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Oppose cash prepayment of the veterans' bonus, especially by fiat money — Herbert Hoover, 1932

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.48	1936	Alf Landon	Balancing the federal budget	Balance the budget by cutting expenditures, not by raising taxes
0.47	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Gold standard and currency basis	A sound currency preserved at all hazards
0.45	1932	Herbert Hoover	Federal guarantee of bank deposits	Oppose a federal guarantee of bank deposits
0.44	1936	Alf Landon	Gold standard and currency basis	Sound currency 'at all hazards'; no further devaluation; repeal the laws delegating the money power to the Executive
0.43	1932	John Nance Garner	Veterans' bonus and benefits	The Patman cash bonus and $2.3 billion of greenbacks, passed by the House under his speakership
0.42	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Regulation of banks and securities	Separate investment banking from commercial banks; tighter national-bank supervision; faster payouts to depositors of closed banks
0.42	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Public ownership of electric power	Public development of hydro-electric power on the St. Lawrence model, with national control of interstate transmission
0.42	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	International economic and monetary conferences	Convene international monetary and economic conferences to stabilize currencies and restore trade
0.42	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Veterans' bonus and benefits	No early payment of the veterans' bonus until the budget is balanced with a cash surplus
0.41	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	How to finance old-age and unemployment insurance (contributory reserve vs. pay-as-you-go)	Defense of the payroll-tax financing: the employer pays an equal share and the reserves are safe
0.41	1932	Herbert Hoover	Public works as employment policy	Federal construction at three times normal and $1.5 billion of RFC loans for self-liquidating works — but no pork-barrel or non-productive projects
0.41	1932	Norman Thomas	Federal responsibility for relief	A $5 billion federal appropriation for immediate relief of those in need
0.40	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Balancing the federal budget	Balance the budget within a year or two out of rising national income, without new taxes
0.40	1932	Herbert Hoover	Regulation of securities issuance and exchanges	No federal 'blue sky' law — securities regulation belongs to the states, and the President should not police booms
0.39	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Amending the Constitution to enlarge (or restrain) federal power	Meet constitutional obstacles by 'clarifying amendment' -- and say nothing about the Supreme Court
0.38	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Distribution of national income and purchasing power	A more equitable distribution of national income — higher reward to labor, lower to speculative capital
0.38	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Level of military spending	An adequate Army and Navy without a near-billion-dollar peacetime burden
0.37	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm prices and agricultural surplus	Raise staple farm prices by a tariff-equivalent benefit plus voluntary production control, at no cost to the Treasury
0.37	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Tariff levels	Revise the tariff downward through reciprocal trade agreements
0.37	1936	Alf Landon	European war debts and reparations	Use every effort to collect the war debts due from foreign countries
0.37	1932	Herbert Hoover	Tariff levels	Preserve the bipartisan Tariff Commission's flexible power to adjust rates without congressional log-rolling
0.36	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Level of federal spending	Cut the cost of the federal government by at least 25 percent
0.35	1932	Herbert Hoover	Tariff levels	Maintain — and if necessary widen — the protective tariff; reject the Democratic 'competitive tariff for revenue'
0.35	1936	Frank Knox	Balancing the federal budget	A budget balanced immediately and a currency based on and convertible into gold
0.34	1932	Herbert Hoover	Balancing the federal budget	A balanced budget as 'the foundation of all public and private financial stability'