Jim Rubens in 2016 NH Senate race

On Abortion: Oppose partial birth abortion; support parental notification

I support:
• End taxpayer funding for abortion and for Planned Parenthood. Redirect womens' health dollars to non-profit women's health clinics and family planning counseling services which do not provide abortions.
• Partial birth abortion ban.
• Parental notification.
• Oppose "buffer zone" anti-speech laws.
• Allow hormonal contraceptives to be sold directly to women over the counter and without a prescription.

On Corporations: Reduce corporate tax rates & repatriate overseas profits

Here's what I will do to make the economy work for Americans:
• Reduce tax rates without increasing deficits by simplifying the tax code and eliminating loopholes. Business and corporate tax rates must be reduced to make us competitive with other nations.
• Repatriate $2 trillion or more in U.S. corporate profits trapped offshore by the present highest-in-the-world 35% corporate rate with both a one-time and permanent rate cut. Returned to U.S. soil, this 100 percent private stimulus money will fund domestic capital investment, job creation and increased dividend payments for savers and investors.
• Reduce harmful regulation. Since the end of World War II, the number of federal laws has increased by 1,500 percent. To tame excessively costly, complex, overlapping, outmoded, and outright harmful regulation, every new regulation with economic impact should be approved by Congress and existing regulations should sunset at 15 years.

On Drugs: War on drugs is a flagrant $1 trillion policy failure

• Supply interdiction drives up violence and drug supplier profits.
• Global illegal drug demand is now $320 billion annually.
• Since 2006, drug trade violence stemming largely from U.S. demand has killed over 100,000 people in Mexico alone.
• Most drug overdose deaths in New Hampshire now involve fentanyl illegally manufactured in Mexico.
• U.S. taxpayers spent $7.5 billion in 2014 attempting to eradicate production of opium (the raw material for heroin) in Afghanistan, yet cultivation there has reached record levels, supplying 3/4 of global demand and occupying a cultivated land area the size of Rhode Island, and providing a major source of funding for the Taliban.

On Drugs: Legalize marijuana; drug-assisted treatment for opioids

For marijuana, Congress should grant states the power to legalize and regulate as they see fit like alcohol. I would then suggest (not mandate) that states require child-proof packaging and labels disclosing potency and health effects, including the fact that MJ use involves performance and brain developmental effects (though far less in the aggregate than tobacco or alcohol). I would also suggest banning advertising & public use, licensing in-state wholesale producers, allowing personal production in limited quantities, and extending DUI laws to cover marijuana metabolite blood levels.

On Education: Unconstitutional for federal government to control K-12

Instead, state and local education funds should be block granted so that elected state and local policymakers and school leaders are free to determine how best to use our tax money to improve student learning by means best suited to our varying local needs.

Congress must respond to parents' concerns about one-size-fits-all schools. Parents do not want their children over tested or mined for personal data. Wave after wave of experimental reforms - like Common Core, promoted by profit-making corporations with an interest in harmful standardization -- have badly stressed teachers, students and their parents and have failed to improve learning.

On Government Reform: Congress is addicted to spending to pay for pork

Kelly Ayotte broke her promise to be a fiscal conservative. During her term of office, national debt increased by $5 trillion. She voted in 2014 and 2015 for the fiscally-reckless, pork-stuffed CRomnibus and Omnibus budget bills, loading taxpayers with $1.5 trillion in debt. These votes are an unpardonable breach of a bedrock Republican and conservative principle.

I will fight for a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

On Immigration: No amnesty; no birthright citizenship; no sanctuary cities

Here's where I stand:
• No amnesty, work permits, or path to citizenship for those who entered our country illegally.
• Build the wall along the Mexican border and defend our borders.
• Deport all illegal aliens who have committed a felony.
• Oppose Kelly Ayotte's I-squared bill which would triple H-1B visas and replace more good-paying American jobs with foreigners. Grant foreign worker permits only when Americans cannot be found to do specific jobs, not to drive down wages for Americans. Foreign workers should return to their home countries each year when their permits expire.
• Fully fund the US-Visit system approved by Congress in 1996 which would log entry and exit at our borders of all non-US citizens.
• Oppose birthright citizenship. Stop giving automatic citizenship at birth to children if both parents are illegal aliens or visitors. The US and Canada are the only two economically-advanced nations to permit this.
• Oppose sanctuary cities.

On Jobs: Enforce that all employers use E-Verify system

Here's where I stand:
• Require that all employers use the existing online E-Verify system to screen out illegal foreign workers and fine employers who hire illegal aliens. Arizona did this and agricultural worker wages went up by 10 percent, construction worker wages went up by 15 percent, and the illegal alien population dropped by 40 percent voluntarily by attrition without the need for costly mass deportation.