Platform | Vote4vic

Vic Kaplan Supports:

civil liberties, IMMIGRATION & constitutional rights

Vic will defend your natural rights to life, liberty, and property - the inalienable rights you are born with. The purpose of the federal government is to protect these rights.
Vic supports the intervention of the federal government to protect the natural rights on any level.
Vic will defend your right to free speech under the 1st amendment, including your right to criticize any level of government, within or beyond our borders.
Vic supports ending any federal discrimination based on race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.
Vic opposes "loyalty oaths" to any foreign government on a federal level. Vic is solely a citizen of the United States, and not of any foreign country. Vic opposes representation of any foreign country or government in the halls of the United States Senate. Furthermore, Vic opposes accepting any campaign contributions on behalf of any foreign lobby, representing a foreign government.
Vic supports enforcing the US Constitution on US soil by supporting making the existence of ICE (which did not exist before 2003) null and void (Article I, Section VIII of the US Constitution only mentions "naturalization" (citizenship) as a federal power, not immigration). Due process rights for all people on the US soil have to be protected. The US Constitution covers all people, not just US citizens.
Vic opposes the collectivism of bigotry that comes from the targeting and scapegoating of undocumented migrants, such as falsely blaming immigrants for higher medical bills, rent, car insurance rates, etc.
Vic also rejects all federal policies that are leading to a mess in the immigration system, while impersonating communist tyrannies, such as the one that existed under the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. From government agents asking people in the streets for papers, to people disappearing, to arrest quotas, where naturalized citizens and US-born citizens are arrested, who have broken no law, these policies have also included the deportations of documented immigrants, and naturalized citizens, who have broken no law. Asylum seekers, who have broken no law, have been arrested in immigration courts, and denied citizenship.
Unlike 120 years ago, federal immigration restrictions make it nearly impossible to legally come to the US, which explains the federal government incentivizing an increase in undocumented immigration, especially after 1996, when President Clinton signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) into law. The law further incentivized undocumented immigration, as it banned decriminalization via family members and employers, leading to migrant workers permanently settling in the US, rather than returning to their home countries, as it had been the case in the past.
Furthermore, the federal government has incentivized migration into the US by damaging foreign countries militarily, or as was the case in Venezuela, via economic sanctions, that led to more people coming to the US.
The federal government has also incentivized deportations by setting a set amount of dollars for each arrest and raising arrest quotas at 3,000 per day, all at taxpayers' expense. About 94% of the people arrested by ICE had no violent convictions, and 70% had no convictions. Let the local police deal with law enforcement, if anyone does commit violent or property crime. Let employers fund the travel and training of immigrant employees, with various support groups offering financial assistance, as this had been done in the past for the Italian-Americans, and other groups. The Border Patrol is responsible for securing the US border and is separate from immigration policies. In line with the 10th Amendment of the United States Constitution, the power to regulate immigration, would be granted to the states and the people (as it was throughout the 19th century, before the federal government stepped in with the Chinese Exclusion Act).
Vic supports ending any future federal attacks against private companies that choose to hire workers that include such categories as race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation.

criminal justice & law enforcement

Vic believes that no individual should be above the law and is a proponent of ending Qualified Immunity for federal law enforcement agencies.
Vic supports cashless bail, Civilian Review Boards, the release of Internal Affairs Records, as well as “Use of Force” reporting, when no firearm is discharged.
Vic is determined to eliminate racial profiling in federal law enforcement.
Vic supports ending end no-knock searches, preventive detention, and asset freezing of the accused.
Vic supports ending asset forfeiture, where private property is seized without due process.
Vic supports removing nonviolent, victimless crimes from federal jurisdiction and ending the Prison-Industrial Complex that disproportionally targets the marginalized individuals of our communities.
Vic supports releasing anyone convicted at the federal level, solely of a nonviolent, victimless crime.
Vic believes that federal Jury Duty should be voluntary.
Vic supports federal Jury nullification - your right as a juror to vote your conscience if you believe the law is unjust.

taxation, war spending, & fiscal policy

Vic's flagship aims to reduce and gradually end the federal Income Tax (the majority of the federal revenue does not come from the federal Income Tax), by supporting the significant cutting most of the warfare spending, that impoverishes the American people (the majority of the federal discretionary spending). This spending makes the American people poorer, by spending our money on programs that destroy wealth. Trillions of dollars would then be available, to take the people out of poverty, reduce homelessness, and significantly improve the lives of the American people.
Vic supports closing all of the 800 military bases overseas and returning all 175,000 troops home from 178 countries.
Vic supports a complete and an immediate end to all taxpayer-funded weapons sales to foreign governments, which falls outside of the powers of the federal government under Article I, Section VIII of the US Constitution. Under the same article, the warmaking powers fall within Congress - not the President - which has the power declare war but has not done so since 1950.
Vic has supported and will continue to support a non-interventionist foreign policy by the US federal government. Vic has consistently opposed every US participation in wars since the end of the 20th century (which were all fought outside of the US federal government jurisdiction - see above, including the current Iran War, which is verifiably being fought under false justifications (the Iranian government has not had a nuclear weapons program since 2003 as verified both by the US intelligence and the IAEA, the USS Cole attack was not organized by the Iranian government, the Iranian government did not kill US troops in Iraq during the Iraq War, the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings were not carried out by the Iranian government, etc.), and has taken part in peace rallies.
Vic calls for the immediate defunding of the Iran War, as it is being fought both under verifiable false pretenses and without congressional authorization, under the US Constitution. This does not include harm to the American people both in terms of lives and the economic damage to the people of the United States, and the people abroad. Leaving the false reasons for the Iran War aside, former US public officials had taken money from the MEK - an Iranian organization that killed Americans, which was listed as a terrorist group by the State Department, and yet these US public officials faced no prosecution by the US federal government, unlike regular Americans, because they happen to support a "regime change" in Iran.
Vic supports ending all economic sanctions and embargoes that hurt the people overseas. Let people trade and deliver humanitarian aid, as needed. Only death and human suffering could come at the barrel of the gun, not humanity. War of aggression is the worst action that the US federal government could do to people. The taking of human life via aggression is an act of evil, whether it is done by one person, a group of private individuals, or by the federal government. Weapons' funding by members of Congress, does not reduce their personal share of responsibility for the deaths of men, women, and children. They stay silent, as innocent US citizens are killed overseas, by their favorite foreign government, that they support, with our money.
Vic supports ending all federal spending on nuclear weapons.
Vic supports eliminating all Corporate Welfare and tax credits for corporations.
Vic supports that all mandates include resources to adequately fund them.

