Tom Schmitz

Defense / Veterans

Policing the world is not the United States’ responsibility. We need to stop getting involved in other nation's messy and complicated internal affairs. Wars and disputes between other nations, or within a nation, are none of our business, and they are never worth the sacrifice of our brave American soldier’s lives. Learn more

We must acknowledge the dangerous blowback caused by our interventionism. We create animosity toward our country when we intervene in other nations’ affairs.  Further, our intervention in other countries’ wars and internal disputes only causes more harm and suffering for the individuals in those countries. Learn more

Drug Policy

We need to end the war on drugs, because people voluntarily taking a substance into their body is their right, and should be their choice.  Voluntary drug use in and of itself is a victimless crime. Most drug overdose deaths are from street drugs where the user didn't know exactly what they were ingesting. Freedom would allow for drug users to know exactly how much of a drug they were taking, and would ensure the substances were not contaminated. . Learn more

Education

Students and families should have freedom of choice in selecting their school which includes the right to eschew schools that are not meeting student needs.  Free market incentives, innovations, and competition, particularly in our new digital age, would transform our education system and make the United States the global leader in education. Learn more

We need to transition to a privatized education system and allow our students to be lifted up by competing teachers and schools.  School leadership needs to be able to easily replace personnel who are failing students.  Just as leadership in the private sector can easily replace an employee who is failing their customers and co-workers, our schools should be no different.  On the other hand, education providers who are exceeding expectations and helping students succeed should be, and certainly would be promoted and rewarded in a free market. Learn more

Environment / Energy

We need a robust EPA that works, an EPA that is one main sector of a limited, Constitutional federal government, where government can focus dramatically increased effort and attention on protecting our environment. As a practical example, let's take the government's focus and involvement in healthcare, a sector the government has no right to be involved in, and transfer that effort to environmental protections. Learn more

Guns

We must resist so called "red flag" laws, which are a dangerous slippery slope toward government obtaining the power to disarm American Citizens at will and without any semblance of due process. Learn more

Healthcare

In the face of COVID-19, separation of healthcare and state is more important now than ever before. We need to get rid of government restrictions preventing those who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 from taking medications which might be beneficial in treating that disease. We need to let the free market work to manufacture and deliver COVID-19 tests. A free market, voluntary healthcare system is the answer, now, more than ever. Learn more

The answer to pre-existing conditions is not our current path, which is an endless downward spiral of government coercion and impulsive, short sighted edicts. These government actions will not fundamentally provide an adequate and sustainable solution for uninsured patients with pre-existing conditions, and will inevitably lead to total government control of the health insurance system and healthcare sector as a whole, which will prove disastrous. Learn more

Social Services

Social Security is unsustainable and forces individuals to be dependent upon the state.  We need to allow people the choice to opt out of Social Security.  We need to gradually transition toward privatization of retirement. Learn more

Wages / Job Benefits

The minimum wage destroys jobs and is a violation of employer's and employee's rights to freely contract with one another.  The minimum wage is particularly harmful for our poorest communities and those who need entry-level jobs. Learn more