• Should a business, based on religious beliefs, be able to deny service to a customer?

No, I am against discrimination.

• Should the government require health insurance companies to provide free birth control?

I don’t know the answers to a lot of these questions because I don’t know the utility of these things or how much money the government has to throw around. But I think there’s something to say for the investment of open and free birth control for public health and preventing unwanted pregnancies.

• Should the federal government continue to give tax credits and subsidies to the wind power industry? 

Someone made a really good argument on here the other day, saying that you shouldn’t have both a carbon tax and a subsidy, because 1) it’s redundant, and 2) if you subsidize everything you’re wasting a lot of money and if you subsidize one, it could be the wrong one. I think a carbon tax would be the right thing to pressure the market to seek new alternatives.

• Should employers be required to pay men and women, who perform the same work, the same salary?

I could’ve sworn I heard someone say that the wage gap is misleading, but that could’ve been bullshit. Anyways, I don’t know how this would work. If there happened to be a case where the women weren’t hard workers and the men were, should the men not get raises? I’m not anti-government, but it’s a blunt instrument and this seems a little surgical.

• Should the government make cuts to public spending in order to reduce the national debt?

I put this here because this is one of those basic questions I should know the answer to but I don’t so I’m hoping someone will answer it.

• Should Wall Street executives be criminally charged for their roles in the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis?

I have no idea what constitutes white collar crime or what these people even did. The financial crisis kind of happened in the background of my life while I was doing college and work, so I don’t know what happened honestly.

• Do you believe labor unions help or hurt the economy?

I think the correct answer is that they play an important role, but they are prone to corruption. Maybe if they represented the workers better, people wouldn’t complain about them. But I don’t know.

• Would you favor an increased sales tax in order to reduce property taxes?

I think this is the opposite of what people say we should do, no? Doesn’t sales tax affect the poor more than the rich, and vice versa with property taxes? Am I thinking of income tax? Whatever.

• Should internet service providers be allowed to prioritize traffic for websites that pay higher rates than their competitors?

The IGM poll I just looked at came split between “agree” and “uncertain” on this matter. I guess I should listen to them over hysterical internet nerds. So maybe it’s not worth yelling about.

• Do you support affirmative action programs?

I have no idea of the effectiveness of these programs, but something should be done.

• Should the government decrease military spending?

Yes. I don’t want to put my hat in the ring for whether we should change our role in the world stage, but even if we don’t, I imagine there is some fat we could trim.

• Would you support increasing taxes on the rich in order to reduce interest rates for student loans? 

This seems like a moderate proposal compared to universal free tuition. I just don’t know how much more the rich should be taxed more. You can’t just tax them whenever you want something, but maybe the taxes could be higher. There’s a limited amount of money you can get regardless though, so maybe we should sit on that play for now.

• Should illegal immigrants be given access to government-subsidized healthcare?

I think there should be an absolute minimum standard of health care for anyone located in the country regardless of citizenship, but it should probably be better if you’re a tax paying citizen or resident. I do think it should be easier to become a citizen, however.

• Should the government fund space travel?

I asked a friend his opinion on whether we should spend money on space travel. He said there are two main reasons to do this: first, the fact that so much science and technology even tangentially related to what we make for space travel comes out of our research. The second is that it’s just cool. Well let me tell you something buddy, I am the nation’s number one leading investment toward the progress of cool and no one’s giving me any money. But I’m all about those sweet technological advancements, so I say yes.

I keep getting Bernie Sanders when I do this quiz, but it was only a 2% difference from Hillary Clinton, and I’m not gonna doubt my gut over a 2% difference on an internet quiz.