Today at 11:01 AM
1. Why are you running? I am running for U.S. House of Representatives, KY-05 because the people deserve better, the people of the Kentucky Fifth District, the people of Kentucky and the people of the United States deserve better representation than we have been getting in the Congress of the United States.
2. What are your most important issues?
2. What are your most important issues?
a. In December 2017, the Republican Congress passed a huge tax cut, signed by Donald Trump that:
1. Gives a tax cut for the rich. Reduces the highest personal tax rate from 39.6% to 37% and raised the income threshold at which this lower rate commences. Increases the income threshold for individuals subject to the Alternative Minimum tax from $160,900 for a married couple to $1,000,000.
1. Gives a tax cut for the rich. Reduces the highest personal tax rate from 39.6% to 37% and raised the income threshold at which this lower rate commences. Increases the income threshold for individuals subject to the Alternative Minimum tax from $160,900 for a married couple to $1,000,000.
2. Gives corporations a massive tax cut, decreasing the Corporate Tax Rate from 35% to 21%. This is nearly a ONE-TRILLION DOLLAR tax cut over the next 10 years to corporations. Also gets rid of the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax for companies that were able to reduce their taxes to very low levels by aggressive tax planning.
b. Our drug problem is totally out of control (having risen from approximately 7000 drug overdose deaths in 1980 to over 60,000 drug overdose deaths in 2016).
c. Our educational system through high school is dysfunctional and poorly performing compared to the rest of the World (in 2015, the U.S. ranked a mediocre 38th out of 71 countries in math, and 24th in science), especially when considering the resources provided, over $12,000 per student per year (in 2014-2015 dollars), the highest in the World.
d. We need to continue to maintain laws that provide that neither women nor racial minorities fall victim to discriminatory practices in hiring, housing, education, nor commerce.
e. We should keep the Electoral College, which, like the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, is designed to assure that neither large-population States nor small-population States get undue influence in our government.
f. I was initially opposed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, because I did not believe that it had a provision where the United States could veto Communist China from becoming a member of it; hence, I thought it was contrary to the best interest of the United States.
g. Concerning NATO, it is in the best interest of the United States, as it is composed of a group of nations that share America's cultural heritage, which is a Western heritage and a European heritage of freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble, and freedom to own private property, and that we can do better working jointly to help to defend each other, rather than going our separate ways.
h. Many anti-immigrants have voiced preferences to repeal or curtail the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which provides that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." The Fourteenth Amendment was s product of America's Civil War, and should remain a part of our Constitutional Law. The questions are due back by October 16th. Please include a photo of yourself as well as your cell phone number, which is 606-391-3549 to be contacted on election night.
Thank you for your consideration.
Kenneth S. Stepp
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