Views on the issues
The Local Issues
I want to start by talking about some of the issues directly effecting all the people here in MA and specifically the 5th district. When I started talking with voters about my policy positions, I often heard the question, what about local issues? I look at the "national issues" and "local issues" as one in the same. Some of the top issues effecting us locally include the rising cost of living, unemployment, healthcare affordability, transportation and elder care. Check out my housing and cost of living page or my plans to finally move American healthcare into the 21st century. In my tax reform proposal I address ways to improve employment and pay. In both my immigration proposal and also in my plans for healthcare reform there are ways to help small businesses. I believe any paid use of public transportation should be a tax write off; I also think drivers with zero accidents and zero traffic violations should get to deduct the cost of auto insurance for their primary daily vehicle. I address the shortage of eldercare workers in my immigration proposal. I also ask that you check out my page about the small but impactful things we can get passed quickly. All of these things have a daily effect on our lives here in Massachusetts but also across our great nation and we want to make sure we don't overlook their potential impact.
Structural reforms
First and foremost, my campaign is centered around governmental reforms to change how we operate and increase transparency, trust and accountability in government. Three things we don't have much of right now. These things are the basic foundation of a functioning government. Given the political landscape right now and the fact that this administration has at least two more years in power I truly believe our best use of time over the next two years is to focus on the things that have the most bi-partisan support nationwide. Some of those things include banning stock trading by elected officials, ending gerrymandering, getting big and dark money out of our elections and adding term limits for congress and federal judges.
Personal Tax Reform
Washington has turned "tax reform" into nothing more than a buzz word to pull out during election years. Its another example of the failure of our career politicians. I believe DC is too far removed from our daily lives to dictate an income tax bill that's one size fits all for Americans. I'm proposing we move all "individual" tax collection to the state level and let the changing federal administrations just tell the states know what they owe. Fair and even for all states but each state gets to decided how they get to that number. i.e. You owe us 14% of taxable W-2 income from your resident's total wages. The state should decide whether they get there with a progressive income tax, a flat tax, a wealth tax, a sales tax, a property tax or tourism tax. I want this big decision to be made closer to home so we can put more power in the hands of the people.
Corporate Tax reform
Washington politicians have long enjoyed writing massive "reform" bills that include personal taxes for poor, middle class and wealthy individuals and corporate taxes for small, middle size companies and massive publicly traded companies all in one bill. America is not and never will be one size fits all and our representatives need to stop treating us that way. We need to rebuild our corporate tax code and break it up into three totally separate codes. Code 1 for small and mid size businesses with under 50 employees and under 10 million in revenue. Code 2 for large privately owned businesses that are focused on growth and innovation. Code 3 for publicly traded companies, if you're going to receive the benefits that come with being on our public markets you're going to pay for that privilege.
Immigration
Stop settling for the same old "border crisis" rhetoric that cycles through Washington every two years without a single lasting result. My 21st-century vision for the border isn't just about security, it’s about turning a national challenge into a strategic economic engine through my innovative "Train Now, Pay Later" program. From self-funding apprenticeship schools to utilizing advanced drug-detection technology, this is a pragmatic, common-sense approach that benefits American workers and small businesses nation wide while finally creating a legal immigration system that actually works. Click the link below to read the full details of how we can choose people over politics and build a stronger, more secure America.
Heathcare
Healthcare has been a "kitchen table" issue for as long as I can remember. Well, the rates have only gone up, and the coverage has been watered down. Washington has failed to provide lasting bipartisan solutions to our nation's healthcare problems and its past time for real reform. The loudest voices on the left want mandated single payer government healthcare. The loudest voices on the right want free markets to decide the appropriate cost. The problem here is that not enough people support true single payer with no other choice, and we all know by now that for profit companies cannot be trusted to provide affordable high-quality care with no surprise bills. I'm here to say there is another way.
Veterans Care / Homelessness
Veterans care is a bi-partisan topic that most can agree on in principle. The disagreements tend to come because of media spin and a difference of opinion on spending requirements to get to the end goal. Well, I don't think we need more government spending to solve this issue, I just think we need to ask the largest companies and richest among us to do something legendary and end homelessness for our veterans and fellow Americans. Not a requirement or a new tax, I mean seriously just prompt them to look in their hearts, look at their bank accounts and make the right decision to spend just a small fraction of their profits to end homelessness in their local community. Imagine instead of people seeing a sign for Raytheon and thinking about war and death they thought "wow, that's the company that ended homelessness in my town." Sounds pretty good doesn't it Raytheon?
Housing and Cost of Living
Wall street shouldn't be allowed to manipulate housing prices in our district the way they do with something called "comp manipulation". Comp manipulation is when a large company purchases a few hundred homes in a given district or area, then sells a handful of them to a subsidiary company they also own for hundreds of thousands of dollars more than they just paid and then artificially increase the "value" of the other homes they own in that area because they now have sale comps that show an increase in "value". This is a manipulative tactic hedge funds use to increase the value of homes on the books and thus drive their overall value up. It's wrong and it should be illegal. This type of manipulation drives up costs for everyone and makes regions of our country simply unaffordable for most families.
Small but impactful
There are so many little things our government could be doing to better out quality of life that get pushed aside for the typical partisan fights. That get forgotten about because our lawmakers just want to put on a show for their constituents. Congress has become a theater where the show never ends, and the intermission is really just a rinse and repeat button. They hide their lack of progress towards lasting solutions behind finger pointing, fear mongering and buzz words like "reform". The typical politician says they are going to "fight for you" and then tells you they can't win that fight without your financial support. There are so many things that most Americans agree on that never get brought up in congress because they aren't powerful enough or sexy enough to get views and clicks. I think since congress can't seem to get the big things done, they should at least get some of the small things accomplished. I'm starting with a few things I think almost everyone can agree on. 1. Ending the annoying wastefulness of junk mail. 2. Stopping the scam calls from local area codes. 3. Banning manipulative marketing practices.
