My Mission

We deserve to have an ethical, efficient, and constitutionally limited government.  As an elected official, I would help to make this vision of government a reality. Libertarians believe that we should not have to live in fear of an ever-expanding and ever more corrupt government. Sadly, despite some strengths, our current federal government is corrupt and treats us like subjects of a police state. The two legacy parties only see bureaucratic solutions to everything - the economy, education, retirement, and health care. This is unacceptable.

My Pledge

My pledge to the people of the State of Texas and the United States of America is to end the reign of self-serving and mega government politicians in Washington D.C. by being an ethical and innovative lawmaker. 

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    The Pearland Journal/Friendswood Journal
    The Smithville Times
    Grand Prairie Chamber of Commerce
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    For our Grandchildren
    Merchants Payments Coalition
    Parents Action for Children  Questionnaire
        Project Vote Smart National Political Awareness Test
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        OnTheIssues.org
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        Literacy Coalition of Central Texas
        Texas Alliance for Life Voters Guide
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        Organic Consumers Fund
        League of Women Voters of Texas, Voters Guide
        Faith United Against Tobacco, support of S. 666
    CAMR Letter
    Americans for the Arts Action Fund PAC   
 

Small Business Initiatives

•  Simply tax code to drive investments, not drive tax havens
•  Provide Enterprise funds for rural communities
•  Repeal Estate Tax or "Death Tax"

Election and Campaign Reform

•  All provisions of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) must be followed and enforced by the Texas Secretary of State
•  The problem with political campaigns is not that wealthy individuals and PACs have given too much money, it is that the rest of us have been politically disenfranchised and given no financial incentives to give to the candidates of our choice. I support up to a $2,000 tax credit for political contributions.
• End Federal Matching Funds

Health Care Initiatives

•  Pass pending legislation for Small Business Health Plans (SBHP)
•  Eliminate fraud and identity theft to significantly reduce costs and improve care
•  Aim towards making affordable individual, non-employment based health insurance available to all 300 million Americans.
•  Implement a standardized statewide definition of poverty to balance health care loads across county hospitals
•  Socialized medicine will never work in this country
•  Pass Senate bill 666, the Family Smoking Prevention Act

ACTION ITEM: Write to your two U.S. Senators and tell them that you expect Small Business Health Plans to be approved immediately, not stuck in committee forever as they are now. Also, let them know that you expect affordable non-employer based options to COBRA after separation from a job.

Education

•  We must keep Texas dollars home. By eliminating the federal personal income tax, individuals and families will have the money they need to make investment and savings decisions for education
•  Funding support for children with disabilities must be made permanent. President Bush and Congress are currently trying to cut help to those in our country who are most in need of our compassion and support.

ACTION ITEM: Write to Congress and the President and tell them that you support program for children with disabilities.

Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

•  Congress needs to declare war and state specific objectives or we should withdraw immediately.
•  The President should not leave it to the generals to decide what to do, we need leadership from the President and the Congress.

ACTION ITEM: Vote for Scott Jameson for U.S. Senate to break the deadlock in Congress to move forward on a plan for finishing up in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The National Debt

We need to start paying off the $10 trillion National Debt by running the annual federal budget at a surplus of $500 billion over the next twenty years.

I am calling for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to require a public review period for all bills in the U.S. Congress before they can be submitted for a final vote.

ACTION ITEM: Write your Texas State Representative and Texas Senator and tell that you support the Texas Legislature convening a Constitutional Convention to propose this amendment.

Income Taxes

We must eliminate the federal personal income tax. It is regressive, very difficult to comply with, compliance cost is 1% of our annual GDP, and allows for asset forfeiture. We can fund all the constitutional functions of the federal government and pay down the National Debt at a rate of $500 billion a year with corporate, excise, and a per capita franchise tax on States. We do not need a federal personal income tax to run the federal government.

I do not support the FAIR Tax initiative.

