Ted Brown

His campaign website says he would repeal the federal income tax and abolish the IRS without replacing them with a flat tax, a national sales tax or any other tax.⁶

His campaign website says he would make large cuts to federal spending across the board, paired with repealing the income tax.⁶

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 he supports a full, independent audit of the Federal Reserve, followed by winding it down and returning control of money to Congress.⁶

His campaign website says he supports free trade and would eliminate tariffs that work as taxes on American consumers.⁶

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

His campaign website says Congress should repeal the laws that give the president emergency tariff powers and should take back control over trade and tariffs.⁶

1. Give the president broader power to impose tariffs without a vote of Congress, such as under emergency powers
2. Keep current law, which lets the president impose tariffs under specific trade laws but not the emergency-powers law
3. Let tariffs start, but end them unless Congress approves within a set time
4. Require Congress to approve new tariffs before they take effect

His campaign website says he supports trade agreements between two or more countries that reduce trade barriers.⁶

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 says ICE should be abolished, its detention facilities closed and Customs and Border Protection limited to the border and other ports of entry.⁶

1. Abolish ICE and move any remaining enforcement work to other agencies
2. Deport only people convicted of serious crimes or who threaten national security
3. Focus on people with criminal records and recent border crossers
4. Deport as many people here without legal permission as possible, with or without criminal records

His campaign website says he favors an Ellis Island-style system in which foreigners are welcome to come after checks for criminal records and contagious diseases, may enter at any port of entry and may work from their first day.⁶

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 a border wall would no longer be needed under his immigration plan and calls a wall a bad idea.⁶

1. Build walls or fencing along much more of the border
2. Add barriers only in selected places, relying mainly on technology and agents
3. Build no new barriers and spend the money on other border security

His campaign website says the United States should withdraw from NATO and other alliances and bring all troops home from foreign assignments.⁶

1. Keep the full US commitment to defend all NATO allies, and keep US forces in Europe
2. Stay in NATO, but tie US support to allies meeting their defense spending pledges
3. Stay in NATO, but bring many US troops home and have European allies lead their own defense
4. Leave NATO

His campaign website says he would end all foreign aid payments.⁶

1. Restore or increase foreign aid, including programs cut in 2025
2. Keep foreign aid near its current level
3. Cut foreign aid further or end most of it

His campaign website says the United States should not give military or financial aid to any foreign country, especially in the Middle East, and it criticizes U.S. funding for Israel's military actions in Gaza.⁶

1. Increase military aid to Israel
2. Keep military aid at current levels, without new conditions
3. Attach conditions, such as limits on how US weapons are used and requirements to let humanitarian aid into Gaza
4. Reduce or end military aid to Israel

His campaign website says only Congress can declare war.⁶

1. Let the president order military action without needing Congress's approval
2. Let the president act first, but enforce the 60-day limit and end any action Congress doesn't approve
3. Require Congress to approve military action in advance, except to defend against an attack

His campaign website says emergency declarations and executive orders should need approval from Congress before taking effect and that emergency powers should expire unless Congress renews them, and it says Libertarians opposed pandemic lockdowns and business closures.⁶

His campaign website says health care should be provided through free-market competition, and it calls for medical savings accounts, tax-deductible health expenses, buying insurance across state lines and allowing limited catastrophic policies.⁶

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 he opposes red flag laws and would vote against them, saying they are open to abuse and violate due process.⁶

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 he would protect concealed carry rights and end gun-free zones.⁶

His campaign website says he would remove marijuana from the federal list of controlled substances right away and work to repeal all drug laws.⁶

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 end mandatory minimum sentences.⁶

1. Reduce or end mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug crimes
2. Keep current mandatory minimums
3. Add or raise mandatory minimums, for example for selling fentanyl

His campaign website says he does not trust government officials with the power to execute people and that people convicted of premeditated murder should instead face life in prison without parole.⁶

1. Use it more often or for more crimes (for example, child rape or drug trafficking)
2. Keep it as current law allows
3. Pause executions (a moratorium)
4. Abolish it

His campaign website says he would end qualified immunity for police officers and require officers to carry liability insurance.⁶

1. End qualified immunity for police officers
2. Keep qualified immunity as courts apply it now
3. Write qualified immunity into federal law

His campaign website says he would abolish the U.S. Department of Education.⁶

1. Close the department and move or end its programs
2. Shrink it and give states more control over federal school money
3. Keep the department and its programs, or expand it

His campaign website says he supports tuition tax credits for families who send children to private school, and it prefers them to vouchers, which it says could lead to government control of private schools.⁶

His campaign website says he opposes government age limits and age verification for social media and other internet use, and says policing children's internet use is up to parents.⁶

1. Bar children under a set age, such as 16, from having social media accounts, with age checks
2. Require safer designs and settings for minors, and parental consent for younger users
3. Leave it to parents, with no new government requirements on apps