To which American political faction do you belong?

This quiz shall assist you in figuring out which faction of the two major political parties you find yourself most aligned with on the basis of the issues that are the most commonly discussed in the year 2021.

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How do you support reforming the US's healthcare system?
- Adopt a universal single-payer system of healthcare with a generous benefit package, no cost-sharing or premiums, and no duplicative private insurance health insurance plans. This plan is known as Medicare-for-All.
- Support a public option with income based premiums and cost-sharing that would, over a ten-year period, ensure universal coverage via the auto-enrollment of Medicare and Medicaid recipients as well as the uninsured and those on private Marketplace plans. Those with employer-sponsored insurance would be able to retain their plans or purchase into the public option.
- Retain the current mixture of private group and non-group plans as well as Medicare and Medicaid, but introduce a public option onto the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces as well as increasing premium and cost-sharing reduction subsidies to increase the affordability of coverage.
- Repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act while retaining health insurance Marketplaces, albeit with less generous age-based subsidies, and replacing the Medicaid expansion with block grants to the states that would grow more slowly than current Medicaid spending.
- Repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, eliminating the Marketplaces and the Medicaid expansion altogether whilst implementing medical malpractice reform to reduce healthcare spending by reducing medical malpractice suits. In addition, convert both Medicare and Medicaid into premium support programs where recipients would receive flat vouchers to purchase into private non-group plans.
Do you support increasing the minimum wage?
- Increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour over a five-year transition period and index the minimum wage to either inflation or wage growth.
- Increase the minimum wage, albeit to $12 as opposed to $15 an hour. Index the minimum wage to inflation or wage growth.
- Increase the minimum wage to $10 an hour and index it to inflation or wage growth.
- Keep the current federal minimum wage and allow states and cities to raise the minimum wage as they please.
What is your position on the child benefit within the American Rescue Plan?
- Extend the child benefit of $3000 per child per year, with a $600 top-up for children under six, and have the IRS administer monthly benefits.
- Support a child benefit of $3000 per child, with a $1200 top-up for children under six. Have Social Security administer monthly benefits and finance the child benefit by reducing spending on the earned income tax credit and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program.
- After 2021, restore the partially refundable child tax credit equal to a maximum of $2000 per child.
What is your position on individual tax reform?
- Extend the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act for those making under $250,000 per year, but otherwise increase taxes for those making above $250,000 a year by taxing capital gains as ordinary income, imposing a top income tax rate of 52 percent on incomes above $10 million, and creating a wealth tax for assets held by the wealthy.
- Extend the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act for those making under $400,000, but restore the pre-TCJA tax rate of 39.6 percent for those making above $400,000 a year and tax capital gains as ordinary income.
- Fully extend the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and further reduce income taxes via a reduction in marginal tax rates and an increase in the earned income tax credit.
- Eliminate most tax deductions and tax credits in order to transition into a single low flat tax rate.
What is your position on corporate tax reform?
- Restore a top corporate income tax rate of 35 percent and impose the tax on all corporate profits worldwide.
- Increase the corporate income tax rate to 28 percent, impose a 15 percent minimum tax on global book income, and impose a per-country minimum tax to move away from a territorial tax system.
- Increase the corporate income tax rate to 25 percent, but otherwise retain the territorial tax system as established by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
- Retain the current corporate income tax rate of 21 percent as was established by the TCJA.
- Reduce the corporate income tax rate down to 15 percent and allow for the full expensing of all corporate investments.
How do you support reforming Social Security?
- Raise both payroll taxes and the net investment income tax to finance a broad-based expansion of Social Security benefits, including a flat increase in monthly benefits for all recipients.
- Keep current Social Security payroll tax rates, but impose those taxes on wages over $400,000 in order to finance targeted increases in benefits to ensure that all recipients who have worked for over 30 years receive a minimum benefit of 125 percent of the Federal Poverty Line.
- Retain the current Social Security program.
- Increase the maximum taxable threshold for Social Security payroll taxes up to 90 percent of wages, reduce benefit growth for the top half of earners, increase the retirement age, and use chained CPI to calculate cost-of-living adjustments. Use any excess revenues to finance a minimum benefit above the Federal Poverty Line.
- Avoid any tax increases through aggressive benefit reductions, such as ending cost-of-living adjustments for higher-income earners or using progressive price indexing to slow down benefit growth for the top 70 percent of earners as well as basing benefit calculations on the top 38 years of wages.
- Allow workers to invest a portion of their payroll taxes into individual retirement accounts that would be placed on a mixture of stock and bond markets.
Do you support a US withdrawal from Afghanistan?
- Yes, the war has lasted for far too long and a US loss was likely regardless of the commitment of forces to the country.
- Yes, but the US should have waited until a direct peace was made with the Taliban to withdraw.
