Education is the foundation to living a free life. The ability to read, be educated, and educate oneself is such a foundation of freedom, that chattel slaves were prohibited from reading and from being educated. To preserve a free society, every child must be given the same resources and opportunities for education. This means having classrooms that are no more than 20 children to a teacher. This means having schools with state of the art HVAC systems to ensure children can focus on their education despite what climate induced weather anomalies that may be present that day. This means schools that have the most updated books, quality science instruments, and art supplies that stimulate the most important commodity a child has to develop, their creativity. The ingenuity of America has always been derived from creativity and imagination of everyday people. 

In Nordic countries, they have abolished all private schools and the result was that the quality of education rose around the country for every socioeconomic group. It seems that when the rich are forced to send their children to public schools, the rich will invest in those public schools which has the side effect of helping poor people. This would most likely run afoul of the constitution, but Congress has the power to levy taxes. 

I would propose legislation that taxes private schools with a progressive tax system. The money collected from this new tax would be distributed equitably to public school systems around the country to ensure every student has the same quality of education throughout the nation. 

For Connecticut District Three, I want to propose legislation that would give public school teachers

• a starting salary of at least 85k a year

• a federal income tax break for public service

And legislation that would allow school districts to

• hire enough teachers so that classroom sizes do not exceed 20 students 

• revamp school HVAC systems to maintain optimal environmental conditions for children to learn

• provide free school lunches to those who cannot afford lunch

If we truly care about our children, why not show it by providing well funded schools with teachers that are given the resources they need to not have to worry about anything but ensuring our children are safe, healthy, and educated!

The genocide in Palestine is the defining moral and ethical crisis of our time — one that will test, and ultimately judge, our humanity. It is connected to so many other urgent struggles: while our communities struggle to meet basic needs, those carrying out these atrocities have everything they require. First and foremost, the inhumanity of what the Palestinians have had to endure and the series of atrocities they’ve been subjected to by Israel since the Nakba in 1948  (if not the British under Mandatory Palestine in 1918) with the support and cover of the United States government  is a stain on our country and our humanity. How can we be the champions of human rights if we allow a genocide to be live streamed and allow it to continue? All human life is precious. What happened to the Jewish People during the Holocaust was a particularly foul flavor of pure evil. However, being the victim of a genocide does not give you the moral authority to commit another genocide and pointing that out should not be labeled anti-semitic. The question I ask, how is committing genocide in the name of Judaism not anti-semitic as it stains the loving nature of the Jewish Religion and the wonderful people I know who practice it? Palestine is a great example of intersectionality of issues. Since October 7, 2023, the occupation in Gaza has emitted the annual emissions of over 100 individual countries. If our government did not send $325M of CT taxpayer money to Israel to use on the Gazans, 204,005 Connecticut Households could have one month's free rent, or 684,667 Connecticut Families could have one month's free groceries, or 3,552 Connecticut Elementary school teachers' salaries could be paid for one year, or 926,372 Connecticut Households could have solar electricity produced for a year, or 113,217 Connecticut Children could have access to free or low-cost healthcare for one year. And a lot of this can be explained by the fact that AIPAC has bought off most of our politicians including Rosa DeLauro. If I run for Congress, I do not want any of their money or support. The responsibility of a representative is to the people they represent, not AIPAC or other corporate interests. I would go as far as to say, AIPAC must be forced to register as a Foreign Lobbying Group. There will never be a Free Palestine until the AIPAC cannot buy off our politicians.   

The partition of Palestine should never have been sanctioned by the UN. But we cannot go back in time and the reality of the situation is there are now many people in Israel that know no other home either. 

I am proposing reunifying Palestine with the Kingdom of Israel reborn. I propose renegotiating the Abraham Accords with regional nations to establish a E.U. Schengen Area style border-free travel zone encompassing the traditional borders of Greater Israel/Kingdom of Israel for former citizens of Israel to ensure that the Jewish people can travel freely throughout their biblical lands without contesting the sovereignty of current nations. They would become citizens of the country they decide to settle down in but have travel rights to the new Kingdom of Israel. Palestine would be recognized as a single state encompassing the lands of Mandatory Palestine. There would be an Immediate return of all land after the 1948 partition to Palestinians. Phased reintegration of Palestinians into former Israel. Separate but equal has never worked in history. The key to peace is integration of cultures, and I believe integration is hard to achieve with two states.

The Jewish people deserve to live in peace wherever they see fit. And they deserve to be safe. But everyone else in the region must not live in fear under threat of attack from the IDF. Therefore this plan calls for the dissolution of the IDF that is replaced with UN Peacekeeping forces (including forming IDF soldiers that did not serve in Gaza or West Bank, Lebanon, or Syria) stationed throughout the Greater Israel Jewish free travel zone. 

21st Centrury Nuremberg Trials for all of those who aided in genocide including Benjamin Netenyahu, Itimar Ben-Gvir, <the current (2025) majority government of Israel>, senior IDF,  Joseph R. Biden. Kamala Harris, Anthony Blinken, Donald J. Trump, JD Vance, Marco Rubio.

