I support single-payer health insurance.

In the absence of a Federal law, this civil right has been turned into a zoning issue. “You can get an abortion in this state but not that one.” This needs to be changed at the Federal level. People should be in charge of their own bodies.

Not only do women deserve a right to high quality reproductive health services, but when I’m elected, I’ll work hard to attract more health care practitioners and I’ll expand the pool of exceptional medical professionals to provide the women of NV-02 the comprehensive health care they deserve.

I take our freedoms seriously, including a woman’s right to choose. That right should be enshrined in state and federal constitutional protections.

I support issuance of a digital ID that can be on mobile phones and that is considered valid for state purposes (like hunting passes, benefits payouts, drivers licenses, voting, and so on). I support a voter ID if you make it easy for folks to get hold of one. ID systems must be inclusive, electronic, and easy. Everyone should have this as a birthright. Medical records will transfer easily from provider to provider; you’ll have proof that you voted only once; you’ll be able to open a bank account, run a background check; you can show up at any local organization or event and pay with your phone – just like ApplePay and GooglePay, but applied to your civic life. Nevada is behind other states. Let’s change that.

We should adjust our tax code when it falls most heavily on those least able to pay for the basics like food, gas, health, and education.

Education is funded from property taxes. Nevada has the most antiquated property taxes in the country. It's based on a depreciating value, not market value. So Nevada has the worst spending per student in the country. And the worst outcomes. That's unacceptable.

We need immigration reform, not a masked and unaccountable secret police force, funded to the tune of $80 billion while terrorizing American citizens and communities. That means the right levels of legal immigration and guest workers in key sectors, along with strict controls on illegal entry and on employers who exploit the situation.

We need to stand up to bullies in the world from a position of strength rather than coddling dictators and encouraging the kind of appeasement that led to WWII. This means supporting funding for Ukraine. I don’t want penny-wise-pound-foolish isolationism which will mean we'll end up having to use our own troops to clean up messes that eventually threaten our own security and well-being. Let's learn from, rather than hide from, history.

I want us to be strong in fair trade so we have markets to sell to, and low prices, rather than vanity trade wars and costly tariffs. We can do this with top wages for our current work force —in the high-tech realms but also for jobs in all basic trades, services, and vocations.

A lot of folks are talking out there about Medicare for all, and I support that. That's a stepping stone. 

But what does single payer universal health care mean? And why is it so important for the United States to get out of the slow lane and get to the fast lane for something other countries have already figured out? Single payer means that doctors, nurses, and technicians are paid with a salary. They don't get paid by reimbursements from insurance claims. There's no insurance, there's just capacity. 

Look at public schools. No payments are involved in public education; there's just teachers and administrators and buildings. And there shouldn't be payments involved in health care. Now, I'm a private sector guy, but there are some things like public transportation, roads, public education – and I believe health care – that are just much more effectively provided when you look at them as a public good. You don't involve a claims process and a payments process, because the US is already spending 50% more per person than any other developed country in the world. 

Now you could say, well, we must be getting something for all that extra spend. What we're getting are terrible outcomes. You're three times more likely to die if you're a woman giving birth in this country than the average of all those other industrialized countries, and your life expectancy is four years shorter. We're paying more and getting less. It doesn't work. It shouldn't be a political issue. It’s not Republican versus Democrat, or conservative versus liberal. It should just be ‘what works’. And now more than ever, from both affordability and access points of view, we need to face the fact that the US has not figured this one out. We can look to the other countries that are ahead of us, be humble, learn the lesson, and put that in place to get the US back to where we should be. We're currently spending 18% of our GDP on health care. Put that in perspective: defense is 3.4%!  It's horrendously wasteful. We can't compete as a country and can't be humane or ethical if we continue just to burn money and not face this challenge. 

And the way to do that is by creating a single payer system.