Retirement Financial Planning

According to the General Accounting Office, Medicaid and Medicare will be bankrupt in six years. Social Security will be intentionally bankrupted soon afterwards. The average wage earner in Texas makes $40,000 a year, and at current dollars, can expect to retire at age 67 and receive 1,044 a month under the current failed legacy systems. If the same wage earner invested their payroll taxes in a very conservative portfolio yielding only an average of 4.6%, they would retire with a monthly payment of $6,600 a month. Which plan would you rather have?

ACTION ITEM: Go to America is Listening and learn about the 7.65% Solution

Vote Smart - Vote Libertarian.

Consumer Protection

•  Reinstate interest rate limits on consumer debt
•  Allow for arbitration or mediation to settle consumer debts instead of bankruptcy courts
•  Eliminate identity theft and electronic financial fraud
•  Did you know that your U.S. Senator can access the "sub-files" of your consumer credit reports that track the fraudulent use of your identity?

ACTION ITEM: Write to one of your U.S. Senators and ask them to request and send to you your complete credit history file!

ACTION ITEM: Contact all the credit reporting companies and tell them to freeze access to your profile without verified permission from you on a case-by-case basis.

Public Prayer

We need to amend the U.S. Constitution to clarify that free speech includes public prayer.

ACTION ITEM: Pray whenever and wherever you wish.

The Trans Texas Corridor

I am opposed to this project.

ACTION ITEM: Write to Governor Perry and Senator Hutchinson and tell them you are opposed to the project.

Border and National Security

•  Opposed to a border wall, we need to enforce the 1986 Immigration Reform Act
•  Opposed to mass deportation
•  Opposed to amnesty
•  Must re-instate Habeas Corpus
•  Opposed to an arduous path the citizenship
•  Support standardizing on RIFD technology for low-cost asset and cargo management at our ports

Identity Theft and Financial Fraud

•  Support biometric Social Security Cards and highly secure drivers licenses to eliminate identity theft and fraud in our education, health care, financial systems, and employment opportunities. However, I would also introduce a bill to  limit the use of SSN and DL numbers only for their original purposes - SSN for identification of of an individual for government retirement benefits, and DL number for identification as a legal motor vehicle operator.

One company's compact biometric device.

Privacy Letter regarding the use of biometric devices.

Shay,

 Thank you for contacting my campaign for U.S. Senate. I understand your concerns about privacy. The problem I am addressing is the billions of dollars every year lost to identity thieves and fraud in our health care, education, and financial networks. Unfortunately, with the paper card based system we have now anyone can use your number, or just make one up. Bob Sullivan of MSNBC reported that some people are sharing their SSN with as many as 30 others. Unfortunately, about 80% of the fraudulent use of SSNs is by illegal immigrants. The technology I am proposing is very specific – the individual cards themselves do not hold any of your personal information – not your SSN, not your thumbprint, or name, etc. What happens is when you activate the card it generates a biocode that is valid for a very short period of time to allow you to put your stamp on a transaction to verify that it is you – for example, a web-based job application or credit application.  A new unique biocode is generated for each transaction you initiate, and your SSN is never stored or transmitted. If you lose the card, it is useless to anyone else, and since it does not contain your personal information, it cannot be hacked to any gain. This is state-of-the-art technology, way beyond credit cards or anything else.  Again, corporations or anyone else that you do business with involving your SSN would not be able to receive or store your SSN number, and it is never transmitted.

 Unfortunately, right now the Social Security Administration, the IRS, and the credit reporting companies all track the fraudulent use of everyone’s’ SSNs, but claim that they are legally forbidden to contact consumers even when it is obvious that you are being ripped off. All of this fraudulent activity is stored in “sub-files” on your credit history, which is not part of the report that is available to consumers, even on their own records. Interestingly, U.S. Senators have the authority to pull your complete file, including the fraud-tracking “sub-files.” So if you are interested in seeing your complete credit report, send your request for information to a U.S. Senator. If I am elected to the U.S. Senate, I would be happy to process all requests of this nature to my office, until such time as the laws are changed to protect consumers directly.

 Cordially,

Scott Jameson