Candidate for Hawaii House of Representatives - District 27 in 2024 Hawaii Primary Election.
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The current “common core” based curriculum in our K-12 classrooms does more for preparing the students for standardized tests than it does for preparing them for post high school education and careers. We can do a better job by focusing more on teaching the students how to learn, how to reason, how to problem solve, how to troubleshoot, how to research, and how to analyze. Those skills on the “how” will serve the students far better than the standard based test knowledge in whatever life paths they choose to pursue after high school. Learn more
We need to migrate to a more distributed utility grid to help protect it from disasters and from bad actors. The recent lava flow that destroyed the Puna Geothermal Venture on the Big Island took out 30% of the island’s electrical power production. Through some early research, the most practical approach appears to be a transition to smaller neighborhood or community renewable energy farms that are manged from a central location. We need to protect the beauty of Hawai’i and respect our natural ‘Aina in the implementation of this approach. Learn more
Remand services and programs to private enterprise wherever possible. Learn more
Restrict the size and growth of government to match the private sector. Learn more
Congressional term duration and term limit reform. Learn more
Medicare-for-All Isn’t the Solution for Universal Health Care. Learn more
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is going to implode. ACA was rushed legislation ahead of a mid-term election cycle. It is over 2300 pages of an inefficient and ineffective legislation mess. It did provide insurance to many people who were previously uninsured, but with ineffective sustainability it rapidly became the Unaffordable Care Act. We need to take action to replace ACA as soon as we can. I have a comprehensive health care reform approach that takes incremental steps to gradually migrate the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Medicaid, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, and eventually, the Veterans Health Administration into a unified nationally-guided health care system of private health care and health insurance providers covering all Americans. Learn more
I propose a dynamic needs-based immigration policy that allows for a higher immigration rate when unemployment is low and a lower immigration rate when unemployment is high. I propose making the immigration process more like an application for those jobs where the market data indicates the need. I propose prioritizing the needs-based immigration in accepting immigrants from countries that are under represented in America’s population diversity over those that are more highly represented. I propose capacity based compassion for humanitarian immigration. Learn more
We need to revise the tax reform passed in December 2017 to make the individual income tax cuts permanent. They are currently set to expire at the end of 2025. We also need to address the mortgage interest deduction cap of 750,000. Learn more
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