By Christopher Hansen
I was sent the following questions and I have responded to them even as though I was running for office.
1. Nevada state government is expected to face a $3 billion shortfall in the coming two-year budget cycle. How should the Nevada Legislature balance the budget – reduction in services, tax increases or a combination of the two? Be as specific as possible.
When a family cannot increase its income then it must have a “reduction of services.” Currently most Nevada families cannot increase their incomes because of the Twin Party Republican/Democrat system caused financial disaster. Nevada needs to cut services to the bone, just like REAL PEOPLE have to do.
2. Nevada frequently is at or near the bottom of national rankings in a wide range of areas, including education. What steps, if any, should be taken by the Legislature to improve our public schools, including higher education?
The 10th plank of the Communist Manifesto is free education by the government. As with all Marxist Inspired beliefs the free public school system is a failure and needs to be abolished. God is not allowed in the government schools and since this occurred our so-called education system has become worse and worse until it is not even worth saving. We need to start a new system that allows for and even demands parental choices. A voucher system for EVERY child would be a good start. When every teacher has to make a case to parents that they are the best teacher for their child. Teachers would have to offer evidence that they can teach that child, your child, the way that you believe is the very best way to teach your child. It gives parents control and not the legislature or the teacher’s union. I want parents to have choice in education. My opponents do not want parents to have the right to make educational choices for their own children. I, however, support liberty.
3. Is Nevada providing too little, enough or too much in the way of social services? Explain.
Nevada is bankrupt or close to it. Therefore they are obviously providing too many social services because they cannot afford to supply them. If a Nevada family is broke they are forced to change the amount of help they can give to their friends and churches etc. Government should be forced to make the same choices as Nevada families. The government is not superior to We the People. The law of economic should apply equally.
4. Is Nevada’s tax structure equitable? Are all businesses paying their fair share of taxes? Does the state’s tax structure provide sufficient revenue to pay for necessary services? If you believe changes are necessary, please outline them.
A 2% transaction tax an all banking transactions in Nevada could eliminate the need for any other form of tax. The banks would collect the tax and pay the tax. This would reduce the paperwork for EVERY Nevada business except banks and make Nevada a business center opportunity. Businesses would flock to Nevada. Our current system encourages business to leave not or not come here.
Nevada’s tax structure is a nightmare on Nevada families. Property taxes do not allow a man or woman to ever own property. If a person cannot own property they are a slave. We have the right to seek to own property but the current tax system does not allow for Nevadans to own property.
People are created by a Creator and not the government. Corporations are government creations. The government has the right to tax corporations clear out of existence, according to the great Senator Daniel Webster. Taxes, if needed over and above a 2% banking transaction fee should be placed upon corporations NOT WE THE PEOPLE. The larger the corporation the more tax it should have. IF NECESSARY but only if necessary for non-socialist government responsibilities. This would also help small ma and pa businesses to thrive in Nevada so that elder folk don’t have to end up as greeters at Wal-Mart.
5. What can the Legislature do to boost the economy?
Reduce taxes and interference with business, especially non-incorporated business. Most licenses should no longer even be required. We need to encourage innovative businesses that start in the family garage. A banking 2% transaction fee would do this. It would also reduce the cost of local and State government by reducing the number of government employees as they would no longer be needed to eat out the substance of We the People with needless rules and regulations enforcement.
6. Should the state take more of a leadership role in diversifying the economy? If so, how?
No. It should abolish all taxes currently being used to crush We the People and replace them with the 2% banking transaction fee. It should get rid of most business license unless that business is inherently immediately dangerous. Grocery store and clothing shops and plumbers and not inherently immediately dangerous. Corporations should have business licenses since they are created by the government and have no unalienable rights. We the People should not have business licenses forced upon us. This would encourage everything from lemonade stands to construction jobs to inexpensive doctors and lawyers and plumbers and cloths shops. We should let the buyer beware and stop being a nanny state.
We do not, for example license churches or private libraries and they can do as much harm as any plumber or grocery store. Let us extend the same liberty we give churches and private libraries to every Nevada Citizen.
Organizations should not have more liberty than We the People.
7. Has the state done enough to bring renewable energy projects to Nevada? If not, what efforts should be tried?
We should remove the government impediments to such projects. We should kick the Federal government off of Nevada lands so that the land can be used without Federal Government interference to supply the energy needs of Nevada. The BLM and Forrest Service need to get out of Nevada and let Nevada be a WHOLE State and not one that is 90%+ controlled by the Federal Government. After all the Federal Government is a failure at land management. Just look what they have done in Iraq and Afghanistan. Local governments should make the decisions about Nevada land not some Eastern Ivory Tower Federal Government Bureaucrat. Nevadans are intelligent enough to manage their own lands. We don’t need a Nanny Federal Government watching over us.
8. Should local governments have more autonomy from the Legislature?
Yes. The smaller the government the better. If a local government taxes too much then the citizens can move to another town or county where the taxes are low. Free enterprise works. Every effort should be made to make Counties compete for Citizens. The same goes for schools. Make them compete and we will have the greatest education system in the world and people will flock to Nevada.
