Stand for change
fiscal responsibility
Interstate property tax
Massive national property management companies are destroying the housing market. Buying up countless properties, jacking up the rents, and happily leaving the units vacant to claim as expenses on tax reports. While veterans go homeless, these companies rack in millions by exploiting the poorest Americans.
An Interstate Property Tax wouldn’t eliminate these companies but it would make their practices more difficult to maintain, and discourage out of state companies from holding interstate residential property. I will work to introduce a bill to tax residential property owned by a company from a different state of incorporation than that of the property. This tax would start at 2% of Assessed Property Value, and increase to 3.5% on property exceeding $1,000,000 in Assessed Property Value.
hoarding tax
Trickle down economics failed. The rich got richer, the poor got poorer; and the American Dream is dead. A family used to be able to live on a single honest income; buy a home, go on vacation, and live an honest life. Somehow the stock market breaks records every decade, and yet most households still have to live on two or more fulltime incomes.
We can’t keep believing that one day we will be that rich too; because at this rate unless you win the lottery or go viral there isn’t a chance. Instead let’s tax the hoarding of wealth. All wealth exceeding 100x the median net worth should be taxed at 2% or greater to discourage hoarding; encourage companies, investors, and owners to spend their wealth, pay their employees a fair wage, and trickle down their hoards. The money raised from this tax could easily pay off our national debt, and help grow our economy; however instead of at the expense of the middle class, this time we’ll expect the top 1% to pitch in.
automation tax
With the development of AI and automation, more and more jobs are being outsourced to robots. As these jobs leave the market there aren’t clear alternatives for the human workers that are being pushed out. We can slow the progress of technology, but ultimately innovation will prevail.
An Automation Tax is a first step to preparing the economy for the loss of potentially millions of jobs to robots and AI. I will work with partners in congress to develop a tax that discourages the mass firing of workers, addresses the challenges of taxing a process that is already decades in process, and prepares the economy for the future we should have already been preparing for.
middle class tax rates
The middle class have paid their fair share, they work long hours, raise their kids on their own, and build this country brick by brick. For too long the government, paid for by millionaire elites, has taxed the middle class for every penny they could; while allowing the richest Americans to exploit lucrative loopholes to avoid tax responsibility.
I will not vote for any spending bill that doesn’t reduce taxes for middle class Americans, and raise taxes on the highest earners. In my proposed tax plan; earners under $250k would see less or the same tax responsibility. While those earning over $250k would see an increase. We can not expect those paying for this country’s growth with their blood, sweat, and tears; to pay again with their hard earned dollar.
military spending
The U.S maintains the largest military in the world with more than 13% of our federal budget being allocated for defense. We could reduce our spending by half and still be the largest military in the world, with greater spending than Russia and China combined.
I will refuse to vote for a budget that doesn’t reduce defense spending by at least 25% and will push for a reduction of 50% by 2030. DOGE spent the last year taking a chainsaw to your benefits, your programs, your future; while ignoring waste in the places it is most obvious places.