Mahesh (Max) Ganorkar

His campaign website says parents should be able to choose their children's schools, and proposes funding students directly through school vouchers claimed on parents' tax returns, encouraging private and vocational schools, and judging schools by standardized test results.⁵

His campaign website proposes health care vouchers delivered through the tax-filing process for people to buy health insurance, with catastrophic coverage required as a minimum, and says insurance should be purchasable from anywhere in the country.⁵

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 corporations should be prevented from purchasing single-family homes to hold as rental properties, which it says artificially raises prices.⁵

His campaign website proposes ending income taxes for people over 63 and eliminating capital gains taxes when someone sells their main residence.⁵

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 proposes that small businesses stop paying income tax on what they earn from exports.⁵

His campaign website calls for a smaller, limited government. It proposes replacing baseline budgeting with need-based budgeting that justifies each dollar, with each agency submitting its budget to Congress six or more months before the fiscal year ends, to reduce reliance on continuing resolutions.⁵

His campaign website says tariffs work like taxes on American importers and consumers and raise prices at home, and that diplomacy and negotiation should be the first tools in trade disputes, with economic penalties reserved for cases where the benefits clearly exceed the costs.⁵

His campaign website says American tax dollars should be spent at home to benefit American citizens, and that too much foreign aid does not reach the people it is meant to help.⁵

His campaign website says farming, construction and hospitality businesses need access to seasonal workers, and proposes a labor exchange system in which workers are vetted through U.S. embassies and return home when the work is finished.⁵

His campaign website calls for constitutional carry across the country, saying law-abiding citizens must be able to protect themselves without unnecessary restrictions.⁵

1. No permit needed for adults who can legally own a gun
2. Require a permit, with a background check and training
3. Require a permit and bar carrying in more places, such as parks, public transit and bars

His campaign website proposes limiting members of Congress to six terms in the House and two terms in the Senate.⁵

1. Shorter limits, such as three House terms (six years) and two Senate terms (12 years)
2. Longer limits, such as 12 to 18 years in each chamber
3. No term limits

His campaign website says members of Congress should not trade stocks or profit from inside access.⁵

1. Ban members and their spouses and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks
2. Ban members themselves from trading individual stocks
3. No ban; keep the reporting rules, with stronger penalties for late reports

His campaign website lists the right to life and preventing abortion as a priority. It says his faith discourages abortion and that he personally does not support it, but that in cases such as rape, incest or a risk to the mother's life, he believes the decision should stay within the family, guided by medical professionals.⁵

His campaign website's law-and-order section lists sanctuary cities alongside unsafe no-go zones as places where people do not want to live or invest.⁵