In a sense, where I stand on the issues does not matter like it does for any other politician, because I want you to make the final decisions of what gets passed into law—by Jury Democracy after a trial on each bill.  
   But I have strong positions and innovative proposals, as you will find on this website.

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Life—protecting and restoring nature.

• End the 6th mass extinction and share the planet with other species, reverting half our land to nature. 

• The Federal government can buy 1% of all land each year, protecting each habitat, including prairies, coastal lands, lakeshores, and others, and allow it to revert to nature until we have restored to nature 10%, 20%, or 50% of our land and waters, or whatever goal a Jury endorses. 

• Restore wild species to their native ranges and allow them to roam free coast to coast.

• The cost would be just 2.7% of the federal budget each year.

• Also, control pollution, subsidize and promote renewable energy generation and stop subsidizing fossil fuels.

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Liberty—

• End censorship of both sides, especially on social media

• Protect abortion rights and the right to control your body from unwanted medical treatments.

  • I will introduce a bill to a jury to guarantee abortion rights nationally, something Democrats failed to do even when they controlled Congress and the White House.

• Reduce regulations. Make the law understandable and simpler.  

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Happiness—
We have the most depressed, anxious, lonely, and mentally ill population of any society in human history.

        Happiness is the ultimate goal of our lives, but it is NOT the goal of our government.  When we, the people, control our government with Jury Democracy, happiness will be the goal of government because it is our goal.  And we hit what we aim at.  When that is our goal, we will hit it.  

     See my tab on Happiness for proposals.

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Other proposals:

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Taxes—Cut income taxes and payroll taxes in half! and replace with a wealth tax on billionaires and mega millionaires. (Yes, the numbers add up. That is revenue neutral and even reduces the deficit.)

Cut regulations and simplify laws and reduce the size of government. 

End the shitification of American life--Make trillion dollar companies ****ing answer the phone!

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Student loans 

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Break up monopolies and oligopolies to allow capitalism to work--Can be done with a progressive tax on corporate revenue or profits that would allow smaller companies to compete.

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Immigration—End illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration to protect our wages and jobs,

reduce congestion and the cost of housing and protect the environment from overpopulation. 

Tariffs—Support American manufacturing and wages with tariffs.

Israel and Palestine—Not one dime for Israel! Stop the genocide.

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The Supreme Court—Replace it with Jury Democracy -- a large a large jury of randomly selected citizens to decide each case. 

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Liberty:
I will oppose censorship of everyone—those I agree with and those I disagree with—on everything related to public policy.  

I will introduce a bill to forbid the government from leaning on social media to censor and forbid social media platforms from deplatforming or censoring in any other way anyone who uses their real name and identification on the platform, except for illegal acts such as threatening violence. 

On regulations, I want to simplify regulations and laws and slash their number.  And that is what will happen with Jury Democracy.

I oppose digital currencies in all forms--government issued and private. 

    Government digital currencies will be used to lock you out from your money and forbid you from even purchasing food if you express opinions that the government opposes, which is exactly what happened to the Canadian truckers when they opposed the lockdown response to COVID.  They will also be used to impose a negative interest rate so that your saved money loses value every year and you are forced to spend it or lose it--because our leaders want to continue to generate GDP growth at any cost.  And digital currencies will be used to eliminate the tiny amount of privacy you still have, so that the government knows how you spend your money and where every penny you spend goes. 

    Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a scam that waste absurd amounts of energy for the electricity they need, driving up your electric bill and contributing massively to global warming, and are primarily used for tax evasion and criminal money laundering.  They have essentially no benefits or legitimate uses.   

    They should be banned and I will work to do so.  

Happiness
By their focus on GDP growth, their personal power, national power, and serving corporations and billionaires, our leaders have created the most depressed, anxious, lonely, and mentally ill society in human history.  

    Our leaders have given social media companies free rein to do anything they want to addict us and destroy our mental health and happiness. Why?  Because those social media giants and the billionaires that own them pay for their campaigns.  

     The solution is not more GDP.  The solution is more human connection and more control over our own lives.  With Jury Democracy, where We the People make the decisions, we will have control over our own lives.  And we will govern with the goal that matters to us--happiness and quality of life, not more GDP.  

    I will propose creative ideas to juries to promote happiness and reduce loneliness, such as:

• Requesting that we wear name tags in public

• Requesting that we all go for a walk outside at 2:00 every Thursday to get a little exercise and fresh air and meet your neighbors.

• Shutting down social media one day per week or at least one day per month to break our addiction and promote interacting face to face.

• Banning social media for children

• Reducing the work week to 32 hours.

• Ideas to promote dog ownership and connection to nature.

The tax code—Cut payroll and income taxes in half and replace that with a wealth tax.
I will propose a bill to a jury to cut income taxes and payroll taxes in half and replace that revenue with an annual wealth tax of 8% on wealth over about $1 billion, 6% on wealth over $44 million (the top 0.1%), 3% on wealth over $12 million (the top 1%), and 1% on wealth over $1.5 million (the top 10%).