A seat at the table means technology works for our citizens, not the other way around. I support strong federal legislation. I will fight for that in Congress. AI must work for people, not the other way around. I fought all my life in Silicon Valley – bottom up, for the little guy. I've been to the Supreme Court against those big companies.

At the Federal level, I believe AI should not be used to create a surveillance state. That's a real risk. That’s 1984 and George Orwell. We don't want to be like China. We want to compete with China. 

AI should not be used in an autonomous way in weapons systems where you have weapons like RoboCop, where the weapons are set off and there's no human oversight. 

For anything that has AI behind it, you have to have accountability. It has to tag back to a person and ultimate beneficial owner. There cannot be a concept of AI that is unaccountable.

On top of all that, AI uses huge resources. We have a boom in data centers in Nevada. I don't understand why we would be subsidizing that when we already have a shortage of power and water. They should be paying us if we want them at all. By that I mean: they should be putting energy into the grid and water. We cannot have a system where Nevada's role in AI is to have the remaining power grid and water sucked up by these centers,  driving up energy prices and reducing water available for farmers. 

AI should be working for people, not people working for AI. Having said that, we cannot pretend that we're not in a competitive market competing with countries like China. We cannot try to control AI on a state-by-state basis. The jobs and the opportunities will just be sucked elsewhere, to other states, to other countries. So we’ve got to get out ahead of this problem, and I will fight hard in Congress to make sure we do that.

We've picked a war with a country whose mineral, gas and oil reserves are enormous. Their oil reserves are the third largest in the world. The US is number nine. Their natural gas is number two in the world. The US is number four. Financially, because of the supply disruption, we have skyrocketed the value of those resources for Iran. They're currently worth $27 trillion. That's about half the U.S. stock market. It's more than the top five market cap companies in our country. It's almost three quarters of our national debt. It's a gift to Khameini, the ruling regime, and to Putin.

We have created a situation in which the other side knows that they're winning, regardless of what the talking heads in Washington say. They have years of reserves. We can destroy all their production capacity. They're still selling that oil, that gas, those minerals to China. And China is perfectly capable of selling them all the weapons they need to keep fighting with us. 

We can declare victory and walk away, but it takes two to end a war. 

The way we fought this war is not the way we fought with Japan and Germany. This is not an honorable victory and it's not an honorable defeat for one party or the other. This is the very definition of, of the forever war. The lessons that we didn't learn in Afghanistan and Iraq, except now we've picked a country that's more than the size of those two combined. 96 million people. 20 million more than Nazi Germany that we invaded with 12 million people and allies. 

This situation is a clown show. We never would have won World War II with this. We're strengthening our adversaries. The math does not make sense. We have got to choose a different course.

I'm a payments geek. I was there at the beginning of Square and Coinbase, and I worked at the Fed in the payments group. Payments are my thing. 

But you know what? There are a lot of industries where payments don't make sense. Remember in the old days when you used to get your phone bill, and it kept track of every single call, and you got a charge for each one: local, long distance, or overseas. But all the companies that provide those services gave up on all that. It costs more to keep track of the billing than just to provide all-you-can-eat plans. 

There are other industries this applies to. It applies to healthcare, and I’ve got a separate heading on that subject. 

But it’s also true for things like public transportation. Remember when we used to have tolls everywhere? The tolls really were ineffective. There are other ways to gather revenue to build roads without having toll booths all over the place. 

How about preschool? You really want to nickel and dime people to have their kids taken care of? I don't think so. Just have a system that has enough capacity so everybody has a place to go to preschool just like they do for public education. We just need to go down the list and figure out which of these things make more sense to provide on a bulk block basis rather than bean-counting and trying to discourage use. 

These key public services are critical to our competitiveness and to our being a humane society. We've gotten on the wrong track and we need to reevaluate what industries merit having payments be part of them. 

And I, as a payments guy, suggest that many of these industries I just discussed have no role for payments at all. So let's get the right industries tracked to not have payments and not be financialized.