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Nevada Families Voter Guide Candidate Questionnaires
We are now in the process of preparing candidate questionnaires which we send to candidates and then publish their responses in the non-partisan 2008 Nevada Families Voter Guide. Below you will find the Draft of the questionnaire for State Senate and Assembly candidates.
It is very difficult to be an informed voter. Nevada Families Voter Guide provides an invaluable service by asking the candidates the hard questions for you. Even when they choose not to respond to the questionnaire it tells you, as a voter, a lot about what they think. We hope, as in the past, you will support our Nevada Families Voter Guide. We published 50,000 copies last election and distributed them statewide, as well as, publishing the candidate responses on our website www.nevadafamilies.org
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Draft Senate/Assembly Questionnaire
1) Will you support/sponsor the proposed “Nevada Taxpayers and Citizen Protection Act of 2009” which is similar to the laws already passed in Arizona and Oklahoma. The new law insures that we have state enforcement of the laws on illegal immigration? See 1 page Summary and full 32-page bill click here
2) Only American citizens should be voting in our elections. Will you support/sponsor legislation to insure that state ballots are printed only in English?
3) Will you support/sponsor legislation to stop illegal aliens from receiving Millennium Scholarships and other Nevada taxpayer-funded services?
4) The US Congress passed the REAL ID Act of 2005, an un-funded mandate, turning state drivers licenses into de facto national ID cards creating a national ID system. REAL ID requires an RFID chip be placed in state drivers licenses. Numerous states have opposed this mandate citing privacy and liberty concerns. Will you oppose using state drivers licenses as de facto national ID cards?
5) Will you oppose raising any taxes or fees and instead insist that government live within it’s current budget?
6) Do you support the unabridged individual Constitutional right of Citizens to Keep and Bear Arms?
7) Will you support laws and regulations providing that federal officers (like the BLM) can only exercise the powers of a peace officer in this state if they are specifically authorized by state law; otherwise they must contract with the County Sheriff?
8) Do you support freedom of choice in health care, including the fundamental right to not be forced to receive certain vaccines or medications? --continued--
Draft Candidate Questionnaire Continued:
9) Arizona recently passed an opt-in provision for any mental health screening for children in the government schools. This insures parents will have the right to decide the health care for their own children. Will you support/sponsor an opt-in provision for any mental health screening in the schools?
10) The right to petition is protected in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and in the Nevada Constitution Articles 10 and 19. However, recent Nevada Legislatures have passed numerous provisions, which make it nearly impossible for any initiative to make it to the ballot. Will you sponsor/support the restoration of the people’s right to petition, which will remove legislatively imposed roadblocks to petitioning?
11) Do you support a parent’s right to choose government, charter, private, religious, or home schooling for their children?
12) The elimination of the Electoral College would make irrelevant the votes of Americans in about 25 smaller states like Nevada because candidates would focus on piling up votes in large-population states. Will you oppose any measure to eliminate the Electoral College? See article at: http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/2007/dec07/psrdec07.html
13) Currently, there is no meaningful way for citizens to hold accountable government officials/employees who violate the law or rights of citizens. Would you support/sponsor legislation lowering the number of signatures required by NRS 6.132 from 25% to 10% of the registered voters in a county in order to convene a Grand Jury?
14) Invasive campaign reporting laws discourage people from running for office and violate free speech by empowering government to monitor political campaigns. Senator Townsend said on May 7, 2003 concerning mandatory campaign finance disclosure, "At some point, you are not going to get anyone to run for office anymore! I am terrified.” Do you support/sponsor making all campaign contribution and spending reports 100% voluntary?
15) The federal government has usurped control of 91% of Nevada’s land. Do you support maintaining Nevada’s current criminal jurisdiction over these lands?
16) Do you support PISTOL (The Peoples Initiative to Stop the Taking of Our Land) ballot question which stops government 's abuse of eminent domain by prohibiting the taking of property from one private property owner to sell or give to another private property owner? (see copy of PISTOL at www.sos.state.nv.us )
17) In 2002, 63% of Nevadan’s voted to place in Nevada’s Constitution a provision to keep marriage only between a man and a woman. Marriage brings with it certain recognition and benefits. Will you oppose any form of domestic partnership, civil unions, or other efforts to grant the benefits of marriage to same-sex or unmarried partners?
18) Will you support laws to protect from conception to natural death the right to life of unborn babies, the elderly, and the handicapped?
19) State administrative courts deny people the Constitutional Right to Trial by Jury (Nev. Constitution Art., Sec. 3). Will you support/sponsor legislation to restore the right to trial by jury as an appeal from administrative courts to protect citizens from the abuses of bureaucratic administrative courts?
