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'I welcome their hatred': a second term in which organized money meets its master — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.44	1932	Herbert Hoover	Public ownership of electric power	Federal regulation of interstate power; opposition to government operation of the power business
0.41	1932	Albert C. Ritchie	Federal responsibility for relief	States' rights and business-led recovery — no federal intervention in relief
0.40	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
0.39	1936	Alf Landon	Unemployment insurance	Leave unemployment insurance to State experiment; no federal tax to compel it
0.37	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Income and inheritance tax progressivity	Taxes levied according to ability to pay; lower taxes for 99 percent, higher at the top
0.35	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Balancing the federal budget	Balance the budget within a year or two out of rising national income, without new taxes
0.35	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
0.34	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	National economic planning	National economic planning on the model of the 1917 war mobilization
0.33	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Level of military spending	An adequate Army and Navy without a near-billion-dollar peacetime burden
0.32	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
0.32	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Civil service and patronage	Immediately extend the merit system to all non-policy-making federal positions
0.32	1936	Alf Landon	Balancing the federal budget	Balance the budget by cutting expenditures, not by raising taxes
0.32	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Old-age pensions and social insurance	Build on the Social Security Act toward economic security for all
0.32	1932	Herbert Hoover	Overall role and scale of the federal government	Preserve 'ordered freedom' and equality of opportunity; reject a state-controlled or state-directed economy as 'tyranny'
0.31	1936	William E. Borah	Antitrust and concentration of economic power	Drive monopoly and price fixing out of the system or face governmental regimentation
0.30	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	National economic planning	Industry leaders to organize cooperatively for the common good; government regulates only as a last resort
0.28	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Reorganization of the executive branch	A long-range plan consolidating the federal government's scattered public-health and welfare agencies
0.28	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Level of federal spending	Cut the cost of the federal government by at least 25 percent
0.28	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Campaign finance and lobbying	Continuous publicity of political contributions; stronger Corrupt Practices Act; curb paid lobbies
0.28	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Gold standard and currency basis	A sound currency preserved at all hazards
0.28	1932	Herbert Hoover	Federal action against organized crime and narcotics	Rigid federal penal laws against gangsters, racketeers and kidnappers; relentless war on narcotics
0.27	1932	Herbert Hoover	Civil service and patronage	Keep the merit system 'unassailable'
0.27	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Veterans' bonus and benefits	No early payment of the veterans' bonus until the budget is balanced with a cash surplus
0.27	1936	Alf Landon	Equal rights and opportunity for Black Americans	Equal opportunity for colored citizens: protect their economic status and personal safety; further their employment
0.27	1932	Norman Thomas	Income and inheritance tax progressivity	Steeply increased income and inheritance taxes