Tennessee Congressional Election 2018 Political Courage Test

Abortion

1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-life

2. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Budget

1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- No

2. In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
- No

3. Other or expanded principles
- Right now, we need to reinvigorate our military equipment and with multiple active demands on our soldiers, we do need to pay them well for their service. The bureaucratic, red tape spending could use some reduction but much of our military equipment is old and we need it updated. Careful examination of the cost of suppliers on the other hand is also needed.

Campaign Finance

1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Yes

2. Other or expanded principles
- Within reason, of course. Large campaign and PAC donations usually come with strings.

Economy

1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- No

2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes

3. Other or expanded principles
- Lowering taxes, cleanning up laws, regulations and hoops to jump through always unleashes economic growth.

Education

1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- No

2. Other or expanded principles
- At most, the Federal Government should offer base guidelines so a diploma from Tennessee should be as qualifying as one from New York or California. Beyond that, the Federal Government needs to get out of the Education industry altogether.

Energy & Environment

1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- No

2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- No

3. Other or expanded principles
- The market needs to seek those ends. Certainly there is reason to protect the air from toxic substances and those that can be proven to do environmental damage and poisons but most of that is supposed to be handled at the State level. However, one State such as California should not have enough environmental power to interfere with the rest of the republic unless they want to pay for the infrastructure to ensure compliance with their designs.

Guns

1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- No

2. Other or expanded principles
- I typically invite gun grabbing politicians to come and try to take mine but the rule is, they have to do it themselves, without armed guards or law enforcement.

Health Care

1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- Yes

2. Other or expanded principles
- Yes and repealing many other medical interference acts from the last century as well.

Immigration

1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- Yes

2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- Yes

3. Other or expanded principles
- Citizenship in the United States is a privelege, either by birth or by earning it. If someone sneaks into my home, they are going to either leave voluntarily, in the back of a police car or in the back of a coroners van. Illegal immigration constitutes invasion and Article 4 requires the Federal Government to protect us from that.

Marijuana

1. Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
- Unknown Position

2. Other or expanded principles
- For recreational purposes, I am on the fence about that. I would like to know more about why it was put on schedule 1 in the first place as well as current medical understanding of it. For medical purposes though, I do support that.

National Security

1. Should the United States use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a nuclear weapon?
- No

2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
- No

3. Other or expanded principles
- I don't believe military force should be totally off the table when it comes to dealing with hostile Nations and regimes but we are not the world's police. We should certainly stand by our allies as they need and request as well as honor our Constitutionally ratified treaties but we spend way too much blood and treasure to try and "civilize" the rest of yhe world when our responsibility is here at home.

Administrative Priorities

Please explain in a total of 100 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- First, stop paying for the rest of the world. While we all want to stand by human rights for others, if you want that, do it through charity. Put the needs of our veterans and citizens over the needs of other parts of the world. Cut wasteful spending and start paying down the debt. Return to Constitutional governing, if it is not in the Constitution, it should be handled by the State and local government. Certainly there is need for federal law but it must be limited for the sake of liberty.