healthcare

Vic will work tirelessly to make healthcare more affordable, by ensuring competition via legislation, through such actions as breaking up of the Insurance-Industrial Complex by severing ties with the insurance company monopolies, thus ending the cost-boosting mandates that make healthcare unaffordable for millions of Americans.
Vic supports targeting the healthcare monopoly, by letting people to pay for services out of pocket, to bring down the healthcare costs.
Vic believes in a woman's right to seek an abortion, and opposes any use of federal tax dollars to fund the procedure.

education & family

Vic supports making college affordable for all students, by forcing colleges to bring their skyrocketing costs down, via the withdrawal of all federal grants and loans. If colleges refuse to bring their unaffordable and skyrocketing (for decades) costs down, they will have to shut down, because the students will go to colleges they can afford.
Vic supports a right of the American people to file for financial bankruptcy due to their inability to pay off student loans.
Vic is an advocate for Parental Choice on a local level, when it comes to education, whether the parents choose public schools, charter schools, private schools, or homeschooling.
Vic supports the federal government staying out of marriage or consenting adults making decisions regarding their personal lives. The federal government should end all discrimination based on gender.

housing & development

Vic wants to make housing more affordable by ending the tariffs on lumber and other material, that makes housing more expensive.
Vic supports working with local governments, to help end impact fees (taxes on new housing) and legalize all small & tiny homes, as well as RVs to make housing more affordable. Vic supports the idea of using the abandoned residential and commercial buildings to provide housing for the homeless. Affordable housing will lead to less homelessness.

environment & energy

Vic supports protecting the environment by enforcing the "polluter pays principle" and property rights to control pollution.
Vic supports including air and water into the legal system of property rights for the purposes of litigation against polluters.
Vic supports ending the energy monopolies, by letting the people to choose their energy providers. This will bring the energy prices down.

agriculture & property rights

Vic stands with farmers, supporting their unencumbered right to grow, sell, and buy the products of their choice.
Vic supports ending the practice of transferring private property under eminent domain, without the consent of the owner.

labor & workers' rights

Vic wants to end government back-to-work orders for striking workers.
Vic supports the right of workers and employers to organize secondary boycotts.
Vic defends the right of workers to form cooperatives.

government reform and social security

Vic supports maintaining a safety net when it comes to federal programs, until alternatives are available to transfer individuals to similar programs. The DOGE tactics of instantly kicking people off federal assistance programs, represent "kicking the baby out with the bathwater", and should be opposed.
Vic supports making retirement affordable, by offering individual retirement accounts to all people, that would yield a safe and secure retirement. The savings would come from the Warfare State – targeted spending cuts and the Social Security tax, while every Social Security recipient would continue to receive their benefits.

2nd amendment/gun rights

Vic stands with your right to Self-Defense. Vic supports your natural right to life, liberty, and property, which includes your natural right to protect your life and your property from those who intent them harm. The idea that women, for example, should not be able to defend themselves against the intruders; or separately against their exes against whom there are restraining orders, runs against the women's natural rights. The solution to gun violence is not to maintain the policy of denying the individuals and marginalized groups their natural right to protect their life or their property.

opposition to tariffs

Vic has 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.
Vic supports lowering of all tariffs to under 5%.
Vic supports repealing of all tariffs and tariff increases that go back to the first Trump Administration (which was not done during the Biden Administration).
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. Vic will never celebrate the destruction of individual savings and standard of living with higher inflation and the destruction of job growth in the private sector. Vic calls for renegotiating trade deals by the State government to alleviate the harm and cruelty to the people of New Jersey and the United States.

rejection of "trickle-down economics"

Vic does not support the flawed concept of "trickle-down economics" at any level of government. Cutting taxes 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 uncorroborated exercise in wishful thinking. With less revenue coming in, these policies create holes in the budget, which are them "made up" with tax increases on the Middle Class, more debt (lower economic growth), and higher inflation, which especially hurts the Working Poor.

tHE FEDERAL RESERVE and inflation

Vic supports introducing competing currencies (silver, etc..) and abolishing the inflation-boosting Federal Reserve, which impoverishes the American people, increases income inequality, and enriches the wealthiest political cronies (1%) at the expense of the rest of us (99%). The top 1% gets to spend the money, first, and by the time the money gets to us, it is worth less. We have seen the worst job growth in 2025, since 2003. It is time to strike against the private bank, called the Federal Reserve, that makes you poorer. This would significantly increase the value of your money, greatly reduce inflation, increase your savings, reduce poverty, and strike against the war funding, that impoverishes the American people. Finally, it would grant transparency on how your money is being spent, instead of having the Federal Reserve perform such actions, such as give your money to foreign banks, without any say from you, the President, or Congress.