Reproductive Health
How did we get to the point where reproductive health is a controversial topic in America. No matter who you talk to and where they stand politically people seem to agree that women deserve the right to make healthcare decisions about their own bodies. People know that the government shouldn't be allowed in the doctor's office with anyone. Where the lines seem to get crossed has everything to do with political manipulation and media influence. It's time we set the record straight with the voters in the GOP. There is no such thing as a "post birth abortion" like Trump has repeated over and over again. That's called murder and it simply isn't happening, not in blue states or anywhere else in this country. I believe in a women's right to make whatever decision she wants to about her own health and body and I think more people in America believe that as well.
Education and Innovation
Are you as sick as I am of seeing America move down the global education rankings year after year? Shouldn't we actually do something to change that? Our government has been too slow to innovate, too slow to change and too slow to lead on education for too many decades now. There is a technological revolution upon us and if we don't elect leaders that recognize the moment we will fall even farther behind. With AI, Robotics, Quantum computing and Blockchain technologies all emerging at once we need an education system in our country that is ready to meet this challenge head on to teach and train the leaders of tomorrow, today!
Gun Safety / Reform
Gun safety has been a left vs right issue for a few decades now with no real meaningful progress. The left will keep fighting and the right will pitch that fight as a path towards total and complete confiscation of all guns. They will say that the democrats want to take the second amendment out of the constitution! I'm here to call out the BS and to help the democrats do something they haven't been able to accomplish. In my first term I plan on getting republicans and democrats to co-sponsor my bill for Universal background checks for all gun sales across our beautifully diverse country. Click the link below to read about how I will make this happen.
The Gig economy
Healthcare and a stable home life have been barriers to entry for want to be business owners for far too long. With my tax reform and health care policy proposals we can remove those barriers and let people pursue their dreams without fear of overworking and still not being able to provide everything their family needs to thrive. If we want to encourage an entrepreneurial spirit in this country, we need to provide our citizens with the support systems, they need to take that leap. 1/3 US citizens work a "side hustle" and nearly 1/2 of all small business owners work one too. Let's help make all full-time jobs good enough to support a family.
Social Security Reform
Social Security is failing the American people, and it’s not as simple as just lifting the cap. This is our money, and we deserve to have true ownership of it, choose who manages it, to be able to watch it grow and even pass some of it on to our children. I’ve developed a plan that is a huge step up from the current system and a way to make the transition easy and beneficial for everyone, from our lowest-income families to ultra-high-net-worth households. The math works and I can't wait for you to read more about it. Click the link below to see the full details of the Personal Ownership Model and how we can finally secure a retirement that actually belongs to you.
Transparency & Trust
Trust in government is at an all time low right now and a recent Gallup poll shows only 10% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing right now. Increasing the trust people have in our government is critical to healing America and moving us forward towards a prosperous future. We can only do this in one way, by making the government much more transparent through some of the structural reforms I speak about. The primary one being moving more power down to State and Local governments. Eliminating the use of "omnibus bills", which is legislation with tons of things all packed into one bill that is thousands of pages long. The people cannot keep up with that and the government knows that. These tactics need to become a thing of the past and single or dual issue bills need to be the law of the land. Let us see behind the curtain without having to devote days of our lives reading these massive spending bills. Break the tax code us so we really know what you're voting for and politicians on both sides need to stop talking around every question and start giving us straight answers. Check out my pages on Tax reform, healthcare reform and climate change to learn more about ways we can be more transparent and increase trust in government.
Love who you love
This topic here might be the easiest for me to explain my position on of any. Love whoever you want as long as you're both of age and consenting. That's it, why the hell should the government have any say whatsoever in who we choose to love or marry. It's 2026, grow up republicans!
Childcare & Pre-K
Child care is one or the most pressing but also difficult issues on the minds of voters these days and I've done a ton of research into it. Right now most of the proposals on the left include increasing subsidies for child care providers but only the ones that meet certain requirements, complete all the necessary forms and conform to all the necessary changes. This will bury many individual and in home providers in paperwork and cause compliance headaches for small business owners across the nation. My solution is simple, don't give the subsidy to the business, give it directly to the citizen. $1000 a month per child under Kindergarten age. We already have that information on their tax return and if the taxes are filed and they got checks they didn't deserve we take that money back out of the tax return. Make it a simple election made with your employers payroll company. Only families making less then 200% of the median household income in their state will be eligible and both parents must be working to receive the credit unless there is a disability preventing them from being the childcare provider themselves. The licensed care provider will submit one simple document with their tax return for verification and it should match the return of the family on this expense. This keeps Pre K schools competing on price and keeps all of the options for the families. It's a win-win and the most simple and straight forward way to do this.
The hording of greenbacks
The left always talks about a wealth tax because of "greed" to me it isn't that simple. When a small group controls so much money it becomes about much more than that. It removes money from our economy; it doesn't circulate and compound its effect like money being spent does. This hurts our economy, lowers our GDP and slows the growth of this great nation. This is called the velocity of money, and when we have a high velocity of money our economy works best. It is an economic imperative that we get this money back into the hands of people that will spend it and speed up our economy. We shouldn't just be talking about a wealth tax because of the greed, the hording of money in America is directly hurting out country and that should and will be the talking point that can get us to a wealth tax. Read about my plans for Social security reform to learn about ways everyone can benefit from the velocity of money.