JOHN'S PRIORTIES

I believe parents and local school boards are best equipped to determine appropriate curricula, standards, and use of funds for their schools. I will work to implement policies giving parents more control over how the school funds are utilized. I support the idea that Federal Government should not be dictating what schools must teach. That should be the local government matter. I support local accountability with the need for funding equity across districts. Empowering the voices most invested in our schools – parents and their boards – is key to giving our next generation the tools to succeed.

Our Military personnel need the most comprehensive and advanced Veteran care services. Issues such as PTSD are causing serious problems in families. We need to think out of the box to improve care. We need to invest more in recruitment and increase support of strategic readiness. We should let the military commander make their decisions while keeping politics out.

Plumbers, electricians, HVAC, and neighborhood hardware and retail stores are the backbone of our communities. But small businesses face unfair disadvantages competing against large corporations. Often large corporations impose unreasonable contract demands that are difficult to contest. 

I am the ONLY candidate with over 35 years of small business experience! I have generated hundreds of local jobs in Virginia over the last 35 years. I know what small businesses can do to our economy. I also know what they go through to survive and thrive.

I propose a TAX CUT for small businesses upto $ 250,000.

Income Tax reductions given to wall street and large corporations often does not reach small businesses and neighborhoods. But Income Tax reduction given directly to small businesses will benefit everyone in the community. 

Small businesses spearhead the local economies, and they help neighborhoods thrive. Ny goal is to offer tools for small businesses to prosper and make SBA accessible to more small businesses.

I propose innovative Income Tax reductions for small businesses over the next 5 to 10 years.

In Congress, I will support legislation that levels the playing field by providing small business owners with affordable legal services and a dedicated advocacy office to mitigate predatory practices of some large businesses prying on strugling small businesses. With the right support, small businesses can thrive and continue driving local economies.

 In Congress, I will work towards reducing federal taxes on medium and lower-income families while opposing any attempt to increase the taxes.

Social Security is a covenant made by our government. I would not vote to reduce the benefits or change the promises made. At the same time, people should have the freedom to make their own choices.  I support an opt-in or a hybrid model for future Social Security participants.

Our nation’s roads and railway infrastructures are aging and failing our people. The gridlock experienced by every driver in the Washington DC metro area is unacceptable for a developed nation like ours and I’m going to fix it!  It’s not just an annoying inconvenience, but it holds back productivity and even takes us away from spending time with our families.  When I go to Washington the excuses end on day one!

I will work on funding an integrated transportation infrastructure for the Washington area that is second to none in the world.  

We must secure our borders. It is a national secuirty issue.

America is a country of immigrants. People like Albert Einstein, Elon Musk and Melania Trump are all immigrants who made and continue to make our country proud.  That doesn’t mean we should have open and unregulated borders.  Having open borders is neglectful and abusive to our citizens and residents who have imigrated legally and contributing to our economy.  

I will build the wall, but that will be just one part of my approach. I will build consensus to fix the broken immigration system!

America’s national security doctrine needs an overhaul and it needs it NOW!  The current policy of funding and arming dictators, tyrants, and despots to push an economic agenda as long as it suits us and then bombing them when it doesn’t, is not a sound national security policy. It has made us less safe. 

For example, our policies towards a communist China for the past 50 years have resulted in that country challenging America in every sphere.  

America’s policies in Afghanistan and Central Asia brought us 9/11 while our policies in SE Asia have not stopped North Korea from developing Nuclear Weapons.  Our policies in Nigeria and the rest of West Africa have only exhausted the goodwill we enjoyed. Our policies in South America have destabilized many nations and created a massive wave of desperate migrants who are coming here to burden our taxpayers and our infrastructure.  

I will propose a new national security doctrine grounded in the values we preach and unapologetically puts American interest first.