9. What are your thoughts about home rule, including giving local governments the ability to raise taxes?
I support home rule on some issues but we first of all we need to have home rule for Nevada. This means rejecting EVERY cent that the Federal government offers to Nevada. Nevada is cursed with all of the mandates by the Federal government from the Real ID to voter registration requirements BECAUSE Nevada takes Federal money. Fix the Home Rule problem with the State before moving on to the Counties.
10. Should there be an overhaul of how state and local governments provide compensation to public employees, including pensions and health care benefits? If yes, explain how.
Yes. Government employees should be paid on a work completed basis. Teachers that fail to teach should not be paid. Cops that violate citizen’s rights should no be paid. File Clerks should be paid by the page not the hour. The same goes for every government job. Bonuses for innovative ideas that reduce the cost of government should be paid to government employees or Citizens that come up with government reduction ideas. But most government jobs need to be ended. If we abolish most regulations that are controlled by the government we would need less government employee.
The Legislative and Executive branch salaries should be directly tied to the State Economy. If the State economy is in trouble then those elected officials should feel the pain their decisions caused the Citizens. If the state is expanding then they should be compensated for doing a great job.
Free enterprise works.
Even a Socialist will think twice about a new government program that will harm the State’s economy and thereby direct affect that Socialists government pay check.
There should be no government pensions. In the private sector individuals must plan for their own retirement. Are government employees too stupid to do what the rest of us must do. If so they need to be fired as they are a burden on Nevada Citizens. We need to make sure the government employees have all of the benefits and/or disadvantages of the private sector, like no government pensions.
11. Are there areas of government that should be privatized? If so, which?
Education would be the first. But most government is simply unnecessary. Before we start privatizing we need to start cutting back on government. Privative tyranny is still just tyranny now run by a for profit Corporation.
Welfare programs should be turned back over to the churches and similar organizations. Let Christians care for Christians, Buddhists for Buddhists and Atheist care for Atheist. Let their belief system decide what will happen to them if they have difficulties. This is a perfect example of proper privatization. Even religion and anti-religion work best under a free enterprise system where people weigh the benefits of membership.
The American system works best where people are responsible for the choices and government is not their to bailout poor financial decisions like they have with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and AIG and the Banksters. This would be done if taxes were reduced. Welfare by the government is charity at the point of a gun and nothing more then theft by the biggest organized crime syndicate in any organized State, the government, whereas charity done voluntarily benefits BOTH the giver and those in need. Love is the greatest power on earth and their is no love in a government run welfare system.
12. Do you think there’s enough transparency in government? Should the public have more access to meetings, documents, etc.?
There is never enough transparency in government. The first thing that should be done is cameras, without video, should be installed in every government office and placed on the internet so that citizens can see what their public servants are doing at all times. This should include every government school classroom.
Every police car should have a video camera and every officer a video/audio camera so that We the People need not rely upon the testimony of officers about what occurred. We should let the cameras tell the story.
If the government and its employees have nothing to hide then this should not be a problem.
13. Turning to health care, should state law be amended to require that individual hospitals report to the state, for public disclosure, the incidence of patients at each hospital being infected or injured while hospitalized? Explain.
We need to get the government out of the health care business. The high cost of health care is a direct result of government involvement. Just 70 years ago it cost $20 to have a baby in a hospital. Now it costs tens of thousands. The major difference is that 70 years ago the government was not involved so heavily in medicine. 90%+ of the time government involvement increases cost of ANY business and reduces the ability to give good service. Get rid of the government leaches and services will improve and costs will be reduced. The first solution is ALWAYS to reduce the size of the government as it never helps a company give better service or reduced costs.
14. Should the state of Nevada and the state’s congressional delegation continue its opposition to nuclear waste being sent here? Should the state negotiate for benefits in return for allowing nuclear waste to be sent to Nevada?
Yes we should continue to fight the poisoning of our State by the Feds.
We should never seek any money from the Feds because it always comes with strings attached that reduce the individual liberties of the Citizens of Nevada.
15. What other critical issues are facing the state that should be addressed? How would you suggest dealing with them?
ObamaCare is the first immediate Issue that needs to be addressed and opposed. Independent American Candidate for Attorney General, Joel Hansen, is preparing a lawsuit against ObamaCare right now. I support that effort. We MUST TOTALLY restructure the Nevada tax system replacing it with the 2% bank transaction fee while abolishing nearly every other tax and license fee. Automobiles do not need to be registered. Businesses should not need to be licensed. Property taxes destroy liberty by destroying property rights. At worst there should be a sales tax upon the land that can be paid in installments so that eventually the person would OWN the property. This would also encourage a stabilization of a community by encouraging long term property ownership. This would also help in the homeowners crisis as Property taxes would be abolished so more Nevadans could keep their homes because the costs would be significantly reduced.