Sam Liccardo

His campaign website says removing the cap on the state and local tax deduction would add greatly to the deficit and mostly help the wealthiest taxpayers, and proposes instead doubling the cap, which it describes as $10,000, for all but the wealthiest 5% of homeowners.¹⁰

His campaign website says he supports doubling the capital gains tax exclusion on the sale of a home, and proposes a federal tax credit for teachers.^10,11

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 says a wealth tax is a bad idea because assets are hard to value, and proposes instead reversing the most regressive parts of the 2017 tax law, such as the large estate tax exemption.¹¹

His campaign website lists among his accomplishments introducing the Protect Our Constitution and Communities Act to prevent unconstitutional withholding of funds Congress has appropriated.¹²

His campaign website proposes that federal tax credits for converting empty downtown buildings into housing be tied to cities and states streamlining approvals, allowing by-right zoning downtown and reducing fees, and lists bipartisan bills he wrote to speed housing construction among his accomplishments.^10,12

1. Have states require cities to allow more types of housing, such as apartments near transit
2. Give extra state or federal money to communities that allow more homes
3. Leave zoning decisions to local governments

His campaign website says Congress should fund more housing vouchers and make them more flexible, including for transitional housing, and remove a federal limit that keeps Medicaid from paying for more inpatient mental health and addiction treatment beds.¹³

His campaign website lists among his accomplishments introducing the Fix It Act, a bipartisan bill to extend the ACA premium tax credits in a way it says would also save taxpayer money.¹²

His campaign website says tariffs can be justified for specific goals such as deterring trade secret theft by China or enforcing labor and environmental standards, but should be used much more selectively because consumers pay for them, and says he supported efforts to eliminate tariffs that raise prices.^12,14

1. Lower or remove most tariffs
2. Targeted tariffs on some countries or goods
3. Broad tariffs on most imports

His campaign website says that as mayor he lobbied House members to support the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an agreement to reduce tariffs and other trade barriers with Pacific Rim nations.¹⁴

1. Sign new deals that lower trade barriers
2. Keep existing deals, such as the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, largely as they are
3. Renegotiate existing deals, for example to require that more of each product be made in the US
4. Leave existing deals and set terms country by country, including tariffs

His campaign website lists the Trade Review Act and the Prevent Tariff Abuse Act, which it says restore Congress's role in setting tariffs, among bills endorsed by Innovation for Good, a group he founded.^12,15

His campaign website says tokens that are not tied to an investment contract should not be regulated as securities, that many experts see them as more like commodities, and that stablecoins need one set of national rules. It lists among his accomplishments cosponsoring the stablecoin law that was enacted and writing the MEME Act to keep elected officials from profiting from cryptocurrency ventures and other financial conflicts of interest.^12,16

His campaign website says ethanol and other biofuel subsidies and the Renewable Fuel Standard mandate raise food and fuel prices, and that markets and science, not taxpayer money, should decide the role of biofuels.¹⁴

1. Expand biofuel use, such as by allowing E15 sales all year
2. Keep the current requirements
3. Lower the requirements or end the Renewable Fuel Standard

His campaign website says he supports a path for migrant farmworkers in the United States to earn legal status through reform of the H-2A visa program.¹⁶

His campaign website proposes expanding the Child Care and Development Fund for low-income families and supporting a bill to enlarge and make refundable the dependent care tax credit for middle-income families.¹⁴

1. Make child care free, or cap what families pay at a set share of income (such as 7%), paid for with new public funding
2. Expand help for lower- and middle-income families through grants and tax credits
3. Keep current child care funding and tax credits
4. Lower costs mainly by easing rules on providers, not with new federal spending

His campaign website says a larger child tax credit, means-tested to target the poorest families, could do more to reduce child poverty.¹⁴

His campaign website says he supports a carbon dividend, under which fees on major fossil fuel companies would be returned directly to taxpayers.¹⁷

1. No tax, fee or cap-and-trade on carbon emissions
2. A fee only on imports made with more emissions than similar US goods
3. A price on emissions from US companies, through a tax, fee or cap-and-trade

His campaign website says he would push against any new offshore drilling and fracking, and for strict limits and enforced lease expirations on existing sites.¹⁷

1. Stop or sharply limit new leases
2. Continue leasing, but keep some coastlines and wildlife areas off-limits
3. Lease more federal land and offshore areas for drilling

His campaign website says permitting reform is needed to expand interstate transmission lines quickly, and lists the SPEED and Reliability Act, which would speed approval of major transmission projects, among bills endorsed by Innovation for Good.^15,17

His campaign website says Congress must, at a minimum, bar states from restricting abortion before fetal viability, and supports the Women's Health Protection Act.¹⁸

1. A national law making abortion legal in every state, at least until viability, as under Roe v. Wade
2. Leave abortion law to each state
3. A national law limiting abortion (for example, after 15 weeks of pregnancy)

His campaign website says Congress must bar states from restricting abortion before fetal viability and must make sure states cannot delay abortion care a doctor deems medically necessary to protect the life and health of the mother, regardless of viability.¹⁸

