Matt Day

His campaign website’s American Elder Bill, a proposed bill on Social Security and Medicare, would eliminate the annual wage cap on Social Security payroll tax contributions, with half of the new revenue going to the Social Security trust fund and half toward benefit increases for low-income seniors.⁹

1. Keep the current cap
2. Also tax earnings above a higher level, such as $250,000 or $400,000
3. Apply the tax to all earnings

His campaign website’s American Elder Bill would direct half of the revenue from removing the payroll tax cap toward benefit increases for low-income seniors.⁹

His campaign website’s American Elder Bill would extend Medicare Parts B and D to cover routine dental services, vision care including annual exams and corrective lenses, and hearing assessments and hearing aids.⁹

1. Keep current coverage, under which some private Medicare Advantage plans offer these benefits
2. Add some of these benefits, such as hearing aids, to traditional Medicare
3. Add dental, vision and hearing coverage to traditional Medicare

His campaign website’s American Elder Bill would have states and counties exempt up to $500,000 of assessed value on a senior’s primary residence, with the federal government reimbursing participating states, and an earlier campaign-promises page still on his website lists eliminating property taxes for senior citizens.^9,10

His campaign website’s American Elder Bill would bar sales taxes on prescription medications for people 65 and older and exempt groceries from sales tax for seniors through a federally issued relief card.⁹

His campaign website says balancing the budget requires cutting the size of the government, and it pledges that he will not seek re-election unless he sponsors a bill in his first term that balances the federal budget and adds multiple sources of revenue.^11,12

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 pledges that he will not raise marginal income tax rates for individuals or businesses and will not reduce or eliminate tax deductions.¹²

His campaign website says its American Elder Bill would cover only senior citizens who are U.S. citizens, not permanent residents, and lists bringing in more immigrants who pay taxes but do not receive elder care benefits among ways to pay for Social Security and Medicare.⁹

His campaign website lists more immigrants coming in to pay taxes, and new H-2A visas, among the ways it proposes to raise revenue for Social Security, Medicare and the federal budget.^9,13

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’s American Investment Bill proposes offering undocumented immigrants who want to stay a path to semi-legal status through a $2,000 annual compliance fee, a registry, biometric ID verification and criminal background checks, and an earlier campaign-promises page still on his website lists creating a pathway to citizenship.^10,14

His campaign website’s Joseph Farm Plan says it would modernize the H-2A visa program to create an affordable, reliable and legal agricultural workforce and make H-2A labor accessible to agricultural processing facilities.¹⁵

1. Make the program easier and cheaper for farms, including for year-round work like dairy
2. Keep the program as it is
3. Raise required wages and worker protections

His campaign website’s Joseph Farm Plan says it would prohibit foreign adversaries from buying U.S. farmland, food processing plants or water rights.¹⁵

1. Ban farmland purchases by all foreign buyers
2. Ban purchases by buyers tied to China, Russia, Iran or North Korea
3. Require more reporting and national security reviews of purchases, but no outright bans
4. Keep current reporting rules, with no new limits on foreign buyers

His campaign website’s Joseph Farm Plan says it would enact a Farm Income Parity Act that ties prices to inflation-adjusted benchmarks from the 2012 farm bill, create a National Ag Pricing Board to audit commodity pricing and enforce farmer-favorable floor pricing, and launch a national farm equipment loan program.¹⁵

1. Expand price supports, crop insurance or emergency aid
2. Keep the programs at current levels
3. Cut payments, such as with tighter limits for the largest farms
4. Phase out price-support payments and rely on crop insurance

His campaign website’s Joseph Farm Plan says it would review and eliminate SNAP expansions not directly tied to food insecurity or nutritional outcomes, and move a portion of SNAP funds into a Farm Sovereignty Fund that stabilizes commodity prices and supports small farmers.¹⁵

His campaign website’s Joseph Farm Plan says it would open 1,000,000 acres of public land for long-term lease to American farmers, and its American Investment Bill says 640 million acres of federal land would be reviewed for monetization, expanding timber, carbon, solar and grazing leases and licensing leases to extract rare earth elements, lithium and uranium; its Local Issues page also says the country needs to invest in National Wildlife Refuges.^14,15,16

1. Protect more land, such as with new national monuments or wilderness areas
2. Keep roughly the current mix of protection and development
3. Open more federal land to mining, logging and grazing

His campaign website pledges that he will not seek re-election unless he sponsors a bill in his first term that introduces term limits and more transparency for Congress.¹²

His campaign website lists trade tariffs on nations importing to the United States among the ways to repay money owed to Social Security, and its budget page counts on new and expanding factories because of tariffs.^9,13

His campaign website’s American Investment Bill would require client companies to pay a $12 weekly fee for each 1099 worker toward future Social Security, Medicare and liability costs, and would audit large gig platforms for tax compliance.¹⁴

His campaign website’s American Investment Bill says countries such as Ukraine that receive U.S. arms would agree to return a fixed share of mineral sales proceeds, and a royalty on key agricultural exports, to the U.S. Treasury.¹⁴

His campaign website’s American Investment Bill says nations such as Israel and Taiwan that receive U.S. military aid would have to give the United States a share of future technology export revenue as royalties.¹⁴

His campaign website says there should be no more pallets of cash for foreign aid, and that only American-made food, medicine and supplies would be sent.¹¹

His campaign website says America must always have the strongest military while also searching for peace.¹¹

His campaign website says he will fight for the unborn, and pledges that he will not seek re-election unless he sponsors a bill in his first term to better protect unborn children.^11,12

His campaign website pledges that he will not seek re-election unless he sponsors a bill in his first term to protect, empower and give aid to law enforcement.¹²

His campaign website’s Joseph Farm Plan proposes federally funded grain storage in every town, emergency clean water reserves in strategic locations and solar-powered backup energy at each grain reserve, coordinated with FEMA and the Department of Defense, to prepare for disasters, war or economic collapse.¹⁵