Don’t Vote Ellmore: Part 3
Posted by tomjefferson on June 5, 2008
If you need more of a reson to participate in this election then look at Amit’s platform:
- Limited Government and trusting in the American people
- Fiscal Responsibility and promoting the growth of the American economy
- Personal Freedoms and respecting the rights of the individual, the family and the people
Above all, I believe in the rule of law and respecting, defending and following the Constitution.” —Amit Singh
Economy, Taxes and Spending
- Lower reckless spending domestically and abroad to reduce the deficit
- Reduce the tax burden on individuals and families
- Lower the corporate tax rate to encourage business and job growth
- End earmark abuse
- Adjust capital gains and interest taxes for inflation
- Reduce regulatory burden on the economy
- End corporate welfare and other special-interest handouts
Immigration
- Punish companies who knowingly hire undocumented workers
- Cease free government handouts
- Secure the border
- Implement native country based guest worker program
Foreign Policy
- Lift sanctions and trade with more nations
- Reduce military footprint in Europe and Asia
- Force Iraqi leadership to take control of Iraq
Health Care
- Create individual tax credits and expand Health Savings Accounts
- Tort and regulatory reform to lower insurance costs
- Create incentives for healthy lifestyle choices
Energy and Environment
- Expand domestic oil and natural gas production
- Allow expansion of nuclear power and other alternatives
- Repeal ethanol subsidies and mandates
- Promote green technologies
- Oppose ineffective treaties that only export pollution
Civil Rights & Civil Liberties
- Opposed to the REAL ID
- Reform unconstitutional portions of the “PATRIOT Act”
- Respect civil rights and civil liberties
Education
I believe in parental and student choice in education. Not all students fit into the same mold, and not all students learn the same way. Therefore, it does not make sense to send all children to a public school with one curriculum and one agenda set by a few select politicians inside the Beltway. Education should be localized and left up to the parents. Mandatory national standards such as those established by No Child Left Behind provide a lowest common denominator for all students and is made even worse when the funding is not available for it. We need to lessen the federal bureaucracy in education and respect state, parental and students’ rights because when they are empowered to make a difference they will.
Transportation
Virginia motorists pay a federal fuel tax to the extent of 18.3 cents per gallon on gasoline and 21 cents per gallon on diesel fuel. This tax goes into the Federal Highway Trust Fund, which returns these fuel tax revenues to the states for their highway and transit projects. The problem is that states such as Virginia pay far more into the system than we get back. The result is that Virginians get the short end of the stick while states such as Alaska are building multi-million dollar bridges to no where. As your Congressman, I will demand that Northern Virginia gets its fair share of the funds from the Trust.
-TJ
