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Government shutdown and cooperation
- My support or opposition to a government shutdown would depend on the circumstances. I cannot answer that in advance.
- However, I do believe that, irrespective of whether the government is shut down, contracts must be honored and it is not acceptable to allow people to suffer who have reasonably come to rely on government promises.
- Service members agreed to sacrifice their time and risk their lives in return for certain pay, benefits and care. Those agreements must be honored, even during a government shutdown.
Quality of life: pay, healthcare, childcare, spouse employment and moves
- Those are contractual matters, to be agreed upon at enlistment or reenlistment.
- The military would have to explain to Congress what it needs to meet recruitment goals, and such needs would have to be balanced with what the government can afford, but whatever is offered must be honored.
- Until that system is in place, I would support the provision of what service members reasonably expected upon enlistment.
Veterans’ care and healthcare reform
- I would issue private medical insurance that could be used anywhere.
- More generally, though, government involvement in civilian health care has produced a Byzantine monstrosity that bilks patients, doctors and taxpayers to benefit politically connected pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and hospitals, which then help the politicians who support the monstrosity.
- I would completely reform the health care system by eliminating all government involvement, which will restore competition and market pricing and result in vastly improved care at prices anyone can afford.
Military family housing
- I would ensure that housing expectations are clearly spelled out as a contractual matter during recruitment.
- For current residents, I would support safe, clean, reasonable accommodations.
First priorities and government’s role
- The main focus of my campaign is to enact legislation that would outlaw socialism. I would honor the promises and agreements of the past, but reduce government to its constitutional limits.
- The elimination of socialism will produce a booming economy, the likes of which has never been seen. It will spur innovation that will make the United States a power that will far surpass the rest of the world.
- It will reduce the need for soldiers to risk their lives. It will make people proud to be American again.
- The wealth that will be created will enable the government to meet its obligations to its service members, in addition to making it easy for service members and everyone else to enjoy a comfortable life with little effort, or to become wealthy with more.
Experience and guiding principles
- I am an attorney and a computer systems designer. I have spent my life designing and building systems that are robust and do not fail.
- As a libertarian scholar, I have also spent decades studying economics and the wealth-multiplying effects of protecting everyone’s rights to do whatever they can to improve their own lives, so long as they do not infringe on the rights of others, and to keep whatever they earn and multiply their wealth through voluntary trade.
- Socialism elevates the group above the individual, which only helps the people who appoint themselves spokesmen of the group. There is no greater way to empower the lowliest individuals than to respect the absolute sovereignty of the individual. That is why the rich tend to be more in favor of socialism than the poor, in whose they name they declare their support for it.
ELECTION REFLECTIONS · IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Looking ahead to Election Day
Brief answers to DutyStation’s questions about hope, America’s future, unity, the next generation and a closing message. The earlier policy answers and their received date remain above.
Hope heading into the election
- Although I disagree with more of his positions than I agree with, I believe Donald Trump is the best President at least since George Washington, and I have hope that Americans will come to understand and appreciate the important lessons he has taught, and that that will lead to a truly free society.
Vision for America
- Every individual sovereign
Bringing Americans together
- Pride in the American experiment in self-government
The next generation
- A government that never uses force against people who have not violated someone’s rights
Closing message to voters
- Society is falling apart – the answer is not to abandon freedom, but to double down on it!