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Full relief for service-disabled veterans and dependents; review existing veterans' laws to remove inequalities and effect economies — Herbert Hoover, 1932

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.66	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
0.62	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Benefits for disabled and service-connected veterans	Continue just treatment of war veterans and dependents
0.54	1936	Alf Landon	Politics and patronage in relief administration	Relief will continue, but purged of politics, administered locally on merit, with economies taken from 'the political exploiters'
0.48	1936	Alf Landon	Unemployment insurance	Leave unemployment insurance to State experiment; no federal tax to compel it
0.47	1932	Norman Thomas	Unemployment insurance	Compulsory unemployment insurance funded by employers and by higher income and inheritance taxes
0.47	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Federal responsibility for relief	Federal leadership in distress relief — federal credit to states whose resources are exhausted
0.46	1932	Herbert Hoover	Federal responsibility for relief	Relief through voluntary mobilization and local responsibility, with RFC loans to exhausted states — no federal dole
0.46	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
0.44	1932	Herbert Hoover	Local government consolidation and the tax burden on land	A national review of federal-state-local taxation to relieve farms and homes of property taxes
0.43	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Unemployment insurance	Unemployment insurance under state laws
0.43	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
0.42	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Old-age pensions and social insurance	Build on the Social Security Act toward economic security for all
0.42	1936	Alf Landon	Civil service and patronage	Restore, improve and extend the merit system 'virtually destroyed by New Deal spoilsmen'
0.42	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Public works as employment policy	Public works spending is only a stopgap, not a cure for unemployment
0.42	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Overall role and scale of the federal government	Government as a check on concentrated economic power — "individualism" redefined as equality of opportunity
0.42	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Direct relief for the unemployed	Provide useful work at prevailing wages for the needy unemployed rather than a dole
0.41	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Civil service and patronage	Immediately extend the merit system to all non-policy-making federal positions
0.41	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	European war debts and reparations	No cancellation of the war debts — make payment possible by restoring trade
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	Tariff levels	Unconditional most-favored-nation treatment; no reciprocal bargains or preferences
0.40	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Level of federal spending	Reduce the expenses of government as relief needs decline
0.40	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Local government consolidation and the tax burden on land	Presidential leadership to consolidate local governments and lift the tax burden on land
0.40	1932	Albert C. Ritchie	Federal responsibility for relief	States' rights and business-led recovery — no federal intervention in relief
0.39	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Tariff levels	A "competitive" tariff set through a scientific Tariff Commission, with anti-log-rolling rules and a public counsel
0.39	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