Tax Relief
Tax Relief
Lower Seniors' property tax exemption age to 62; create "circuit breaker" tax credits for fixed-income seniors & the disabled; Duplicate Tennessee's Disabled Veteran Property Tax exemption; create means-based per-county tax rates; state tax refunds not taxed as income.
Education
Tax Relief
Rewrite our 42-year-old Quality of Basic Education (QBE) formula to increase direct classroom/per-pupil funding; Restore U.S. Civics, Home Economics (Life Arts) and Industrial Arts into public school curricula; state-fund school district legal fees.
Workforce Housing
Obtain funding from targeted wasteful state spending to increase local, truly affordable quality housing; force a cap on corporate home ownership; write a law that financially punishes landlords for unrealistic rent prices and increases.
Health Care
Fight to Expand Medicare and Medicaid; Ensure at least one publicly funded, fully staffed, 24/7/365 medical clinic in every county, especially those with no hospital; impose a one-cent sales tax on all vape products to fund medical facilities.
Veterans
National Rankings
Offset federal funding and staffing cuts with reallocated state funds by eliminating corporate tax cuts & credits. Work to make all VA facilities and clinics A+ rated.
National Rankings
National Rankings
Improve Georgia's quality in Health Care (37th), Per Capita Income (33rd), Education (27th), Child/Family Well-Being (42nd) Business Growth (26th), and Natural Environment (20th).
First Responders
Create a state-funded, interest-bearing pension program for Georgia's Firefighters, EMTs, Ambulance crews & Paramedics; require a minimum county service commitment.
Minimum Wage
Raise the state $2.13/$5.25 per hour minimum wage (the lowest in the U.S.), fight the negative effects of Georgia being a "right to work" state (the 12th poorest in the United States).
Church & State
Get ALL religion out of politics; it's government, not church. Require all religious organizations to publicly report political donations. Tax churches that participate in politics.
Legalize Marijuana
Reclassify it as a Schedule III substance, especially for medicinal & pain relief uses. Enact a 1% sales tax to fund medical facility improvements. Mandate product warnings on all product labels.
Ground Game
Host regular open town halls with constituents & community groups. Meet with county commissioners, city councils and municipal boards to solve long-standing & emerging problems.
