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JD Vance on Government Reform
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Higher housing prices are due to government regulations
JDV: [Inflation] is not the entire driver of higher housing prices. It's also the regulatory regime of Kamala Harris. Look, we are a country of builders. We're a country of doers. We're a country of explorers. But we increasingly have a
Federal administration that makes it harder to develop our resources, makes it harder to build things, and wants to throw people in jail for not doing everything exactly as Kamala Harris says that they have to do.
TW: Whenever we talk regulations, people think they can get rid of them. I think you want to be able to get out of your house in a fire. I think you want to make sure that it's fireproof and those types of things.
So which are the regulations? Because the vice president's not responsible for those. Congress writes those.
Source: 2024 Vice Presidential debate: Tim Walz vs. JD Vance
, Oct 2, 2024
We know the president has to have immunity to do his job
We know that the president has to have immunity to do his job. Should Barack Obama be prosecuted for droning American citizens in Yemen? There are so many examples of presidents Democrats and Republicans who would not be
able to discharge their duties if the Supreme Court does not recognize some broad element of presidential discretion. I'm very confident that they're going to be able to do that.
Source: CBS Face the Nation on 2024 Republican Veepstakes
, Jun 30, 2024
It's time to end the COVID-era changes to our elections
Give Republicans power, and we try to pass a new law; give Democrats power, and they try to legalize electioneering and ballot harvesting. It's time to end the COVID-era changes to our elections--we need to go back to
having an election day in this country, not an election season, and we need other common-sense measures too: Voter ID, signature verification on absentee ballots, and an end to mass mail-in voting.
Source: 2021 OH Senate campaign website JDVance.com
, Oct 3, 2021
Universal voter ID, but make it easier to get
Vance said he supports a universal voter ID. "And absolutely, if people can't afford to get an ID, you don't want that to prevent them from being able to vote. You want to make it easier for people to vote, but you want to make it easier for
them to vote in a fair and safe way. You want basically legal votes to count, illegal votes not to count, and making voter ID the law, that way it actually I think facilitates and supports that goal."
Source: WCPO-TV ABC-9 on 2022 Ohio Senate race
, Jul 2, 2021
End mail-in voting bonanza, make Election Day a holiday
Bannon, who has advanced adherence to the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump as a litmus test for GOP candidates, asked for Vance's thoughts on the matter.
Vance answered indirectly while proposing an end to "this mail-in voting bonanza" and saying that Election Day should be a national holiday.
Source: NBC News on 2022 Ohio Senate race
, Jul 1, 2021
Investigate 2020 election, but we already know what happened
[On election fraud]: "I think we've got to investigate as much as possible," Vance said of the 2020 election results. "I believe sunshine is the best disinfectant. And we're going to learn a lot about what happened.
But, you know, I think at a basic level we already know mostly what happened." Other Republicans in the race have indulged in false or unsubstantiated claims about the last election.
Source: NBC News on 2022 Ohio Senate race
, Jul 1, 2021
Politicians and even lobbyists are not all crooks
Though the GI Bill paid for a significant chunk of my education, and Ohio State charged relatively little to an in-state resident, I still needed to cover about twenty thousand dollars of expenses on my own. I took a job at the Ohio Statehouse,
working for a remarkably kind senator from the Cincinnati area named Bob Schuler. He was a good man, and I liked his politics, so when constituents called and complained, I tried to explain his positions.
I watched lobbyists come and go and overheard the senator and his staff debate whether a particular bill was good for his constituents, good for his state, or good for both. Observing the political process from the inside made me appreciate it in a
way that watching cable news never had. [My grandmother] Mamaw had thought all politicians were crooks, but I learned that, no matter their politics, that was largely untrue at the Ohio Statehouse.
Source: Hillbilly Elegy, by Sen. JD Vance, p.181-2
, May 25, 2017
No government solutions; stop blaming faceless companies
Vance isn't interested in government solutions. All hillbillies need to do is work hard: "Public policy can help," he writes, "but there is no government that can fix these problems for us--it starts when we stop blaming Obama or Bush or faceless
companies and ask ourselves what we can do to make things better."Set aside the anti-government bromides. There is a more sinister thesis at work here, one that dovetails with many liberal views of Appalachia and its problems. Vance assures readers
that an emphasis on Appalachia's economic insecurity is "incomplete" without a critical examination of its culture. His great takeaway from life in America's underclass is: Pull up those bootstraps. Don't question elites. Don't ask if they erred
by granting people mortgages and lines of credit they couldn't afford to repay. Don't call it what it is--corporate deception--or admit that it plunged this country into one of the worst economic crises it's ever experienced.
Source: The New Republic magazine on Hillbilly Elegy
, Nov 17, 2016
We can change social norms, like cultural flip on smoking
I'm a big believer in the power to change social norms. To take an obvious recent example, I see the decline of smoking as not just an economic or regulatory matter, but something our culture really flipped on. So there's value in all of us--whether
we have a relatively large platform or if our platform is just the people who live with us--trying to be a little kinder to the kids who want to make a better future for themselves. That's a big part of the reason I wrote the book: it's meant not just
for elites, but for people from my own clan, in the hopes that they'll better appreciate the ways they can help (or hurt) their own kin.At the same time, the hostility between the working class and the elites is so great that there will always be
some wariness toward those who go to the other side. And can you blame them? A lot of these people know nothing but judgment and condescension from those with power, and the thought of their children acquiring that same hostility is noxious.
Source: American Conservative Q&A with author of "Hillbilly Elegy"
, Jul 22, 2016
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