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Ms. Slaughter wants “to put more money back into the middle-income pocketbook.” Energy conservation alone, she said, would go a long way toward solving economic problems.
Mr. Slaughter III said that “all national indicators are showing a turn-around,” and to continue the recovery “we have to be careful not to enact any recessionary tax increases.”
Mr. Allen favors a capital gains tax cut that would be indexed to the inflation rate for investments of five years or more. The main issue, he said, “is how can we get people working?”
Three of the four candidates favored some form of handgun control.
Mr. Allen has the endorsement of the National Rifle Association. He would have supported the Staggers “instant check” Bill instead of the Brady Bill’s waiting period. He called Virginia’s instant check system, the first in the nation, “fast, fair and efficient.”
Mr. Slaughter III would have voted for the Staggers Bill as well, but said that the Brady Bill constituted “an appropriate compromise.”
Ms. Slaughter said she comes “from a family of hunters,” but doesn’t see any problem with criminal background checks. However, she said, the idea of having to register weapons might have the “unintended consequence” that if handguns were outlawed the government would know who owned them and might attempt to seize them.
Mr. Torrice cautioned against the government “infringing on our liberties.”
“The fear I have is that in history every nation that ever fell, the government took their weapons,” he said.
On the larger issue of crime and drugs, Mr. Torrice suggested what he called a “radical” plan: “I’d post National Guard troops in every town of this nation for 60 days and I’d dry it up.”
“Law enforcement has shown they can’t take care of it,” he said.
Ms. Slaughter said she was “very involved on a local level” with the problems of crime and drugs through her work on the Charlottesville City Council.
“Many sheriffs offices (in Virginia) are really struggling from state cuts,” and she would work to increase the federal government’s allocation for crime prevention and law enforcement in the district, she said.
She wants more money for drug treatment and advocates putting more policemen on the sidewalks, as Charlottesville has done.
Mr. Slaughter III, a former trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, “spent a lot of time working in federal efforts on drug eradication” while assigned to Operation Greenback in Southern Florida.
“It takes a lot of resources, but it must continue to be a priority,” he
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