Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives - New York 19th Congressional District in 2020 New York General Election.
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Get StartedA civilized society does not allow people to die or suffer unnecessarily because they are poor. Because any public benefit must be available to all, I advocate for providing direct Treasury funding to build and maintain state health centers that will offer quality service at low cost and free care after the patient pays a sliding-scale deductible that would be about equal to what people pay in yearly premiums now. Learn more
Require community service to support welfare programs, not punishment. We need to decriminalize drugs (drug use is a health problem) and end the imprisonment of all non-violent offenders. Focusing on restorative justice rather than on retribution is a more effective way of addressing crime. Learn more
End the Federal Reserve and end 90% of income tax. Allowing the Federal Reserve to create U.S. dollars has allowed the top 1% to control most of the money and wield the political power that goes with this. The U.S. Treasury should have the sole power to create US dollars, and only for public infrastructure projects — roads, mass transit, hospitals, energy grids, schools, and fiber broadband. New dollars created for this purpose would be backed by the value of the infrastructure assets that will return user fees. Learn more
Any Federal support for higher education should be used solely for public benefit not private benefit. I support Federally-funded scholarships at highly competitive state colleges and universities to train public sector workers in healthcare, law, civil engineering, education, and social services. Learn more
End government supported pollution. While many Democrat environmentalists may be lobbying representatives to try to get them to spend billions of dollars fighting pollution, Libertarian environmentalists want government to stop spending billions of dollars creating pollution. Learn more
A low tariff on all imports should be used as a source of Federal revenue, not as a means to manipulate markets or to provide protection for weak U.S. industries. Learn more
I advocate slashing the military and intelligence budgets to a figure adequate for maintaining a strong defense only. Learn more
Federal, state, and local governments should primarily be concerned with enforcing the law and operating as a construction and maintenance department for public infrastructure, building, equipping and maintaining transportation systems, communication systems, and energy grids, as well as public hospitals and schools. I do not see a role for government in running those systems or institutions. Instead, the people who use and manage the systems should have local democratic control of them and run them like non-profit cooperative corporations. Learn more
We need a people’s veto and cooperatively-run public agencies and programs. If elected, I will give my constituents the opportunity to vote on each bill before it goes to the floor using a secure online blockchain system. Learn more
We need to secure the integrity of U.S. elections by using paper ballots, non-proprietary software or blockchain-protected ballot-counting machines and Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV). To reduce the unfair advantage that some candidates have in elections, information about all candidates on the ballot should be mailed to all registered voters and all public debates should be open to all candidates on the ballot Learn more
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