Much of the deficit comes from government trying to do and fund everything when so much of what they do is far beyond the intent of our constitution. I absolutely favor making the tax cuts permanent. We will definitely have higher taxes (including the return of the hated Death Tax that takes up to 50 percent or more of your assets when you die after paying taxes all your life) if the Democrats take control of Congress. This is due to their refusal to make the tax cuts permanent that Congress passed after 9/11 when the terrorists hoped to weaken our economy. Those tax cuts have kept our economy strong all this time. The Democrats want and are waiting anxiously for those tax cuts to expire in 2010. I will vote to make them permanent.

7. Please give your specific stands on the following issues, which some term as moral issues:

— Stem cell research. I support President Bush's veto of the Stem Cell Research legislation. Any desired medical and research benefits can be accomplished within existing approved lines without total disregard of the sanctity of procreation.

— Cloning of human cells. The same applies to human cloning.

— Abortion. I strongly oppose abortion. It is only justified to save the mother's life and in cases of incest and forcible rape. Over 40 million abortions have occurred in America since Roe v. Wade was decided. This is a tragic example of what judge-made laws vs. laws adopted by majority vote of the people are doing to our country.

— Capital punishment. I support capital punishment in those extreme cases where justice demands as set forth in our laws.

— Same sex marriage. I oppose same-sex marriage. In 2004, as a member of the Utah Legislature, I authored and sponsored Utah's Constitutional Amendment, which affirms marriage as the legal union between a man and a woman. Two-thirds of the Utah Legislature and the voters agreed and more than 20 other states have done the same. I support the Federal Defense of Marriage Act and the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment that parallels ours.

8. Specifically say how you would "solve" the immigration problem in the short and long term, what programs would you begin, what would you do with the current 11 million estimated immigrants now in the United States?