Mark Small

Fiscal Conservatives of Hamilton County: I appreciate your inquiry about my positions on issues and shall answer the five questions, with clauses, you pose. 1) Do you favor term limits for members of Congress? If so, what period and why? 1/17

Question implies “yes” is the answer. I oppose term limits for members of Congress. Read Federalist 53 by Madison: Framers considered/rejected term limits - ignore principle of people having choice at polls & value of experience 2/17

What is your position on legalizing or decriminalizing marijuana? Medical vs recreational? State rights vs Feds? Prohibition of pot & alcohol have proven equally successful - i.e., not at all successful. 3/17

Any “bad effects” of pot result fr illegality/not intrinsic nature of use of the plant. The World Health Organization has noted: There are no cases of fatal cannabis poisoning in the human medical literature. 4/17

Arguments about prohibition apply equally to all drugs & all drugs should be legalized. I was at one of several events that commemorated the end of the “war on drugs.” The events were called Grateful Dead concerts. 5/17

As to States rights vs Feds: States do not have “rights.” The Decl of Independence makes: Ppl are created equal & endowed w/Rights & to Rts, Govts are instituted & derive Pwrs from the consent of the Governed...” 6/17

Governments have powers derived from the consent of people. To say any government has “rights” is to put that, or any, government on a level equal to human beings who create government. The Framers did not do that. 7/17

3) What proposals would you make in order to decrease the national debt? Cut military budget by half, eliminate tax cuts for rich, bring back vibrant estate tax, & wipe out natl student debt held (mostly) by same big banks we bailed out in 2008-2009. 8/17