
*Affordable abortion and the "right" to it for all women who choose to murder their child. Even to supporting freedom to abort a child during final three months of their pregnancies, at least if necessary due to medical reasons. (According to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, most abortions that take place after 20 weeks are performed for reasons other than the health of the mother or child.<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/news/buttigieg-defends-womens-right-to-third-trimester-abortions-who-gets-to-draw-the-line] Buttigieg Defends Women’s Right to Third-Trimester Abortions: ‘Who Gets to Draw The Line?’</ref> And the total number of late-term abortions is more than seven times the combined deaths from mass shootings in America since 1966.<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/19/buttigiegs-third-trimester-abortion-mass-shootings] Buttigieg’s '1%' Of Third Trimester Abortions In A Year Is Seven Times More Than All Mass Shooting Deaths Since 1966</ref>)
*Affordable abortion and the "right" to it for all women who choose to murder their child. Even to supporting freedom to abort a child during final three months of their pregnancies, at least if necessary due to medical reasons. (According to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, most abortions that take place after 20 weeks are performed for reasons other than the health of the mother or child.<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/news/buttigieg-defends-womens-right-to-third-trimester-abortions-who-gets-to-draw-the-line] Buttigieg Defends Women’s Right to Third-Trimester Abortions: ‘Who Gets to Draw The Line?’</ref> And the total number of late-term abortions is more than seven times the combined deaths from mass shootings in America since 1966.<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/19/buttigiegs-third-trimester-abortion-mass-shootings] Buttigieg’s '1%' Of Third Trimester Abortions In A Year Is Seven Times More Than All Mass Shooting Deaths Since 1966</ref>)
Buttigieg believes that being unconcerned about God's creation "is a sin" when discussing greenhouse gases; however, Buttigieg believes that being unconcerned about God's creation ''is not a sin'' when discussing babies in the womb.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/12/peter-buttigieg-loves-gods-creation-rainbow-not-baby/</ref>
*Abolishing the death penalty. End mandatory minimum sentences for certain offenses. Eliminate the private prison industry.
*Abolishing the death penalty. End mandatory minimum sentences for certain offenses. Eliminate the private prison industry.
*Gun Control: establishing a nationwide gun licensing system. The use of "Extreme Risk Protection Orders" since "two-thirds of all gun deaths are suicides." Holding the gun industry accountable for the misuse of guns by owners.
*Gun Control: establishing a nationwide gun licensing system. The use of "Extreme Risk Protection Orders" since "two-thirds of all gun deaths are suicides." Holding the gun industry accountable for the misuse of guns by owners.
"Security" is a major theme of his position page, being mentioned 27 times, from Climate security to economic security to security from intimidation, while the effects of the Federal Equality Act would use intimidation via penalizing and prosecuting individuals or business such as in good conscience refuse to be complicit in affirming homosexual relations, imposing economic sanctions or worse on such.<ref>Thomas F. Farr (May 16, 2019) [https://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2019/05/16/the_equality_act_will_hurt_religious_freedom_110219.html The Equality Act Will Harm Religious Freedom] RealClearReligion.org. Retrieved Mon, 02/10/20</ref><ref>https://peacebyjesuscom.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-proposed-federal-equality-act.html</ref> Such attacks on the security of those of religious conscience has been seen under the implementation of the European Union equality law.<ref>[http://www.equineteurope.org/IMG/pdf/Religion_and_Belief_Report_merged_.pdf] Equality Law in Practice</ref>
"Security" is a major theme of his position page, being mentioned 27 times, from Climate security to economic security to security from intimidation, while the effects of the Federal Equality Act would use intimidation via penalizing and prosecuting individuals or business such as in good conscience refuse to be complicit in affirming homosexual relations, imposing economic sanctions or worse on such.<ref>Thomas F. Farr (May 16, 2019) [https://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2019/05/16/the_equality_act_will_hurt_religious_freedom_110219.html The Equality Act Will Harm Religious Freedom] RealClearReligion.org. Retrieved Mon, 02/10/20</ref><ref>https://peacebyjesuscom.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-proposed-federal-equality-act.html</ref> Such attacks on the security of those of religious conscience has been seen under the implementation of the European Union equality law.<ref>[http://www.equineteurope.org/IMG/pdf/Religion_and_Belief_Report_merged_.pdf] Equality Law in Practice</ref>
===Oppose/eliminate and support/spend===
A shorter version of his positions can be summed up as follows:
Oppose/Eliminate:
*Limits on abortion (at least most).
*The death penalty.
*Cash bail reform.
*Private prisons.
*Illegal entry from being a criminal offense.
*Marijuana possession being unlawful.
*Past marijuana convictions.
*New oil and gas leases on federal land.
*Offshore drilling.
*The Electoral College.
*For-profit charter schools.
*Students acquiring debt.
*Unlimited spending in politics.
*Patent protections on some drugs.
*U.S. troops being overseas from America's post-9/11 wars.
*The 2017 corporate cut.
*Tariffs to pressure countries
*Rejoining the Pacific Rim agreement
Support/Spend:
*Medicare for All who want it.
*Rent subsidies.
*430 billion in affordable housing
*Raising the federal minimum wage to $15/hour.
*Broad paid family and medical leave up to 12 weeks.
*Increasing income of teachers.
*Canceling student loans in exchange for gov. service or training programs.
*100% increase in DOT discretionary grant program to $2 billion per year.
*Injecting $165 billion into the Highway Trust Fund.
*Replacing gas tax with fees based on how many miles are traveled (driving tax).
*Building two high-speed rail corridors.
*$5 trillion worth of changes to the tax code, including a wealth tax.
*Raising the estate tax.
*Changing the capital gains tax.
*Expand Earned Income Tax Credit (supplements the earnings of low-wage workers).
*Raising the top individual tax rate to 49.9 percent.
*Taxing carbon emissions.
*Paying farmers to sequester carbon in their soil.
*Farm workers unionization.
*Minimum wage and overtime pay for workers on small farms, livestock production.
*Granting voting rights for ex-cons.
*Granting citizenship for immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.
*Requiring universal background checks for gun purchases.
*Requiring permit-to-purchase program to include ammunition.
*Creating new federal ban on assault-style weapons, and voluntary buyback for such.
*Nuclear power.
*Increase defense spending.
*Increase power of Federal Trade Commission.
*Open-ended federal funding for rural broadband.
*Wi-Fi on school buses. Politico (February 21, 2020)<ref>[https://www.politico.com/2020-election/candidates-views-on-the-issues/pete-buttigieg/ Pete Buttigieg] Retrieved February 25, 2020</ref>
===African American opposition===
===African American opposition===