Leading Efforts for Change
John's Agenda on the Issues
Education
I believe that the program Common Core was passed by all states to supply the guidelines of acceptable levels of learning that are achieved as a student progresses through K-12. Someone has to oversee our children’s education. States are always judged in sequence: 1, being the top state schools, to 50, being the lowest rated schools. We have shown that money is not the answer, but doing a better job is with more parental and teacher control. The children do not run the schools, although it sure seems that way to me.
Preparing the Next Generation
I believe that we should extend the school year to 210 days and adjust the schedule, allowing a summer session to maintain an equal playing field for all students. Most importantly, all students should stay in school until they graduate, with no dropouts; require full attendance for what should now be 14 years—Pre-K4 to 12th grade. Remember Jeff Foxworthy’s show, “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader”? Today, 5th graders can cruise through the G.E.D. exam. Tough programs will produce the students who will compete globally in the future. It is one thing to compete for a job because someone on an H-1B visa will work for less income, but assuredly they should not be more educationally qualified. That’s on all of us!
Fortunately, the governorships of Nathan Deal and Brian Kemp have moved the compensation of teachers up the ladder in income each year of their tenure and awarded teachers who advanced their degrees to levels of master's and doctorate.
Immigration
Immigration reform cannot wait for partisan politics; the country is too divided politically.
Senator Isakson once proposed a bill to secure the borders, but nothing was ever passed by the House of Representatives. It is my desire to have all Georgia representatives, along with a national consensus, vote with the people of America; we have now closed the borders and made them secure. I believe that this 2100-mile border should be made into a military base, a minimum of 5 miles (ca. 8 km) wide or greater, along with a new wall that can’t be penetrated or climbed over. Our military bases have always been secure, and the laws regarding trespassing are very clear, and so are its penalties. Therefore, the federal government will control the borders, and border patrol will become a military operation. What has been completed now works. Thank you, President Trump!
National Security
The people of Mexico have been oppressed and exploited for years. They live in some of the poorest conditions in the world, yet as it is shown in the U.S. with our foreign workers, they are some very hard-working people. Considering that the government of Mexico, which is known to be the most corrupt in the world except for small, powerful representative groups and agreeing political parties, this quasi-dictatorship is disguised as a democracy. Who would not want to leave (only the select few)? It is time to remove this false government and its false leaders, who are not friends to the United States, and support someone who allows the Mexican people to build their country to the standard we have in the United States. As it is said, if you help build it, they will come back! All individuals who are here illegally or have overstayed their visas, no matter what their origin, must go back to the country they came from! Our national security is at extreme risk because we have not enforced the laws that have been in place for years.
Healthcare
Medicare
This is America’s best-run program. Overhead and cost of management run less than 4% of total revenue of the program each year. That means 96 cents of every dollar goes to providing services. All veterans should be added to this program and be allowed to receive services, whatever their choice. We can raise the Medicare tax to fund this cost. Everyone should pay for our veterans!
Things easily corrected in this program:
- Eliminate fraud;
- Set an acceptable payment amount for all services;
- Negotiate minimal drug costs for all participants;
- Set lifetime limits;
- Require catastrophic insurance for all beneficiaries of the program who may exceed lifetime limits.
Options for Medicare Advantage to cover shortfalls shall be expanded to eliminate individual shortfalls and catastrophic occurrences.
Expand long-term care programs and make them a requirement.
Medi-Health
The expansion of the Medicare formula to be used by the people who do not qualify for Medicaid or Medicare.
This will be set up using the same principles as Medicare; only it will be funded by the employer/company, and the employees will receive the benefits on a reasonable share cost program. By forming Medi-Health, we can bring the cost from providers down to an amount similar to the payments made by the Medicare plan. This will also cut the management fees and profit (return to investors/stockholders) of the insurance companies. The people being insured can bid out these management fee services to the company of their choice, not to exceed the cost that a government-managed Medicare program is running (less than 4%).
Our government does not make a profit, and the management fees seem to be extremely reasonable. This is your choice, the Voter.
Eliminate the excessive increases every year. You should all understand that Medicare for the people over 65 years of age costs over $10,000 per year for each person receiving benefits, and their cost to them from Medicare is about $2,400 each.
Certain supplemental programs can cost each person an additional $2,000.
Just watch out for those non-coverage companies being paid to help save money for the program. Don’t let Granny or Grandpa get tossed over the cliff. They were the backbone of our country for the last century.
This is America. All services should be of the highest quality. Healthcare services is our best employer!
Medicaid
A lot of people believe that this program receives the most fraud and abuse in our government programs, providing healthcare to the people who can’t afford regular insurance programs, or to the people not covered by their employers, or the unemployed. Whatever the reason, these individuals, including children, look for assistance from the overall healthcare systems and the programs available to them through local, state, and federal governments, along with charitable assistance.