    That will raise $2.3 trillion each year.  That is enough to cut income taxes and payroll taxes in half, with enough left over to cut the deficit by a quarter.  And it even allows those people to continue to grow their wealth every year. 

If we simply taxed extreme wealth at reasonable rates, we could cut income taxes and payroll taxes in half.  And I will propose that we do that.  

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The Shitification of American Life
Have you tried to get a human to solve your issues with any large American corporation?  Good luck.

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These trillion dollar companies somehow cannot afford to hire people to answer the phones, and certainly not to hire someone in America who speaks English fluently and who has any authority or understanding to solve your problem.  Usually they don't even allow you to email them.  Our Congress members cower before these big companies.  God forbid they require them to hire people to answer the phones or provide an email address and a phone number on their websites!  

I will. It is a simple solution to pass a law that a company with over $10 million annual revenue has to have a phone number on their website and has to hire people to answer when you call that number.  

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In addition, I support a right of repair and a right to reverse engineer software--which would mean that your local mechanic could fix your car, you could buy cheaper toner and ink for your printers, and you could leave Facebook to a company that treats you better and still communicate with your friends on Facebook..
 

Break up monopolies and oligopolies: Antitrust law.

Capitalism is a good idea.  We should give it a try.

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Every industry, from drugs to chickens to social media to banking, has no more than 5 companies that control 90% or more of the market. That is not capitalism.  That is oligopoly.  

I support capitalism. That means no one company, or five companies colluding, has the power to set prices and set wages. Capitalism requires numerous actors in every market, so they compete on price and on wages and no one has the power to set prices or wages or to treat their customers like crap, knowing that customers have nowhere else to go.

To achieve that, we need to break up all these huge companies.  Part of that is enforcing anti-trust law. But suing companies to break them up costs the government millions and the targets, like Google, are willing to spend any amount on lawyers and drag it out for any amount of time because their monopolies are so valuable.  Then, even if the government wins, as it did with Google, there is the risk that the judge does nothing to break up or punish the target, as the judge in the Google case did.

 
The key is to simply make it unprofitable to be a monopoly.  We can do that with taxes, instead of arbitrarily suing some tiny number of monopolists and letting the rest go.  I propose a graduated corporate tax.  Small mom and pop corporations making less than $1 million annual profit should pay no tax on corporate income but only pay individual income tax when they pay themselves.  But large corporations like Google and Facebook (Alphabet and Meta technically are the names of the corporations) should pay a steep corporate tax, which they can reduce by breaking up into smaller independent companies that compete.  

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Student Loans
Students should not have their lives ruined because they made a bad economic decision when they were 18.  

The federal government can buy all student loans and then forgive them after a person has paid 15% of their income for 15 years. If you have paid 15% of your income for 15 years on a loan, you should be free.  

Immigration and Overpopulation
I support controlling our border.  We should have zero illegal immigration and net zero legal immigration and emigration (i.e., the number of legal immigrants entering equals the number of citizens leaving).  

 

But that does not mean you cannot be humane about deporting people or inducing them to go home.  Immigration should primarily be enforced on employers.  Illegal immigrants come for jobs. That means they are taking jobs from Americans and driving down wages.  It is simple supply and demand.  
 
Overpopulation is the biggest problem in the world and the biggest problem in the U.S.  It drives habitat loss and global warming and all environmental problems.  It also drives poverty.  With fewer people there will be more resources for each of us and we all live economically richer lives.  

The U.S. is overpopulated, just like the rest of the world.  And our population growth is driven entirely by immigration.

Overpopulation increases the price of land and housing.  There is a finite amount of land and a relatively finite amount of existing housing. More people means the price of land and housing goes up.  It is simple supply and demand.

Tariffs:
I support tariffs.  But only on manufactured goods, not on agricultural products or minerals, energy, and raw materials.  

No nation has ever prospered and advanced economically without tariffs on manufactured imports.

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The Asian nations have been eating our lunch for 50 years with tariffs, driving down American manufacturing wages.   Every nation in history that advanced economically relative to other nations did it by tariffs and protectionism, including the United States.  And every advanced nation in history that then adopted free trade declined relative to other nations, including the U.S.

It is simple supply and demand.  American wages are driven down by competing with low cost foreign wages, either by manufacturing abroad or by immigration of those foreigners.  

Israel and Palestine:
Not one red cent for Israel!  I don't want my tax dollars going to fund genocide.

Bring Benjamin Netenyahu and others in Israel to justice for genocide and crimes against humanity.  The leaders of Hamas should also be brought to justice.

I support a 2-state solution.  Remove Israeli settlements completely from the West Bank and unite the West Bank and Gaza in a new independent Palestininian state with no Israeli control.