Candidate for New Hampshire State Senate - District 5 in 2024 New Hampshire General Election.
View your personalized ballot, check your voter registration, make a plan to vote, and research every name and measure on the ballot with BallotReady.
Get StartedAmerica's economic success and the success of the individual is based on a free market system. Economic freedom, respect for property rights and adherence to the rule of law is necessary for the free enterprise system to function. Job growth and economic growth is more robust in states with economic freedom, lower taxes and less bureaucratic regulation. Real wage growth occurs when productivity of the worker improves or worker output increases. As we have all seen lately, legislation of increased wages only serves to decrease employment and increase prices of goods overall. The market has done a good job setting wages of late. Learn more
High expectations and attention to skills in reading, science and math is the best promoter of success throughout the history of this nation. Statewide skills tests with standard expectations and correct accommodations would help to decrease differences between school districts in curriculum. Personal finance and civics classes would be helpful to encourage financial responsibility and community civic responsibility. Civics classes are an essential part of the educated citizen learning about how our Constitutional Federal Republic was born, how our systems and institutions work, and how this form of government has resulted in the greatest standard of living and greatest force for good throughout the world in history. Citizens educated in the foundation principles are the best route to civil and productive political discourse, and the solution to many of the political divisions that plaque us today. The tradition of education to welcome patriotic assimilation into our "can do" American culture should be encouraged. School should be a place to teach and encourage responsibility. Learn more
We need to promote responsible harvesting of energy locally and nationally, at prices allowing our citizenry to prosper; meanwhile, we must sensibly promote the cost-competitive move toward cleaner energy based on available and advancing technology. We need to plan for a future with higher electricity demand, in the setting of an aging Seabrook Nuclear plant, so that the ratepayers are not hostage to imported electricity rates. This should include incremental replacement of Seabrook's baseload with a latest technology nuclear energy plant which functions at a fraction of the cost and improved safety over prior technology. Learn more
Access to healthcare is important, but more important is access to great healthcare when you really need it. Universal health care does not ensure this. In fact, it limits access. Emphasis on government controlled, universal single payer eliminates quality, and puts control and decision making in the hands of bureaucrats, eliminating recourse and limiting availability or access. Governments systems control cost by limiting access to cutting edge technology, high cost medicines and fixing prices of doctors, procedures, and medicines. When you fix prices, you necessarily make them scarce. ( If the government fixes the prices of pharmaceuticals, the private financing of late stage drug development will decrease, and the US will no longer be the largest source of drug research and development in the world.) It is no mistake that the best system in the world is in the United States. People rarely leave the United States for Canada or Europe for health care, but the opposite is a common occurrence. Competition and transparency are two factors that guarantee the best access to the highest level of care. We must improve price transparency, allow more competition, (with imaging centers for example) and decrease the bureaucracy that impedes access, with a system that protects patients first. Fierce competition of insurers for First party payers, where the person who pays is also the consumer, guarantees both price and quality; conversely third party payers do not care about price if they are not paying, and do not care about quality if they are not consuming. Government has no incentive to care about either price or quality, because they are spending your tax money for a service they don't consume. The Affordable Care Act may have increased the number of insured, and helped with preexisting conditions but it failed terribly to reduce costs. The ACA also decreased transparency and incentive for quality with third party payer dynamics. Learn more
View your personalized ballot, check your voter registration, make a plan to vote, and research every name and measure on the ballot with BallotReady.