Any program can be improved. Just because the program has problems in management does not mean it should be scrapped and eliminated. We need to make sure that the best possible service for the lowest cost is provided. No excuses.
Do low-income people have a right to that healthcare? Yes, they do!
Remember where they are; you could be there one day too!
Call the governor of Georgia and tell him to expand Medicaid again. Just hire better people to oversee it!
Social Security
Funds must be properly managed to produce a good return.
We need to collect back the stimulus payments and recent reductions.
Separate Entity
This program is a must and should be separate from the federal budget. The 3.5 trillion dollars borrowed from the trust fund is gone, spent by your elected senators and congressmen. It’s gone! — only to be replaced by the workers of today and in the future. Tell Washington to stop printing money to pay interest on this. That’s a scam, and we really don’t know for sure how much they took. Google's ways are 2.786 trillion; it could be 5 trillion.
The Simple Fix
2026 Tax Plan Agenda
Flat Tax on Gross Revenue
Rewriting the Tax Code to a One-Sheet Filing
Major changes are required. Assist in rewriting the tax code and raise the people on the bottom of the income scale above the present poverty level and into an acceptable level of income to where all workers contribute to the cost of living in America. This eliminates the taxpayer’s biggest complaint: more than half of the people don’t pay anything in federal taxes.
Using a standard deduction developed by President Trump, people would have paid between 4% and 8% depending on what they earned. This is straight math. Also remember, the majority of these individuals should be covered by Medicare, Medicaid, or their Employers/Healthcare Plan.
I believe this additional cost for workers should be absorbed by the employers. I am sure you would pay a little more for your Big Mac or Chick-fil-A to raise these everyday workers to an acceptable standard of living they can enjoy, especially with my 15-20-205 Plan.
Convert the CORPORATE TAX to a gross tax on total revenue (sales and income). Collect a tax rate of 6% to be paid monthly to the federal government. No deduction of any type and no tax credits. Corporations have avoided paying taxes to the federal government through deductions and tax credits for years and paid their stockholders and management huge sums of money. Every company pays, which allows individuals to pay less. Eliminate the section for Non-Profits. Exempt only public schools and state universities. All businesses are corporations, no exceptions. Everyone should pay this tax. Democrats call this method a value-added tax. Who pays taxes? The end consumer, you and yours.
There will be no tax on healthcare costs paid by the employer or Employees.
Any casualty loss by the corporation should be insured fully, wherefore the Company will pay income tax on their gross income even though they sustained a casualty loss.
By changing the tax code, we are eliminating the numerous pieces of paperwork that the taxpayer must file and the IRS must review.
I have eliminated all Schedule C filings, all sole proprietorships, LLCs, and all types of partnerships that will not distribute all funds each year to the stockholder or partners. Every business is a corporation that pays this flat tax.
Therefore, all income in the future should pay this 6% flat income tax on gross revenue. This eliminates people and companies from declaring everything as an expense and showing no income.
All earners will receive a W-2 from their employer and will be taxed federally according to proposed federal/individual tax rates.
Remember, there will be no tax on Social Security or disability payments or veterans benefits. Retirement income will be taxed at the income bracket level the individual has for the tax year being filed.
Dependents will again be deducted at $4,000 each by either parent per dependent.
The new standard deduction has solved a lot of problems of filers in preparing their returns. Simple is the best! This standard deduction will increase every year.
Tax Brackets
Always under debate about who should pay and who should not.
There will be no deferments on income. All retirement holdings are taxed as income yearly, never to be taxed again. All earnings taken out of retirement holdings are tax-free after the age of 59 years, 6 months. Simply eliminate the deferred income on retirement holdings.
I have reviewed changing the tax code regarding individuals and corporations for many years and read the Fair Tax books, the Flat Tax proposal, and the Value Added Tax proposal, all of which seem to benefit the persons who have the highest income level. Why? Because high earners do not spend all of their earnings to live on. They invest them, hopefully to build their businesses and create new jobs for our children and grandchildren. Everyone wants the American Dream.
Minimum Wage
The late Senator Edward Kennedy is among many others who have tried to raise the minimum wage several times. The minimum wage should be raised immediately to $15.00 per hour, but this should only apply to workers under the age of 25, who should be in training while in school. An increase in good-paying jobs that are sustainable is the solution.
Term Limits
I believe that term limits should apply to all elected offices. Individuals in the House of Representatives should have a term of 12 years. The only exception would be for the Speaker of the House. I would give him/her four extra years. The same 12-year term limit would apply to Senators.
An individual could actually serve no more than a total of 24 years if they served in both chambers.
Speaker Newt Gingrich and Vice President Al Gore wanted to pass term limits just prior to each of them leaving office. This should be the voter’s choice, not the people in Washington. We all know how hard it is to defeat an incumbent. Shake up Washington with term limits and see what happens. Eliminate career, lifetime politicians.
