What am I? Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or Independent?

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These are my position:
Abortion: I am pro life.

Capital punishment: I am against it.

At least you aren't being blatantly inconsistent. But if your rationale for being pro-life is religious, I'd like to see what part of Scripture (maybe quote the relevant Bible verses?) that you believe explicitly support this.

And if you are against capital punishment for economic reasons (since it actually costs more than imprisonment), then I'd ask why you are not for abortion.

Gay Marriage: Indifferent....What ever the people decide.

Are you indifferent to interracial marriage being allowed?

/is a product of an interracial couple.

Why do you think it is reasonable for consenting adults to even be considered to not be allowed to marry by other adults who have nothing to do with them? If it is because of religious reasons, you should know there are plenty of religious people who support marriage equality (by necessity of the number of people who support gay marriage, there have to be multitudes of religious people supporting it). If you think the people should be able to decide to disallow this, then you are in fact at least infringing on freedom of religion, among other things.

Drugs: should be de-criminalized.

Agreed.

Healthcare: Against Obamacare, Against Single payer, no problem with government building hospitals, hiring/training health care and/or contracting with health care providers to provide health care to anyone who wants it for no cost. However a private health care market should not be restricted.

I'd be somewhat interested in hearing why you're against a single payer system. Seems the obvious best fix we can make to our healthcare system, and has precedence for working well (not perfectly, obviously) in numerous countries.

Safety Nets: Social security, unemployment benefits, food stamps, house assistance, heating assistance, WIC, etc. Should all be eliminated and replaced with a universal basic income.

I'd need to see the details on this. The problem is that, at least from what I'm guessing, all those things would still end up being payed for. In what way would this actually change anything?

Minimum wage: there should be none.

Now THIS I gotta hear explained.

Discrimination laws: people and businesses should be free to discriminate. They should be able to hire and fire whoever they want, when ever they want for any reason.

Why is that? Businesses are part of the society's they're surrounded by. The idea that they are somehow entitled to do whatever they want in terms of hiring and treatment of people in their establishments is a little absurd. The only possible case I can see being made for this is for small businesses in some circumstances, and even that wouldn't seem to justify this.

Subsidies: There should be no subsidies.

Depends. We sure as hell don't need to be subsidizing massively profitable industries which need no help (like oil), who lobby their asses off to manipulate the system for an unnatural advantage to their company.

Military spending: Not opposed to cutting it, but we should have the best military in the world.....hands down.

What is that supposed to mean in terms of justification? Sure, we have the most advanced military around. Being as that's the case, why are we spending more than the next 5 or 6 best militaries COMBINED? Answer: military industrial complex. The fact that we went into Iraq at all (making many of these companies/Dick Cheney's friends ludicrous amounts of money & fucking up the entire region) is a good reason to start trimming it significantly, and changing our completely unsustainable foreign policy.
Anyway long story short, being the best doesn't mean we need to be spending obscene amounts of money trying to control regions of the world.

Environment: Not opposed to a cap and trade system depending on the details. EPA is a net good.

Maybe you aren't lost.

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Regulation: should be minimal.[/quote]

And why is that? Corporations have an inherent incentive to be corrupt. They have a feduciary responsibility to make as much capital as possible. That's why they've gone as far as controlling government officials through legal bribes like campaign donations, and destroying those they don't like by pouring massive amounts of money into elections to ensure one side wins (think Koch brothers, Bloomberg, etc.).

Education: There should be a voucher system.

Why on Earth do you want a voucher system? Educational reform, theory and philosophy have become a recent, big interest of mine.



I'd say you're a conservative who'd consistently vote Republican, except in cases like capital punishment.