STANDS OF DONALD TRUMP AND HILLARY CLINTON, US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2016

Finally, it’s November. After the most unconventional election campaign US – even the whole world – saw in the last few months, we are ultimately on our way to facing the election day followed by the results.

At this point, many people seem to have been undecided about who to vote and why to vote. So, to help the voters to find the right candidate and to aware the world about the stands of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, I have broken down the issues into Yes/No questions. The source of the data is npr.org.

ECONOMY

ISSUES	Donald Trump	Hillary Clinton
Wants to restrict companies from moving profits overseas	Yes	Yes
Wants increased tax burdens on wealthier Americans	No	Yes
Wants to reduce taxes on low- and middle-income earners	Yes	Yes
Supports Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform and Consumer Protection Act	No	Yes
Supports reducing the corporate income tax	Yes	No
Supports increasing the minimum wage	No	Yes
Believes labour unions are beneficial	Pro-worker	Yes
Wants to increase spending for infrastructure to create jobs	Yes	Yes

TERRORISM

ISSUES	Donald Trump	Hillary Clinton
Supports the use of drone strikes	Perhaps	Yes
Wants to deploy American ground troops to combat ISIS	Yes	Reluctant
Wants to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay	No	Yes
Supports the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques”	Yes	No
Supports increased screening of refugees	Yes	Yes
Wants to ban refugees from countries deemed not to have proper vetting mechanisms	Yes	No

FOREIGN POLICY

ISSUES	Donald Trump	Hillary Clinton
Supports the Trans-Pacific Partnership	No	No
Wants to increase tariffs on trade partners	Yes	Yes
Supports the Iran nuclear deal	No	Yes
Supports sanctions on Russia owing to aggression in Ukraine	No	Yes
Wants Treasury to designate China a currency manipulator	Yes	No
Supports continued American participation in NATO	Hesitant	Yes
Supports keeping some ground troops in Afghanistan and Iraq	Yes	Yes
Okay with allowing the number of countries with nuclear weapons to increase	1	No

1 Trump thinks it’s going to happen anyway.

HEALTH

ISSUES	Donald Trump	Hillary Clinton
Wants to replace the Affordable Care Act	Yes	No
Supports the expansion of Medicaid and Medicare	No	Yes
Supports mandatory vaccinations	Hesitant	Yes
Proposed a plan to combat opioid addiction	Yes	Yes
Supports a woman’s right to an abortion	Whimsical	Yes
Supports action to make child care more affordable	Yes	Yes

GUN POLICY

ISSUES	Donald Trump	Hillary Clinton
Wants an assault weapons ban	No	Yes
Wants to ban gun purchases for those on no-fly lists	Yes	Yes
Wants to close the gun show and Internet sales loophole	No	Yes
Supports gun-free zones	No	Not spoken of

IMMIGRATION

ISSUES	Donald Trump	Hillary Clinton
Wants to invest in increasing barrier to entry on U.S.-Mexico border	Yes	Yes
Wants to deport all immigrants living in the country illegally	Not Clear	No
Supports a pathway to citizenship for residents in the country illegally	No	Yes
Wants to allow Syrian refugees to settle in the United States	No	Yes

SOCIAL SECURITY

ISSUES	Donald Trump	Hillary Clinton
Wants to privatize Social Security	No	No
Wants to raise the retirement age for Social Security	No	No
Wants to fund Social Security through some form of tax increase	No	Yes

EDUCATION

ISSUES	Donald Trump	Hillary Clinton
Supports the Common Core state standards	No	Yes
Wants to make public colleges and universities debt-free for students	Yes	Yes
Supports publicly funded early-childhood education	Not very clear	Yes
Supports school choice programs, like private school vouchers	Yes	Not Clear
Believes teachers unions protect bad teachers	Yes	Not Clear
Supports tying teacher pay to evaluations	Yes	No
Supports reducing the number of standardized tests	Yes	Yes

RACIAL AND ETHNOC MINORITIES

ISSUES	Donald Trump	Hillary Clinton
Believes black prison population is disproportionately large	Likely	Yes
Supports Black Lives Matter	Yes	Yes
Supports police body cameras	Yes	Yes
Supports restoring the Voting Rights Act	Calling for security	Yes
Supports Justice Department investigations into local police	No	Yes
Supports training programs to reduce bias in police departments	Yes	Yes

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS

ISSUES	Donald Trump	Hillary Clinton
Believes Obama’s Supreme Court nomination should move forward	No	Yes
Would re-nominate Obama’s choice for justice	No	Perhaps

Those were the stands of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on major political, social and economic issues.

I urge every eligible American to go out and vote on November 8. No matter your choice, each vote will count for the future of the United States and the entire world.

It’s your turn, Americans. Get up and vote!