Policy Positions

Regressive taxes, such as sales taxes, are a harder hit on working families. With rising inflation in just about *gestures broadly* everything, removing the grocery sales tax can lessen some of that burden. It’s not an end-all-be-all to fix the rising costs of living, but it’s something we can do.

For those worried about how to pay for it? We can close corporate tax loopholes! Rep. Aftyn Behn has proposed this bill in the TN General Assembly, but the cult doesn’t want it to pass because their corporate sponsors might have to pay a few more pennies in taxes! OH NO!

It’s happening nationwide, and of course it’s happening here.

Human-shaped Nazi rectal polyp (rectal polyps, I apologize!) Stephen Miller has deputized a gang of I(n)C(el)E(dgelords) to terrorize anyone they believe is “in the country illegally.” And how do they determine that? Well, thanks to Supreme Court “Justice” Kavanaugh, this is allowed:

It might shock you to learn that more people overstay on visas (or come on visas that aren’t being used for their intended purpose) than cross borders. Also, Obama and Biden deported more undocumented immigrants without making a spectacle, terrible memes, or outright murdering people.

The people who are really encouraging this are business owners who want cheap, paid-under-the-table labor. When they say, “Americans don’t want to work,” they mean Americans don’t want to work for your terrible wages. Plus, if one of these undocumented immigrants dares to speak up? They’ll just call up the I(n)C(el)E(dgelords) to throw them in some cage in some warehouse somewhere without due process. We must heavily the punish business owners who take advantage of this system.

The cult pushes “school choice” not to improve educational standards and test scores (in fact, they push legislation to exempt private schools from the same testing requirements as public schools), but to divert funds from public schools towards religious private schools that push lying PragerU AI slop.

What’s worse than an uneducated populace? A populace that is educated with lies and propaganda! It makes it easier to vomit out word salads that cause people to vote against their own interests!

Instead of taking funds from our public school systems to “educate” rich kids in Belle Meade and Brentwood with propaganda, we must work with county and city school systems to properly fund children’s education and raise teacher pay to be more competitive with other states.

While Tennessee did establish a framework for hemp regulation and taxing previously, they decided to make a change in 2025, moving regulatory authority from the Department of Agriculture to the Alcoholic Beverage Commission. While supposedly working with the hemp industry in our state to establish healthy regulations for everybody, they had the most punchable face in the TN General Assembly slip in a THCa ban, which the Tennessee Grower’s Coalition estimates accounts for ~75% of hemp sales in the state:

Even if the federal hemp ban taking effect later in 2026 (passed as part of the “clean” continuing resolution to end the late 2025 federal government shutdown) is reversed, we have cratered a major source of revenue for the state (to the tune of hundreds of millions) because of four separate, but equally important, groups. *DUN DUN*

• Dum-dums who believe Reefer Madness is a documentary, not a religious propaganda film.
• Big alcohol, who is losing revenue from younger generations who like their liver and wish to keep it.
• Big pharma, who would rather you soothe your pain with large amounts of opiates.
• Private prisons, who need more people arrested for “(insert something normal here) while black/brown” so they can keep abusing that loophole in the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

Essentially, cannabis has been legalized since 2018. “Hemp” and “marijuana” are the exact same plant – cannabis sativa. The difference is a legal one, not a scientific one. The only real difference is when the plant is cultivated and how it is cured, to avoid going over a 0.3% amount of Delta-9 THC.

We haven’t seen increases in crime rates. We haven’t seen children smoking up blunts. We haven’t seen hemp cause people to try harder drugs (despite that D.A.R.E. B.S. they tried to pass off in classrooms!)

I am a cannabis user. It has helped me sleep better than any pain or sleeping pill. I have no inclination to try harder drugs or commit crimes. Despite what those above groups want you to believe, I am a productive taxpaying member of society.

TL;DR: I support legalization and regulation of cannabis.

While you’ve read my main positions above, you may want my opinion on other things. I’ll share them below. If you want to know something I haven’t addressed here, contact me and ask! I’ll also post it here:

• As an EV driver, the “EV/hybrid registration fee in lieu of gas tax” passed by the cult is unequally punitive against EV/hybrid owners. We should replace these two taxes with an annual registration fee based on vehicle weight. Vehicle weight is what damages roads (especially big trucks), not what powers the vehicle.
• I am pro-choice, and I also know it’s not my choice to make. Banning abortion, even in cases of rape or incest, inserts government between woman and doctor. And I can tell you that I’m not qualified to make those decisions!
• I support single-payer healthcare. Healthcare should not be tied to your job.
• I support LGBTQIA+ folks living their lives without harassment and hate. In fact, I support that for everybody. As long as you’re not hurting yourself or others (and when I say hurt, I mean actual hurt, not some fragile snowflake’s feelings hurt), it doesn’t bother me how you choose to live your life. That’s freedom!
• While it does not directly affect my district, I support protecting the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway from attempts at closure. It is a historical venue that was the birthplace of many NASCAR stars (including, but not limited to, Darrell Waltrip, Sterling Marlin, and the late Bobby Hamilton), as well as hosting the top levels of NASCAR racing for years to a nationwide television audience, thus bringing attention (and dollars) to the state. People moved next door to an already-established racetrack just to complain about the noise, despite the track owners working to mitigate that noise for nearby residents; certain people are trying to take advantage of that for his own personal gain.