What is going on?

A Fractured Country

The U.S. political system wants us to believe we are divided. Right vs Left no longer exists in the U.S. or in Idaho. Both sides are opposed to 1A and 2A. They both want more money from us and more rules for us.

A Fractured Party

The traditional Republican Party in Idaho has been taken over by RINOs who want to impose their rules on the rest of us. What we need is for fiscally conservative small government Republicans to step up and replace the socialist, anti-freedom, big government politicians.

A Fractured Economy

The rich keep getting richer while working families struggle to survive. This is causing a strong shift to the left politically. People everywhere are blaming capitalism for our problems and are pushing us towards more socialism. Businesses have only three choices:

1. Take care of your workers and their families.

2. Pay more taxes to have the government take care of your workers and their families.

3. Have more regulations of make businesses take care of their workers and their families.

It is the business culture that is broken, not the system. Pay your workers first and everyone wins.

MY PLATFORM

Get Money Out of Politics

Donating to political parties and candidates is just a money laundering scheme. They want you to spend your money knowing that third party candidates have no chance of beating the political establishment and their money machine. I am not accepting any donations from individuals or businesses. I have no money of my own, so I will be relying on free press and word of mouth to get my message out.

My Proposal

If elected, I want to invert the political system in Idaho and make counties and local government the top layer. County governments are more democratic because your elected representatives are your neighbors and are easily replaced if they get out of line. They share your social and economic community. They go to your same stores, churches and schools. Big government urban politicians couldn't care less about our rural communities.

A lot of politicians are calling for ending property tax. Property taxes fund your local government services. The state will determine how much your community gets and how you can use your land. This would also be an enormous gift to the ultra wealthy, as usual, who have substantial real estate holdings and no means of avoiding the tax.

The Sub-State Political Layer

This is key to ending the polarization that is crippling our country. It can be a model for every U. S. state with blue cities and red rural counties. This is a far simpler approach than a national divorce or moving state borders.

A Sub-State is an autonomous federation of counties that share a common social and economic environment. These virtual states would have their own rules and regulations, taxes and budgets. One or more counties can create a sub-state and additional counties can join, with approval of the existing member counties. The sub-state capital and member counties don't need to be in Idaho or adjacent to other sub-states. A county in Washington or Oregon and declare independence from their state government and join the Idaho state government.The state borders don't change and neither would their addresses. The only thing that moves is their government alliance.

An example of an urban sub-state would be the Boise area metropolitan counties. The existing state government services, offices, and workers would simply move from the state level to the sub-state level.

Lewiston would be a good rural community capital, being a sea port and at the intersection of 2 major US highways (US 12 and US 95) serving agriculture, ranching, timber, lumber, mining, trucking industries.

Horizontal vs Vertical Growth

The sub-states can implement policies that attract more people and more businesses to widen their economy or implement policies that lift our existing businesses and people without bringing in Californian or foreign immigrants.

The State of Idaho

The existing state government would be the bottom layer in the new political structure. The state government should only be concerned with statewide issues that benefit the entire state and that everyone can agree needs to be done. The only statewide offices should be transportation/highways/road and fuel taxes and the secretary of state. Keeping our roads safe is of utmost importance for Idaho. The overall economic policies of Idaho should be small government, minimal regulations, and support local businesses. The state legislature could work one week per year and get paid $100 per day. The state income tax and sales tax would go away. If all the counties in eastern Washington and eastern Oregon joined Idaho, the population of Idaho would be more than 3.5 million.