1. Legal only to save the pregnant woman's life
2. Legal only in cases of rape or incest, or to save the woman's life
3. Legal early in pregnancy only, up to a limit such as 6, 12 or 15 weeks
4. Legal until about 24 weeks, as under Roe v. Wade, and later to protect the woman's life or health
5. Legal at every stage, with no limit based on weeks of pregnancy

His campaign website says Congress must bar states from restricting abortion drugs before viability or offering abortion services through telemedicine.¹⁸

His campaign website says Medicaid and other federal funding should cover abortion to the same extent as other health care, and supports the EACH Act.¹⁸

1. Bar public funds for abortions and for groups that provide them, including for their other services
2. Bar public funds for most abortions, but let clinics that provide them be paid for other care
3. Let Medicaid and other public programs cover abortion (ending the Hyde Amendment)

His campaign website says he supports the Right to Contraception Act and that Congress should pass a bipartisan version of the Right to IVF Act protecting access to IVF and fertility treatment nationwide, along with rights to insurance coverage.¹⁸

1. Guarantee access to both in federal law, including insurance coverage for IVF
2. Lower IVF costs, such as through cheaper drugs and optional employer benefits, without a new federal right or coverage requirement
3. No new federal law; leave current federal and state rules in place
4. Let states limit some methods, such as by giving embryos legal protection

His campaign website says he supports the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and that Congress should restore federal preclearance of new state voting restrictions.¹⁹

1. Restore and widen protections by law, such as federal approval of voting changes in places with a history of discrimination (for example, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act)
2. Keep current law, as the Supreme Court read it in 2026, without the federal approval requirement
3. Stop applying the law to how district maps are drawn

His campaign website proposes replacing Section 230's broad liability shield for social media platforms with a safe harbor only for companies that meet the best practices for protecting children.¹⁶

His campaign website says federal standards should let every voter apply online for a mail ballot without unreasonable requirements such as notarization, and require early voting in every jurisdiction.¹⁹

1. Mail a ballot to every registered voter
2. Let any voter request a mail ballot without giving a reason
3. Allow mail ballots only for voters with a reason, such as illness, disability or travel
4. End most mail voting, keeping it for military and overseas voters

His campaign website calls for clear, neutral and uniform standards for congressional redistricting to limit partisan gerrymandering, along with faster court challenges to maps.¹⁹

His campaign website says he would work toward a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and supports requiring every contribution to a super PAC to be reported within 24 hours.¹⁹

1. Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United
2. Keep spending unlimited but require groups to name their major donors
3. Keep current rules
4. Raise or remove limits on donations to candidates and parties

His campaign website lists among his accomplishments introducing the SUN Act to address unlawful military deployments in American cities and a bill to strengthen protections against improper military involvement in domestic law enforcement.^5,12

His campaign website says Congress must pass a uniform national red flag law.²⁰

1. Adopt more red flag laws, including a national one
2. Leave the choice to each state
3. Repeal existing red flag laws and adopt no new ones

His campaign website says Congress must close the loophole that lets buyers avoid background checks by purchasing guns from unlicensed sellers, and the gap that lets sales go ahead after three days when a check is not finished.²⁰

1. Require checks for all gun sales, including private sales (with exceptions such as gifts between family members)
2. Require checks for private sales at gun shows and online, but not other private sales
3. Keep current law, with checks required only for sales by licensed dealers

His campaign website says Congress should reinstate the federal assault weapons ban.²⁰

1. Ban the sale of these rifles
2. Keep sales legal, with added limits such as a minimum buying age of 21
3. No bans or added limits on these rifles

His campaign website says he supports giving green cards to foreign STEM graduates of U.S. colleges, raising caps on employment-based visas, creating a startup visa and new visas for jobs with chronic labor shortages, and clearing the green card backlog.¹⁶

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 there must be a viable path to citizenship, possibly with a fine or fee, for undocumented immigrants who have lived and worked in the U.S. for about a decade without committing crimes, and supports the Dream Act.¹⁶

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 a federal privacy law should limit data collection to what a company needs, require consent before data is sold, let consumers see and correct their data, allow lawsuits against serious violators and set one national standard that preempts state laws.¹⁶

His campaign website says some age verification for social media is critical, and proposes standards of best practice for protecting children that companies must meet to avoid lawsuits.¹⁶

His campaign website calls for a middle-ground approach to AI rules: updating fraud laws, requiring watermarks on AI-generated content and banning sexually explicit deepfakes, while saying it is too early to require third-party testing of AI models.¹⁶

1. Require government testing or licenses for the most powerful AI systems before they are released
2. Set rules for specific risks and uses, such as deepfakes, hiring decisions and safety disclosures
3. Rely mainly on existing laws, without new rules written for AI

His campaign website says Congress should use federal preemption to block state AI testing mandates like California's SB 1047 until the technology matures, and favors uniform national rules over 50 different state regimes.^16,21

His campaign website says Congress must keep its promise to fund special education for children with disabilities.¹¹