Jim Rubens in Survey of 2014 Senate campaign websites

On Health Care: Replace ObamaCare with ideas that harness market forces

• Means test Medicare and Social Security for millionaires
• Negotiate lower pharmaceutical prices
• Combat Medicare & Medicaid fraud
• Increase access by creating more community health clinics, administered locally
• Establish new private-sector healthcare business models
• Reduce defensive medicine costs
• Increase insurance options
• Equalize tax treatment of health insurance expenditures
• Expand state and national high-risk pool coverage for those with pre-existing conditions
• Provide quality and cost information transparency
• Reduce chronic illness prevalence and treatment cost
• Shift healthcare reimbursements from quantity to quality
• Medicare benefits opt-out.

On Budget & Economy: Don't put staggering burden of debt on our grandchildren

The Obama-Shaheen tax hike on the rich plus spending sequestration [will result in 5 years in] annual deficits coming down into the still untenable $400 billion dollar per year range.

By time my son expects to retire in 2062, federal spending will consume over half the output of the entire US economy. Federal debt will amount to 500% of GDP. Just twenty years from now, Social Security and federal medical programs alone will consume over 80% of tax revenues.

Obviously, we cannot expect our children and grandchildren to tolerate these staggering burdens. We cannot wait another six years before transitioning into responsible changes. Politicians as usual will not cut it. Making these changes will require both candidates and elected officials to get really brave and to engage the public in discussion of solution options starting now.

On Energy & Oil: Revenue-neutral carbon tax offset by other tax cuts

• Phase out the current thicket of federal energy subsidies for oil, coal, gas, nuclear, ethanol, wind, and solar.
• Terminate EPA authority to regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act.
• Phase in a producer tax on carbon-based fuels.
• Every nickel from the carbon tax is used to reduce payroll taxes and the effective corporate tax rate, making the carbon tax revenue neutral.
• A carbon tax would be extremely simple, imposed on no more than about 2,000 taxpaying entities at the mine mouth, wellhead, and point of importation.

  A starter carbon tax at $15 per ton equating to about 15 cents per gallon for gasoline would raise about $80 billion per year.

On Gun Control: Individual right to bear arms is inviolably guaranteed

On Health Care: Repeal ObamaCare and replace it with consumer choice

On Homeland Security: NSA gathering data on citizens is abusive & unconstitutional

We cannot trust that this data will not be abused, because NSA grants access by tens of thousands of government employees and private contractors. Should I be elected to the U.S. Senate, I will speak out unabashedly against and work to defund and bar such constitutional breaches.

On Homeland Security: War for national security only; world's strongest military

• The Constitution requires Congressional authorization to engage in the bombing war.
• Arrest the murderous tyrant Assad and force him to stand trial before the Hague Tribunal for killing innocent civilians.
• Syria does not pose a threat to US national security. Encourage the regional powers, such as Israel, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia to intervene consistent with their own national interests.
• Dissuade Russia from continuing to arm Assad.
• Transition the US to a military strategy focused on national defense, to fighting wars only where US national security is at stake, and where we have a plan for outright victory. Such a stance will continue to require the US to have the world's strongest and most technologically advanced military.

On Tax Reform: Pro-growth tax swap: simplify & reform anti-jobs tax code

But, in a break with the past, we must pay for these tax cuts--without growing government, without printing more money, and without loading our children and grandchildren with more government debt. We can swap job-killing payroll and corporate taxes dollar for dollar with a revenue-neutral carbon tax.

I am principled, but not rigid. Conservative economists almost universally condemn America's byzantine, anti-jobs tax code, preferring a simpler system which imposes necessary taxes on consumption, rather than on work & income. This is why many conservatives support the Fair Tax, a national retail sales tax.

On War & Peace: No global policing war in Syria

Jeanne Shaheen and President Obama are also grossly misleading Americans with promises that their war will require no American "boots on the ground." They both know well that the Pentagon last year informed the Obama Administration that, if the Assad regime were destabilized by American intervention, up to 75,000 troops would be needed to guard the 40-plus chemical weapons stockpiles and prevent them from falling into terrorists' hands.

Exactly what message is this bombing war intended to send to Assad and the world's bloody dictators? That America will exact retribution if poison gas is used to kill thousands, but not if conventional weapons are used?