2000 National Political Awareness Test: on Budget & Economy

Alan Keyes: More $ for defense, NASA, parks; less for Ag, educ, arts

Keyes supports the following spending levels:
• Greatly Increase Funding
  • Defense
• Slightly Increase Funding
  • NASA
  • National Parks
  • Scientific research
• Maintain Funding Status
  • Law enforcement
  • Medical research
• Slightly Decrease Funding
  • Transportation and Highway Infrastructure
• Greatly Decrease Funding
  • Agricultural programs
  • Arts funding
  • Education
  • Environmental programs
  • International aid
  • Welfare

Alan Keyes: Enforce spending limits to balance the budget

Keyes’ priorities for spending any anticipated federal budget surplus:
• Defense - Highest Priority
• Education - Not a Priority
• Federal debt reduction - Medium Priority
• Medicare - Medium Priority
• Social Security - Medium Priority
• Tax cuts - High Priority
• Keyes supports enforcing the spending limits agreed to in 1997 by the President and Congress to balance the budget

Gary Bauer: More $ for defense & police; less $ for welfare & arts

Bauer supports the following spending levels:
• Slightly Increase Funding
  • Defense
  • Law enforcement
  • NASA
  • National Parks
• Maintain Funding Status
  • Agricultural programs
  • Education
  • Medical research
  • Scientific research
  • Transportation and Highway Infrastructure
• Slightly Decrease Funding
  • Environmental programs
  • International aid
  • Welfare
• Eliminate Funding
  • Arts funding

Gary Bauer: Support balanced budget spending limits

Gary Bauer: Spend surplus on defense, debt, & Medicare; not education

For spending any anticipated federal budget surplus, Bauer sets a high priority for:
• Defense
• Federal debt reduction
• Medicare
• Social Security
• Tax cuts

Bauer sets a low priority for:
• Education

Harry Browne: Decrease defense & police $; eliminate everything else

Browne would eliminate funding for the following:
• Agricultural programs
• Arts funding
• Education
• Environmental programs
• International aid
• Medical research
• NASA
• National Parks
• Scientific research
• Transportation and Highway Infrastructure
• Welfare.

Browne would greatly decrease funding for the following:
• Defense
• Law enforcement.

John Hagelin: More $ for environment; crime prevention; health care

Hagelin sets the following spending priorities:
• Greatly Increase Funding for:
  • Environmental programs
  • Effective crime prevention
  • Proven preventive health care
• Slightly Increase Funding for:
  • Education
  • NASA
  • Scientific research
  • Transportation and Highway Infrastructure
• Maintain Funding Status for:
  • Agricultural programs
  • Arts funding
  • International aid
  • Law enforcement
  • Medical research
  • National Parks
  • Welfare
• Slightly Decrease Funding for:
  • Defense
• Spending priorities in general:
  • Highest Priority for Federal debt reduction
  • Highest Priority for Tax cuts
  • High Priority for Medicare
  • High Priority for Social Security
  • Medium Priority for Education
  • Low Priority for Defense
• Supports enforcing the spending limits agreed to in 1997 by the President and Congress to balance the budget.

Orrin Hatch: More $ for defense, research, Ag, Education, police

Hatch supports the following spending levels:
• Greatly Increase Funding
  • Defense
  • Medical research
• Slightly Increase Funding
  • Agricultural programs
  • Education
  • Law enforcement
  • Scientific research
• Maintain Funding Status
  • Arts funding
  • Environmental programs
  • International aid
  • NASA
  • National Parks
  • Transportation and Highway Infrastructure
  • Welfare

Orrin Hatch: Balance the budget; but high priority to all spending

Hatch sets the following priorities for spending the budget surplus:
• Highest Priority
  • Medicare
  • Social Security
• High Priority
  • Defense
  • Education
  • Federal debt reduction
  • Tax cuts
• Hatch would support enforcing the spending limits agreed to in 1997 by the President and Congress to balance the budget