THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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| SAM BROWNBACK | PAUL DAVIS | KEEN UMBEHR | PAT ROBERTS | GREG ORMAN | RANDALL BATSON | LYNN JENKINS | MARGIE WAKEFIELD | CHRIST CLEMMON |
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| • Supports small businesses • Continue to provide support for the aviation industry | • More investment in workforce training • Proposing putting a halt to income tax rates until school funding is restored | • Will fight for legislation that reduces income and compensating use taxes • Plans to impose budget cuts on state board and on agency expenditures • Fund programs beneficial to low-income residents | Supports the aviation industry which accounts for more than 22,000 Kansas jobs, as a boost to the economy | • Hopes to eliminate barriers to job creation • Will lower the burden on employers so they can afford to hire more workers | • Wants to eliminate income taxes • Supports the legalization and taxation of marijuana | • Supports federal tax code and business regulations reform • Believes tax code is too complex, costly and financially consuming | • Will work toward affordable childcare • Wants to keep Social Security public | • Opposes government's war on drugs, citing it as a major waste of resources • Supports smaller government budgets, fair tax rates and union labor |
• Increase per centage of state funding that goes into colleges • Hopes for 80 percent of Kansas adults to have a college degree or technical certificate within the next four years
• Against budget cuts for educational institutions • Wants to prioritize funding public education
• Believes Kansas colleges and universities should seek contributions from alumni to hold down tuition rather than looking to Kansas taxpayers
• Believes decisions affecting education should be decided locally, not by the federal government
• Believes in federal student loan system reform
• Believes in elimination of the Department of Education
• Supports increased funding of private education but does not support state funding of college educations
Authored legislation to reform state 529 College Savings plan designed to help families save for college education
• Wants affordable higher education by managing tuition and student loan rates
• Supportive of university research projects
• Hopes to integrate college graduates into the economy immediately while making debt more manageable
• Supports fiscal transparency so people know where the university's money is used
Hopes that within the next four years 85 percent of high school graduates will have joined the military, received a technical certificate or been accepted into a higher education institution
Supports the state's military installations
Reduce spending of every state agency by 3 percent over the next four years
Supports military spending for strong national military
Restructuring of Veterans' Affairs rules so veterans who have had to wait months for care or live in rural areas can receive treatment at critical access facilities
Supports withdrawing soldiers from foreign soil
Supports local military spending and training
Belleves the U.S. should decrease military spending
Supports affordable accessible health care but Obamacare was too far-reaching
Supports state adoption of Direct Primary Care Implementation of DPC model would potentially save SI billion per year
Strongly opposes the Affordable Care Act and is against federal involvement in health care
Does not support the Affordable Care Act
Opposes expanding Obamacare
• Opposes President Obama's healthcare reforms • Will allow purchasing of insurance from across state lines
• Supports Medicaid expansion • Supports dependents staying on parental health care coverage until age 26
Does not support the Affordable Care Act
Opposals
Decision for the courts
Approves
Opposes
Sees it passing in the future
Decision for religious institutions
Decision for the courts
Approves
Approves
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