Thank you for your opening statements, candidates! We will now move on to round two of the debate!
Candidates, you have 48 hours to answer the following questions!
Economic Policy:
> In 2018, 38 million Atlasians lived in poverty. How can this be addressed?
> Technological changes are constantly reshaping the economy. How should policy be adapted to deal with these changes?
> What changes, if any, would you like to see to the tax code?
> From PSOL: What is your opinion on the Federal Gas Tax Reform Act? Would you support its passage and do you see similar tiered sales taxes as being a good measure to appropriately tax individuals based on their parallel “felt” taxes?
Social Issues:
> From S019: What are your views on stricter gun control?
> From S019: What are your views on abortion?
> What would be your administration's policies on immigration?
> How will your administration approach foreign policy?
Game/Reform Issues:
> What is your view on how the relationship between regional and federal government should be?
> There have been many complaints about the lack of stories from the GM. What are your thoughts on this and the role of Game Engine more broadly?
> What are your views on campaign finance reform?
Individual Questions:
> To 1184AZ and ReaganClinton20XX: You are both members of the Federalist Party and presumably you will be facing eachother in a primary. Why should Federalists and Conservatives vote to nominate you?
> To 1184AZ: In your campaign intro, you spoke about cutting "red tape." Can you expand on this?
1. Rather than slapping a band-aid on the problem with more government handouts, we should do more to provide incentives for job creation in growing industries such as tech fields or clean energy, and do more to promote our younger generations to attend trade schools, where many fields are desperately looking for workers, which will not only provide them with higher paying jobs, but will tackle the growing concern we are facing with the rising student debt. People want a reason to work and live off of what they earn, not what was given to them.
2. We should see these technological advancements as a welcome change that we can easily adapt to. Rather than sit idly by and let people lose jobs, we should look at the job opportunities this new era will create, and work with industry leaders to get these people back into the workforce. While we may have fewer opportunities for cashiers, assembly line workers, or floor cleaners, we will have a great need for programmers, tech support workers, repairmen, etc. It is up to us as a nation to improvise, adapt, and overcome these new changes to our society, and to our economy.
3. We would first off repeal the federal carbon tax which will significantly lower fuel costs for all Atlasians. In addition we will lower the small business and corporate tax rate which will attract more investment and business into Atlasia. Small businesses are the bedrock of our economy and need tax relief to help grow their companies which will help further grow the economy and help stimulate job creation.
4. I am opposed to this bill and would support full repeal.We need to work to lower gas taxes for all Atlasians and this bill is just a further unneeded expansion of federal bureaucracy into Atlasia.
5. As President I will be a strong defender of our constitution rights to gun ownership while opposing ineffective and unconstitutional items such as a gun registry, gun licensing and bans on certain types of guns. Instead we need to look at the root causes of gun violence in order to help solve the issue of gun violence.
5. While I am personally and politically pro life we believe that it is best to leave the issue of abortion up to the regions to deal with. However my administration would defend region wide abortion bans if they are taken to court.
6. Together we will work to increase our border security efforts while easing the legal immigration process in order to lesson the desire to enter the county illegally. We will further support a plan to end birthright citizenship and increase the removal efforts of illegal immigrants residing in our country.
7. While we shouldn't go out of our way to make enemies out of our allies, nor should we go out of our way to cause more strained relationships with other nations, it would be best to truly take a non-interventionist approach to foreign policy, as our involvement around the world has caused just about as many (and some may argue more) issues than they have solved. We should not continue to act as the world's police, especially when we still have many problems to address at home.
8. The federal government should not interfere into regional affairs unless it believes a constitutional right is being violated. Together we are willing to work with regions on expand region rights on healthcare, education and various moral issues. This will help stimulate activity at the regional level in order to build stronger regions.
9. The GM should be responsible to give weekly or by weekly stories in order to stimulate activity and create discussion. In addition the GM should be responsible for assessing the effect of legislation on the game and our country. If elected I would sit down with the current GM department to discuss the current activity crisis and ensure it is resolved.
10. Yes I fully support banning both campaign and union donations while overturning citizens v united.
11. Together we have the right skills and experiences to be an effective executive team.We have a Conservative platform that will bring real change to Atlasia while challenging the Atlasia consensus not just giving into what might be the popular thing but what the right thing to do is.
12. We support cutting unnecessary regulations and obstacles that not only stand in the way of success for the average Atlasian and their businesses, but also give too much power to the Federal government. We should be creating an environment where any Atlasian can be successful and live their lives to the fullest, not pushing them to the ground and kicking them with harmful, useless, and often complex regulations that shouldn't exist in the first place. BB
