John James

His campaign website says he would eliminate the state income tax, starting with a one-quarter cut paid for by cutting what it says is at least $3 billion in waste, corporate welfare and fraud, and then phasing the tax out entirely.⁸

1. Add or raise taxes on the highest incomes (for example, a tax on income over $1 million)
2. Keep current rates
3. Cut rates or move to a single flat rate
4. Phase out the state income tax

His campaign website says he would repeal PA 235, which it calls a costly energy mandate, and pursue an all-of-the-above energy strategy in which nuclear, natural gas, renewables and other sources compete on cost and reliability.⁸

1. Raise targets or move up deadlines, such as 100% clean power by 2040
2. Keep current targets
3. Delay, loosen or repeal the targets

His campaign website says he would require local approval and transparency for data centers, protect ratepayers and Michigan's air, land and water, and favor brownfields over productive farmland.⁸

His campaign website says the state should respect voters' 2018 approval of legal, regulated marijuana, and that he would repeal or sharply reduce the 24% wholesale marijuana tax and crack down on unlicensed sellers.⁹

1. Keep recreational use against the law
2. Reduce penalties for having small amounts, without legal sales
3. Let each state decide, with no federal penalties where a state allows it
4. Make it legal for adults to buy and use

His campaign website says he would fully fund law enforcement.⁹

His campaign website says athletes born male should compete only with and against other athletes born male, with limited exceptions such as some co-ed and prepubescent recreational leagues.¹⁰

1. Require teams based on sex at birth
2. Let each state decide
3. Let schools or sports organizations set rules case by case
4. Teams based on gender identity

His campaign website says parents should see curricula in advance and have opt-in rights for instruction on controversial subjects, and that he supports legislation to reverse the state board of education's standards on gender identity and sexual orientation.¹⁰

1. State limits on these topics in some or all grades, with notice to parents
2. No state limits on topics, but require notice to parents and let them opt their children out
3. Leave decisions to local school boards
4. No state limits on teaching these topics
5. Require schools to include these topics, such as ethnic studies or LGBTQ history

His campaign website says he would opt Michigan into the new federal scholarship tax credit so parents can use scholarships at the school of their choice, and expand charter school options.¹⁰

His campaign website says he would work with the Legislature on a Michigan App Store Accountability Act to keep children from reaching age-restricted material through app stores and give parents more control.¹⁰

His campaign website says he would require legislative approval to extend emergency orders beyond 14 days.¹¹

1. Limit emergency powers and bar governments and employers from requiring workers to get vaccinated
2. Allow emergency measures, but end them after a set time unless lawmakers vote to extend them
3. Keep officials' power to declare emergencies and require vaccines for some workers, such as in health care

His campaign website says he voted in Congress to ban foreign governments such as China from buying American farmland.¹²