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 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. 

• 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.

• Abolishing the State Police and transferring its powers to county and municipal police levels.

• 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 within 3 years, 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, 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. 

• Making the unconstitutional presence of ICE (created under President Bush's neocon Administration, with no mention of "immigration" in the US Constitution) null and void in the State of New Jersey (attacks against nonviolent business owners and employees must end).

• Opposing the collectivism of bigotry that comes with the targeting of undocumented migrants based on race or ethnicity (no different than the hatred of Jews, Asians, Latinos, Poles, or Italians a century ago).

• 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, to alleviate the harm 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 nearly 2 trillion more are being spent per year, with 18 trillion more to be added to the national debt within a decade, 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.