John Adams
For Authentic Conservatives
The following are answers to an online questionnaire offered by the “Columbus Dispatch.”
I want to thank the "Columbus Dispatch" for offering a forum for all candidates for elected offices to share their ideas concerning the critical issues of our time.
I've been a Republican my entire adult life. I'm proud of being a Republican, proud of being an Authentic Conservative Republican, proud of standing up for the Republican platform, all of it, not just parts.
"COLUMBUS DISPATCH" QUESTIONS
What do you propose to do about improving the economy and creating jobs?
Paramount: Do not allow the “Spreading of our tax dollars” economic philosophy to take root.
We must take action to:
1. Unleash our energy sector. We have hundreds of years of recoverable natural resources in our soil. Oil, gas, coal. Stop sending our money overseas. Employ Americans.
Energy = Economy =Jobs. We can do this as we transition to renewable energy sources.
2. Stabilize long term taxes to help create certainty about our future.
3. Reduce regulations and restrictions on commercial activity to only what is necessary.
4. Promote increased sources of funding in order to expand our economy.
5. Lower our tax rates to allow the entrepreneurs, individuals and families to keep more of their produced revenue, and with a promise not to raise taxes for the foreseeable future.
6. Stop printing money that devalues the dollar, and quit borrowing money from foreign countries. Both are wrong. Look at home, look to American small businesses, who create about two-thirds of all new jobs.
7. Stop bailing out private sector companies and financial institutions.
8. Sell all government owned stock back to private investors.
9. Work to balance our Federal budget.
10. Require a three-fifths majority vote by Congress to impose any new tax.
Should banks, mortgage companies and other financial institutions be more tightly regulated?
If so, how?
Yes, additional regulations are needed, but the debate will be “how much” and “by whom”.
Action that Congress must take now is to stop the use of our tax dollars being used for
executive bonuses in these financial institutions.
New regulations should focus on developing a comprehensive program that:
a) stays within a single reporting chain for,
b) financial service providers, including non-bank providers, and
c) products sold in the financial marketplace, and
d) end users, of both the institutions and the products.
The temptation to be avoided is trying to write regulations to
“prevent a future financial collapse from ever happening again”,
which, on its face is patently impossible, and would both stifle the
marketplace and limit individual and business end-users access to
capital. This would discourage free enterprise and capitalism, in general.
Do you support current American policy in Iraq and Afghanistan, or would you change it?
We must give our troops the support and the supplies they need. We must give them the tools they need to succeed. We must allow them to complete their mission and to show the world that we are still the greatest Nation on the face of this good earth. And then, we must bring our men and women home … bring them home as winners, because to us, they are winners, they are winners for every sacrifice they make, every minute of every single day!
Do you favor a time certain for a pullout of both countries?
No.
Do you agree with the U.S. Supreme Court campaign finance decision that corporations, labor unions and other entities have a First Amendment right to spend money on elections in virtually unlimited fashion? If not, what would be the best way Congress could respond to the decision?
No. This ruling allows labor unions and corporations to control elected officials with unlimited financial support. In my campaign, I refuse to accept contributions from any special money interest groups. I am not beholden to anyone, nor any group. Folks, this is a Big Deal.
Should the Guantanamo Bay prison housing suspected terrorists be closed?
No, it should stay open and expanded. “Three hots and a cot.”
Should all suspected terrorists be held on U.S. soil and tried through the regular U.S. courts?
No, they should be tried in a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay. They have no United States Constitutional Rights. They must be treated as enemy combatants.
Is global warming a problem that Congress needs to tackle through legislation, and as soon as possible?
No.
If so, what legislative solution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions do you support?
No legislative action is required.
If Congress does not pass climate-change legislation, should greenhouse-gas emissions be regulated by the EPA?
Absolutely not. The concept, and subsequent action, that the EPA would usurp the authority of Congress would be a violation of our Constitution. The EPA does not make the laws of our Nation, Congress does.
What is the best way to control rising health-care costs and extend affordable coverage to uninsured Americans?
Paramount: Do not to allow our government to control our health care in America. The push for health care now is more about Government controlling our individual lives and our Freedom, than health care.
Congress should act to:
1. Allow healthcare to be sold across state lines. This would drop the cost of premiums to all Americans, immediately.
2. Implement tort reform. Frivolous lawsuits could be addressed by making the law firms for the plaintiff responsible for any costs incurred to bring the suit, if they lose. Currently, the law firms for the plaintiff have no risk in bringing a frivolous lawsuit. Medical insurance cost will come way down, which translates into lower patient costs.
3. Make policies portable. If people could carry their health care policy with them, they would not be locked into potentially distasteful jobs, if they had a chance to move on. This extends the ability for people to continue to access healthcare without interruption.
4. Eliminate the denial of insurance due to pre-existing conditions.
Should all Americans be required to have health insurance and, if so, what's the best way to do that?
Absolutely not. Our Constitutional government cannot require any American citizen to buy anything. If this legislation passes and it includes a requirement to purchase, I will be the first American to offer myself for arrest, for refusing to purchase a government order to purchase health care insurance. I will pay for my own housing in prison, and when processed through our court system, will give to the judge a copy of our United States Constitution and rest my case.
Do you believe the $787 billion stimulus package was an effective way to aid the economy?
Absolutely not. This was a horrendous, massive waste of our tax dollars and borrowed money, a debt that has been thrown on the backs of our children and grandchildren. If we cannot stop this insane, run-away spending, we are doomed as a Nation.
Reject the economic philosophy of “Spreading our tax dollars.”
Is more federal spending needed to bolster the economy and create jobs, and if so, what would you advocate?
Absolutely not. Unleash our free market system.
Reject the economic philosophy of “Spreading our tax dollars.”
To balance the federal budget, federal spending on entitlements such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will have to be curbed; or the government will have to raise taxes; or both. Which approach do you prefer?
Neither.
We must:
Unleash our free market economy that will launch our Nation into a new expansionary period (“The Roaring Teens”), in which true growth will flourish. It would be like our Nation experienced during the “Roaring 20’s.”
Stop labor unions and special money interests from controlling elected officials.
Shrink the size of our federal government and reduce taxes.
Stop borrowing and printing of money, that monetizes our debt.
Stop pork-barrel earmarks, fraud, wasteful and useless programs.
Quit enslaving and indebting our children and grandchildren to these massive, unsustainable debts.
Reject the economic philosophy of “Spreading our tax dollars.”
Do you think the federal government should make gay marriage legal across the country?
No.
In 140 characters or fewer (tweet length), why are you the best candidate in this race?
I am a Conservative Republican. I will protect Life from the moment of conception. I am beholden to no one. I reject the “spreading of our tax dollars.”
Is there anything else you would like to say to voters?
The most important question in our Nation’s history is, “What is your position on abortion?” I believe that Life begins at the moment of conception and that all human life must be protected, by applying all the laws of our United States Constitution, to all of our conceived and unborn children.
I believe that abortion should be permitted, only when necessary, to prevent the death of the mother.