This position does not equate to calling for genocide against the Jewish people and to conflate it as such is egregious. The Jewish people have been historically persecuted and deserve the same respect and safety as anyone else. But since its inception, the Colonial Settler State of Israel has committed violence and genocide using the historical suffering of Jewish people as pretext, and to me that’s the real anti-semitism.  Judaism is a religion of love and not one that condones the mass starving of innocent people. In addition, the Jewish people shouldn’t need to colonize another people’s land to feel safe. I want the Jewish community to feel safe around the world, especially in America where their cultural, musical, entertainment, science, and history has enriched the fabric of America for generations!

There are many moments throughout American history that should give us a sense of national pride, however, there were many atrocities committed along the way. One of those atrocities was that of chattel slavery. For almost 100 years, a nation conceived around the idea of freedom, enslaved millions of black people stolen from Africa. In 1865 when slavery was technically abolished (see section on Prison Reform) Abraham Lincoln said that each freed slave would receive 40 acres and a mule as reparations for what the United States did to them. Lincoln was assassinated and 160 years later reparations are still to be made. Until this long overdue act is achieved and a formal apology for slavery is issued by the United States government, I feel that our country will never be able to move forward united. 

I would propose legislation to identify the descendants of former slaves and provide the reparations promised to their ancestors adjusted for inflation, and normalized to the average increase of value of the same amount that white people would have earned throughout the same amount of time.

I would also propose federal legislation to have increased federal investment in schools that serve predominantly black children. Investment equal to the value of lost school revenue caused by red-lining and other such racially discriminatory practices. 

Another stain on the history of America is the genocide of the indigenous people that were murdered during colonial expansion. Reparations must also be made to the remaining tribes. Reparations should include financial compensation, free access to sacred lands, repatriation of cultural artifacts and human remains, greater control over tribal sovereignty.

In addition, the Bureau of Indian Affairs should be renamed the Bureau of Indigenous Relations and should be represented in Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Justice.

Venture capitalists and investment companies like Black Stone have caused rent prices to skyrocket. When there are less houses available, house prices go up, and with stagnant wages, more and more people are priced out of the housing market. That increases the number of renters which then also raises rents. I have been fortunate to rent a home to a private landlady who has been very fair to me these last 12 years. I know others who have not had the same fortune. A friend living in her apartment complex for 15 years was suddenly facing a doubling of her rent because that complex got bought out by an investment firm. A fair rent commission was established because of that brazen move by the investment firm, but the mental anguish my friend suffered was already done. 

If I were to run for congress, I would propose the following legislation to address the renting crisis

•  yearly rent increases cannot exceed more than 1.5x the yearly rate of inflation (considerations would be made for legitimate repairs or required upgrades) 

• rental lease to new tenants cannot exceed more that 10% the previous tenants rent unless there are major upgrades to the rental space 

• rental payments would be tax deductible on federal income taxes 

• progressive taxation on the sale of rental properties to investment firms

• limit to the percentage of rental homes in a specified area being owned and/or operated by a single business or subsidiary of a parent business or conglomerate

• forced sale of rental properties to de-monopolize rental monopolies

Income inequality has reached historic proportions, some of which has not been seen since the eve of the French Revolution. If something is not done to address income inequality, I do not want to see America follow a similar path.

This platform calls for heavy taxation of the rich. I have often found arguments arise by not clearly defining certain words in a discussion. So how do I define rich? When I was a child, I thought my neighbor with the inground pool and 4000 square foot home was rich. I was wrong. These days I realized, those neighbors were not the rich. They were very well off no doubt, and probably the envy of many of those with less. But they are not the rich. I imagine that neighbor (adjusted for inflation) may have been a surgeon making 500k a year. But if that surgeon broke his hand and lost his ability to contribute labor, he would inevitably become ruined. Despite what someone making 25k, 50k, 100k or even 500k, may think of one another, we are all closer to being homeless on the stress than being who I consider the true rich. Self sustaining wealth. If a person loses their ability to contribute labor but can still sustain a lavish quality of life with just their investments. They are the rich. So when I call for taxation of the rich, I am not referring to my childhood neighbor with what he had. I am referring to the investor class, the elites, the oligarchs, or whichever word you may choose but that is what I mean by “the rich.” I was once convinced that the rich, the oligarchs worth billions, were the most intelligent and hardworking people. I believe I was fooled and now realize that the greatest asset of the oligarchs is their ability to optimize exploitation with a complete disregard for people and  the natural world. It is time we see these people for who they are, and demand that the value of our labor be returned to those truly producing the value of the economy, the workers! 

As part of my plan to tax the rich, I would propose returning to the income tax structure of the 1950s where the highest marginal tax rate was 90% and the investment in America’s public sector boomed. 

I would also propose a new progressive tax on investments. A structure that avoids penalizing 401(k) plans for those making under 1 million dollars a year but penalizes those that make investments with no real goal of innovation but to manipulate the markets through what I think of as venture capitalism malpractice. 

I would also propose legislation for business that the highest paid employee of a business can be no larger than 31x the pay of the lowest paid employee. It is my opinion that there is no labor or creative value that is equal to 31 people. In other words, I do not think there is anything any one person contributes that exceeds someone earning in one day what another would take to earn in a month. This is part of the cultural revolution away from capitalism where profit is the sole driving force. Yes, people who work harder and offer creative solutions should not be forced to limit their desires to what a student behind the register like I was in my youth could afford. But as a society where everything we do has the potential to affect others, we need to be realistic about ensuring that someone's needs are not deprived to fulfill the wants of those who are greedy.