Vic Kaplan Supports:

• Defending your right to free speech under the 1st amendment, including your right to criticize the US, New Jersey, county, local, and foreign governments.

• Protecting the environment by enforcing the "polluter pays principle" and property rights to control pollution.

• Including air and water into the legal system of property rights for the purposes of litigation against polluters.

• Making housing more affordable by ending impact fees (taxes on new housing) and legalizing all small & tiny homes.

• Making healthcare more affordable by ending certificate of need (CON) laws that raise medical service costs.

• Ending all Corporate Welfare and tax credits for corporations.

• Parental Choice in applying for public schools (across municipal lines), charter schools, private schools, and homeschooling.

• The right of farmers to grow, sell, and buy the products of their choice, in the quantity they want, when they want. 

• Transferring the NJ state control over the Wharton State Forest to county governments.

• Ending Qualified Immunity for State Police (no one should be above the law).

• Keeping abortion legal in New Jersey, while opposing taxpayers' funding of abortion.

• Replacing marriage licenses with contracts between consenting adults.

• Ending all State discrimination based on race, gender, or sexual orientation.

• Opposing "loyalty oaths" to any foreign government on a state level.

• Ending the practice of transferring private property under eminent domain, without the consent of the owner.

• Ending government back-to-work orders for striking workers.

• The right of workers and employers to organize secondary boycotts.

• Ending racial profiling in law enforcement. 

• Ending no-knock searches, preventive detention, and asset freezing of the accused.

• Defending the right of workers to form cooperatives.

• Protecting your Right to Self-Defense.

• Requiring all mandates to include resources to fund them.

• Transferring the State Pension System into the protected individual retirement accounts.

• Ending the State Income Tax (8 states don't have it) within 3 years (we did not have a State Income Tax before 1976, and it was supposed to pay for education. We now have both the State Income Tax and the highest property taxes in the country), while saving you thousands of dollars, and protecting those who are unable to work or cannot provide for themselves. 

• Reducing Your Property Taxes - by reducing your State Income Tax.

• Ending the State Sales Tax within 3 years (5 states don't have a State Sales Tax, and New Jersey got one in 1966), which regressively hurts the Working Poor. This would help the poor and make New Jersey competitive with states that lack sales taxes.

• Making Jury Duty voluntary.

• Jury Nullification - your right as a juror to vote your conscience, if you believe the law is unjust.

• Ending asset forfeiture, where private property is seized without due process.

• Pardoning everyone, who has been convicted of a nonviolent, victimless crime on a state level.

• Turning the job of a Governor into a part-time job after accomplishing these goals.

• Nullifying any future federal attacks against private companies that choose to hire workers that include such categories as race, gender, and sexual orientation. 

• Enforcing the US Constitution on New Jersey soil, by making the presence of ICE (with no mention of "immigration" in the US Constitution as a federal power) null and void in the State of New Jersey (arrests of nonviolent business owners and nonviolent employees must end). Let employers fund the travel and the training of immigrant employees. Private organizations can provide financial assistance to immigrants. 

• Opposing the collectivism of bigotry that comes with the targeting and scapegoating of undocumented migrants (with no factual data to back it up) based on race or ethnicity (no different than the hatred of Jews, Asians, Latinos, Poles, or Italians from a century ago). The federal government's history with immigration restrictions is based on racism and anti-Semitism - starting with the Chinese Exclusion Act that targeted Chinese people as inferior, and later the Immigration Act of 1924, that targeted Jews (with eugenics-based fears of miscegenation - later adopted by the Nazi government), among other groups. The rejection by the US federal government to save Anne Frank and her family during the Holocaust is the direct consequence of the federal immigration restrictions.

• Opposing federal policies that are leading to a mess in the immigration system. While the federal government got rid of the quotas in the Immigration and the Nationality Act of 1965, it severely restricted the ability of people to legally come to the US. With strict limits being placed on the number of work visas and with further limits on family members being allowed to come to the US, the federal government incentivized undocumented immigration. The major incentive for the significant increase in the undocumented immigration came in 1996, when President Bill Clinton with bipartisan support signed into law The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) that prevented undocumented immigrants from becoming legalized through employers and family members. This greatly increased the number of undocumented immigrants after 1996 by incentivizing undocumented immigrants to stay in the US, instead of leaving.  Some of the same public officials who are supporting these restrictive immigration policies are calling for deportations, even though they are supporting policies that have been directly responsible for the increase in the number of undocumented immigrants. This does not include federal policies that destabilize foreign countries, which provide further incentives for undocumented immigration.

• Saving YOU thousands of dollars annually and protecting YOUR rights with these policies.​

statement on federal policies:

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• On a federal level, I have always opposed higher tariffs, as they cause the prices on foreign and American goods to go up, causing pain for the American people, especially the Working Poor. The Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930 made the Great Depression worse & led to the choking off of trade and the downturn of the stock market. I will never celebrate the destruction of your savings and your standard of living with higher inflation. I am calling for renegotiating trade deals by the State government, to alleviate the harm and cruelty to the people of New Jersey. 

• Furthermore, I have and always will oppose the destruction of the safety net of the people of New Jersey. When choosing between cutting Medicaid and offensive war spending, a decision has been made to cut Medicaid. I will always speak out against this heartless behavior of public officials, who lack empathy for the people of New Jersey and the nation. 

• The DOGE is nothing more than a scam to convince the people that "billions of tax dollars are being saved" (with regulators, investigators, competitors, and political opponents being targeted), while adding 4 trillion more to the national debt, while hurting the people of New Jersey with rising inflation and an economic downturn. I am opposed to crony capitalism.

• Finally, I do not support the "trickle-down economics", whether they are performed on a federal or a state level. Cutting taxes just for the wealthiest people does not "trickle-down" to the Middle Class or the Working Poor. Central planning does not work, so the assumption on how the wealthiest Americans will spend their money, is an exercise in wishful thinking, without evidence. With less revenue coming in, these policies create holes in the budget, which are then "made up" with tax increases on the Middle Class, more debt (lower economic growth), and higher inflation, which especially hurts the Working Poor.