- No, the US should remain committed to the defense of Afghanistan and should retain a small permanent force within the country to continue to stave off a Taliban advance.
What is your position on US trade relations?
- The US should withdraw from its current trade deals and protect domestic industries through tariffs on foreign imports.
- The US should not enter into any trade deals without a guarantee that environmental and labor regulation harmonization occur.
- The US needs to strongly support free trade in the form of the USMCA and the TPP in order to stave off the rising trade influence of China.
How would you address climate change?
- Support a Green New Deal and spend trillions on reducing carbon emissions through building renovations and a transition over to renewables. Additionally, prosecute fossil fuel executives who lied about the effects of climate change decades ago.
- Support a carbon tax to reduce carbon emissions by placing a price on carbon, thereby making increased emissions unprofitable. Rebate most revenues back to taxpayers in the form of flat monthly checks and spend any remaining revenues on increasing subsidies to electric vehicles and solar and wind power generation.
- Oppose any new government mandates on the issue of climate change and let the private sector deal with the issue on its own.
How do you propose reforming policing in the United States?
- Defund the police by transferring funds from law enforcement to social care workers to help deal with the homeless and drug addicts. In addition, support disarming police officers unless they receive special training to possess firearms.
- Oppose defunding the police, but support police reform by increasing funding for training, community policing, and making body camera on officers mandatory.
- Oppose police reforms and allow for law enforcement to do its job in catching criminals.
What is your position on the flow of unauthorized immigrants into the United States?
- Unauthorized immigration should no longer be a criminal offense and all unauthorized immigrants without a criminal record should be granted a pathway to citizenship.
- Grant all unauthorized immigrants without a criminal record a pathway to citizenship and increase the humanitarian standards of detention facilities at the border.
- Grant Dreamers, who are unauthorized immigrants who arrived in the US before the age of 16, a pathway to citizenship in exchange for increased funding for border security.
- End the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and increase funding for border security in the form of increased fencing and a border navy to catch unauthorized immigrants at sea.
- End the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and begin to deport unauthorized immigrants still in the United States while constructing a border wall to prevent additional unauthorized immigration.
What is your position on gun control in the United States?
- Support a requirement that gun owners receive a license to purchase a firearm, impose a mandatory buy-back program for assault-style weapons, and ban all assault-style weapons and handguns.
- Support universal background checks, a federal red-flag law to allow family members to notify the courts of potentially dangerous relatives, a voluntary buy-back program, and a ban on assault-style weapons.
- Support universal background checks and a federal red-flag laws, but oppose a blanket ban on assault-style weapons.
- Oppose all new gun control legislation and protect the right to bear arms within the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights.
What is your position on abortion?
- Abortion should be legal up until birth and should be subsidized by the federal government.
- Retain the Hyde Amendment and support restrictions on late-term abortions while protecting the right to an abortion up to the second trimester.
- Defund Planned Parenthood and prohibit any abortions following a fetus's first heartbeat.
- Defund Planned Parenthood and prohibit all abortions with exceptions for rape, incest, or the health of the mother.
What is your position on the criminalization of cannabis?
- Legalize, tax, and regulate cannabis similarly to tobacco and alcohol.
- Decriminalize the personal possession of cannabis, but don't create a market for its recreational use.
- Only legalize cannabis for medicinal purposes following a prescription from a medical professional.
- Retain current federal laws on cannabis usage and crack down on state efforts to legalize it.
How do you support reforming US electoral laws?
- Pass the For the People Act, which would make universal the option of postal voting without excuses, automatically register voters if they have a driver's license, end partisan gerrymandering through the usage of independent redistricting commissions, and make elections a federal holiday.
- Support a compromise bill ending partisan gerrymandering and making election day a federal holiday while also instituting a nationwide voter ID law.
- Oppose any attempts to pass the For the People and support state-level voter ID laws and restrictions on postal and absentee voting.
What is your position on the filibuster?
- Use the nuclear option to eliminate the filibuster by a simple majority.
- Reform the filibuster by requiring all filibusters to be talking filibusters and by requiring at 40 votes to sustain the filibuster.
- Retain the filibuster in its current form.
Do you support abolishing the Electoral College?
- Yes, and replace it with a national popular vote with the president being elected using instant runoff voting.
- No, but electors in each state should be allocated on a proportional basis based on the statewide vote.
- No, but electors in each state should be allocated based on which candidate won each Congressional district similar to the system used in Maine and Nebraska.
- No, and the Electoral College should be retained in its current form.
How would you reform the Supreme Court?
- Expand the Supreme Court to fifteen justices and ensure that each party appoints five justices each, with the remaining five appointed by the previous ten justices.
- Retain the Supreme Court's current size, but introduce 18-year term limits for Supreme Court justices.
- Retain the Supreme Court's current size and oppose any partisan attempts at court reform.

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