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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
0.67	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
0.64	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Veterans' bonus and benefits	No early payment of the veterans' bonus until the budget is balanced with a cash surplus
0.58	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
0.57	1936	Alf Landon	How to finance old-age and unemployment insurance (contributory reserve vs. pay-as-you-go)	Repeal the compulsory old-age insurance plan; pay every needy citizen over 65 a pension from a direct, widely distributed tax
0.55	1932	Herbert Hoover	Gold standard and currency basis	Hold the gold standard and the 'honest dollar'; no fiat money, no 'rubber dollar' price-fixing
0.54	1932	Herbert Hoover	European war debts and reparations	No cancellation of war debts; apply any annual payment to opening foreign markets for American farm products
0.54	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
0.52	1936	William Lemke	Public control of the central bank and money creation	'Drive the money changers out of the temple': public control of money and credit, further inflation of the currency
0.52	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Benefits for disabled and service-connected veterans	Full justice and generosity for veterans disabled by actual wartime service — silence on the bonus
0.51	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Balancing the federal budget	Balance the federal budget annually within revenues
0.49	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
0.49	1932	Norman Thomas	Unemployment insurance	Compulsory unemployment insurance funded by employers and by higher income and inheritance taxes
0.48	1932	Herbert Hoover	Level of federal spending	Cut federal spending $1.5 billion below fiscal 1932 and reorganize the executive branch
0.48	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
0.48	1932	Herbert Hoover	Balancing the federal budget	A balanced budget as 'the foundation of all public and private financial stability'
0.48	1932	Herbert Hoover	Regulation of banks and securities	The RFC and the 'shield of Government credit' saved 5,000 institutions and must continue — but no direct government lending to everyone
0.48	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm and home mortgage relief	Low interest rates, sounder home financing, better banking
0.48	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm prices and agricultural surplus	Continue soil conservation and domestic allotment payments; end ruinous surpluses; commodity loans on seasonal surpluses
0.47	1932	John Nance Garner	Public works as employment policy	The Garner-Rainey $1.2 billion public-works bill — and a pledge to reintroduce it
0.47	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Level of federal spending	Defense of the eight-billion-dollar deficit as an investment in America
0.46	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	European war debts and reparations	No cancellation of the war debts — make payment possible by restoring trade
0.46	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Restoring the commodity price level (reflation)	Restore commodity prices toward their former dollar value rather than write down all debts
0.45	1932	Herbert Hoover	Farm prices and agricultural surplus	Farm prices can be restored only by general recovery and markets — no production control, no subsidies; repeal Farm Board stabilization
0.45	1932	Herbert Hoover	Farm and home mortgage relief	The Federal Home Loan Bank system to stop home foreclosures and finance new homes
0.45	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Campaign finance and lobbying	Continuous publicity of political contributions; stronger Corrupt Practices Act; curb paid lobbies