Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives - Minnesota 4th Congressional District in 2022 Minnesota Primary Election.
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Get StartedJerry Silver opposes the use of public funds to groups that perform or promote abortion, like Planned Parenthood, as long as they continue to provide or refer elective abortions or sell fetal body parts. He supports legislation, at the State and Federal levels, that makes it a crime to acquire, transfer or sell fetal tissue from elective abortions for research purposes, and will fight to re-impose the bans on fetal tissue research that the Biden Administration overturned administratively last year. Learn more
Jerry Silver is a firm believer in the right to personal privacy and property, and in giving workers the right to decide whether to join a labor union. Additionally, Jerry Silver knows that you have the right to form organizations based upon your set of religious beliefs including where you worship, charities that help people, along with schools and hospitals. Learn more
Jerry supports such efforts as accountability courts, drug courts, Veterans treatment courts and guidance by faith-based institutions that have proven track records of rehabilitation for first-time, non-violent offenders. Restorative justice, in some cases, can work to make the victim whole and put the offender back on the right path. Learn more
Jerry Silver supports options for learning, including home-schooling, career and technical education, private or parochial schools, magnet schools, charter schools, online learning, and early-college high schools, along with education savings accounts (ESAs), vouchers, and tuition tax credits to help pay for it. Parents must have access to increased choices for their children’s education. Learn more
Jerry Silver knows that the proper stewardship of our natural resources and agricultural lands is through scientific principles and constitutionally-guaranteed property rights. Protecting our environment is important, but Jerry Silver doesn’t want environmentalists obstructing either stewardship of the environment or economic progress through their radical political agenda that deviates from common sense practices in forest, wetlands and wildlife management. Jerry Silver also wants those who cause pollution to bear the cost and responsibility of the clean-up efforts. Learn more
Jerry Silver supports the development of all forms of energy that are marketable in a free economy without subsidies, including coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear power, and hydropower, and encourages the development of renewable energy sources including wind, solar, biomass, biofuel, geothermal, and tidal energy, through the private capital markets. Learn more
Jerry Silver fully supports the Second Amendment and understands that it protects your right to keep and bear arms. Self-defense and the defense of others is a fundamental human right, and Jerry Silver supports removing any restrictions on self-defense. Learn more
Jerry Silver knows that genuine market competition and granting people choices will make health care more affordable and of higher quality, rather than increased government mandates. Jerry Silver knows that the choice of treatment must be between the doctor and an informed patient, not the government regulators. Learn more
Jerry knows that our immigration policy needs to serve the national interest of the United States, and that the American worker needs to be protected from foreign nationals seeking the same jobs. Illegal immigration is an insult to all who have entered America legally. Learn more
Jerry Silver supports infrastructure projects that are based on civil engineering, in order to provide for clean water, safe roads, rail, bridges, ports and airports and opposes using infrastructure for social engineering schemes like the exclusively urban vision of dense housing and government transit that is currently being advocated in Washington, D.C. and St. Paul. Learn more
Jerry Silver supports the effort for Minnesota and other states to award their electoral votes along Congressional district lines with the state popular vote winner gaining the two at-large votes. This is a process that is fair and makes presidential elections even more competitive. Learn more
Jerry Silver is in favor of reducing the size of the national debt through cutting Federal spending and is unequivocally in favor of a Balanced Budget Amendment. Learn more
Economic Prosperity Jerry Silver believes that economic prosperity is driven by people and not the government. Jerry Silver supports lowering the tax burden put in place by government by exercising fiscal restraint and giving businesses the opportunity to be competitive in the marketplace. Learn more
Jerry Silver knows that wherever tax rates penalize thrift or discourage investment, they must be lowered and where the tax code provides disincentives for economic growth, they must be changed. We cannot divide the American people into winners and losers. Jerry Silver wants to eliminate as many special interest provisions and loopholes as possible and curb corporate welfare, especially where their erosion of the tax base has created pressure for higher rates. Jerry wants every taxpayer to understand just how much of their income is consumed by the federal government. Learn more
Jerry Silver knows that protecting Social Security is vital to our future. He accepts the responsibility to preserve and modernize the Social Security system, while still opposing tax increases for solving the social security crisis. Jerry Silver knows that we have a moral obligation to fulfill the promise to those who trusted our government’s word. Learn more
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