Jay J Bowman

His campaign website's Zero-One-Hundred tax plan would replace the current individual, corporate and capital gains taxes with a two-tier system in which the first $100,000 of income is exempt and income above that is taxed at a flat base rate of 20%, which would drop to 15% if the budget stays balanced for three consecutive years; it also eliminates all individual itemized deductions.^8,9

1. Replace the current income tax with a single flat rate or a national sales tax
2. Cut rates further, including the top rate
3. Keep current rates
4. Raise rates on high incomes only (for example, above $400,000)

His campaign website's tax plan applies a flat 20% rate to business profits above the first $100,000, and says multinational corporations that keep half or more of their supply chains overseas would pay 25% instead.¹⁰

His campaign website's tax plan eliminates all individual itemized deductions, including the home mortgage interest deduction, and says the $100,000 exemption replaces them.^8,9

1. Expand these breaks and make more of them refundable, so families who owe little income tax also benefit
2. Add or expand breaks for costs such as education savings, adoption and selling a home
3. Keep the current breaks
4. Cut back these breaks and use the money for lower tax rates or deficit reduction

His campaign website's tax white paper describes ending special-interest carve-outs and corporate deductions while adding a 150% deduction for domestic research and development and a 100% upfront write-off for hard assets.⁸

His campaign website says its tax plan includes an immediate across-the-board 6.5% spending cut, a freeze on total federal spending at the first-year level and a balanced budget by the fourth year.^8,11

1. Increase overall federal spending
2. Hold overall spending near current levels
3. Cut overall federal spending
4. Cut spending enough to balance the budget within 10 years

His campaign website says its spending cuts would not touch Social Security checks or Medicare coverage, and that existing payroll tax structures would stay intact.¹²

His campaign website says Congress needs to reverse the course on tariffs and other economically restrictive measures to protect farmers, and its tax white paper describes replacing product-specific tariffs with a 10% American Market Access Fee on imported non-essential manufactured finished goods, with food and medicine exempt.^8,13,14

His campaign website says it supports raising the federal minimum wage to a level that reflects the cost of living in different regions and indexing it to inflation.¹³

His campaign website says it supports policies that protect and strengthen workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively.¹³

1. Make it easier to form a union (for example, the PRO Act)
2. Keep current rules
3. Add requirements such as a secret-ballot election before every union is recognized

His campaign website says Congress should pass the 2026 Farm Bill to lock in long-term support for Kentucky farms.^13,14

His campaign website lists expanding rural broadband to support smarter farming among its agriculture priorities.^13,14

His campaign website says it proposes a Cabinet-level AI and Innovation position, confirmed by the Senate and accountable to Congress, to make sure AI augments workers rather than replacing them, establish congressional oversight of federal AI use and promote fair access for small businesses and communities.¹³

His campaign website says it supports a universal single-payer health care system, which it describes as run through a federal agency that administers the system, processes claims and pays providers, and which could be private, government or a hybrid; it says the system would be phased in gradually.¹³

1. One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
2. Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
3. Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
4. Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals

His campaign website says the U.S. should evaluate current defense spending, prioritize essential programs, modernize equipment, reduce waste and work with allies to keep a strong national defense while minimizing unnecessary costs.¹³

His campaign website says it supports term limits for Congress, saying they would stop career politicians from putting re-election ahead of problem-solving and encourage public service as a duty rather than a career.¹³

His campaign website lists making it harder for super PACs to coordinate with candidates and parties, requiring super PACs to disclose their donors, considering limits on donations to super PACs and encouraging public financing of campaigns.¹³

His campaign website says it supports two years of tuition-free community college for every American.¹⁵

1. No free tuition program
2. Free tuition at community colleges
3. Free tuition at public colleges and universities

His campaign website says federal education policies such as No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top should be revised to give states and local school districts more autonomy, and that local districts should rely less on federal grants.¹³

His campaign website says it supports a moratorium on new data center builds, requiring data centers to pay for the roads, water and power lines they use, and a national plan in which Congress sets clear rules.¹³

1. Encourage new data centers with tax breaks and faster approvals
2. Require data centers to pay the full cost of the power plants and lines they need
3. Pause or limit new data centers

His campaign website says it supports a fair and accessible process for undocumented immigrants who meet certain criteria to gain legal status and, eventually, citizenship.¹³

1. No new legal status, including for people brought here as children
2. Legal status only for people brought here as children, such as DACA recipients
3. Legal status, but not citizenship, for most who pass background checks and pay a fine
4. A path to citizenship for most who meet requirements such as background checks

His campaign website says it supports expanding visa programs for skilled workers, students and family members of U.S. citizens so that more people can enter the country legally.¹³

1. Admit more immigrants, such as by adding work visas or clearing family backlogs
2. Keep green cards and work visas near recent levels
3. Admit fewer immigrants than in recent years
4. Pause most new legal immigration for a time

His campaign website says border security measures should be strengthened while ensuring that human rights are protected and that asylum seekers are given due process.¹³

His campaign website says everyone deserves control over their body and medical decisions, and that too many women still face obstacles to basic care, from birth control to family planning.¹⁶