20) The National Animal Identification System (NAIS) will require RFID chips for all agricultural animals and pets. It will allow search and seizure for animal control without search warrants. Will you oppose any state legislation or regulation, which would allow state agencies to police the NAIS system?
21) What is the proper role of government? ___________________________________________________
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Please contact Janine Hansen at 775-397-6859 or Lynn Chapman at 775-356-0105.
A New Argument About Immigration
by National President of Eagle Forum Phyllis Schlafly, May 28, 2008
Many arguments, pro and con, about how to deal with illegal aliens have been
passionately debated over the past couple of years, but there are still other
arguments that need public exposure. Mark Krikorian presents a new argument in
his forthcoming book called "The
New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegal."
The pro-more-immigration crowd argues that today's immigrants are just like immigrants of a century ago: poor people looking for a better life who are expected to advance in our land of opportunity. Krikorian's new argument is that while today's immigrants may be like earlier ones, the America they come to is so very different that our previous experience with immigrants is practically irrelevant.
The essential difference between the two waves of immigrants was best summed up by the Nobel Prize-winning advocate of a free market, Milton Friedman. He said, "It's just obvious that you can't have free immigration and a welfare state."
The term "welfare state" does not just mean handouts to the non-working. Our welfare state encompasses dozens of social programs that provide benefits to the "working poor," i.e., people working for wages low enough that they pay little or no income taxes.
Immigrants of the previous generation were expected to earn their own living, pay taxes like everybody else, learn our language, love America, and assimilate into our culture. Today's immigrants likewise come here for jobs not welfare.
During those prior major waves of immigration, the United States didn't have a welfare state. Native-born Americans survived the Great Depression of the 1930s without a welfare state.
The Social Security retirement system was established only in 1935. Most other agencies that redistribute cash and costly benefits from taxpayers to non-taxpayers started with Lyndon Johnson's Great Society in the late 1960s.
Today's low-wage immigrants and lower-wage illegals can't earn what it costs to live in modern America, so they supplement with means-tested taxpayer benefits. And many immigrants don't learn our language or assimilate into American culture because of the multicultural diversity taught in our schools and encouraged in our society.
Today's immigrants fit the profile of the people who benefit from our welfare state: the working poor with large families. Krikorian sets forth some dismal figures.
About 30 percent of all immigrants in the U.S. workforce in 2005 lacked a high school education, which is four times the rate for native-born Americans. Among the largest group of working-age immigrants, the Mexicans, 62 percent have less than a high-school education, which means they work low-wage jobs.
Nearly half of immigrant households, 45 percent, are in or near poverty compared with 29 percent of native-headed households. Among Mexicans living in the United States, nearly two-thirds live in or near the government's definition of poverty.
Costly social benefits provided to the working poor include Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (now called TANF, formerly AFDC), food stamps, school lunches, Medicaid, WIC (nutrition for Women, Infants and Children), public housing, and Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is one of the most expensive parts of income redistribution. Twice as many immigrant households (30 percent) qualify for this cash handout as native-headed households (15 percent).
Health care is another huge cost. Nearly half of immigrants are either uninsured or on Medicaid, which is nearly double the rate for native-born families. Federal law requires hospitals to treat all comers to emergency rooms, even if uninsured and unable to pay.
Hospitals try to shift the costs onto their paying patients, and when the hospitals exhaust their ability to do this, they close their doors. In Los Angeles, 60 hospitals have closed their emergency rooms over the past decade, which imposes another kind of cost.
Immigration accounts for nearly all the growth in elementary and secondary school enrollment over the past generation. The children of immigrants now comprise 19 percent of the school-age population and 21 percent of the preschool population.
The Heritage Foundation estimated that in order to reduce government payments to the average low-skill household to a level equal to the taxes it pays, "it would be necessary to eliminate Social Security and Medicare, all means-tested welfare, and to cut expenditures on public education roughly in half." Obviously, that is not going to happen.
Attempts to limit welfare eligibility for illegal aliens by provisions added to the 1996 welfare reform law, SSI, food stamps, Medicaid and TANF all failed. Krikorian concludes that "Walling immigrants off from government benefits once we've let them in is a fantasy."
As Americans are pinched between falling real estate values and the inflation of necessities such as gasoline, they are entitled to know how their tax dollars are being spent. The big bite that social benefits to immigrants (one-third of whom are illegal) takes out of taxpayers' paychecks should be factored into any debate about immigration or amnesty policy.
Read this article online: http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2008/may08/08-05-28.html
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