Why I voted for Trump?

One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

Someone recently asked me why I like Trump. My answer was that I don't really like a lot of things about Trump. But this election is not about choosing the most likable person. 

We are voting between two vastly different ideologies. We are voting for the country we want to leave our children and grandchildren. Trump represents that future and has proven that he can deliver. He is a patriot to the core and even served his country for four years without pay.

That moment when someone says, "I can't believe you're voting for Trump." I simply reply, “I'm NOT just voting for Trump.”

• I'm voting for the First Amendment and freedom of speech. I'm voting for the right to speak my opinion and not be censored.
• I’m voting for secure borders and LEGAL immigration. I am voting for election integrity to include mandatory voter ID.  (Why would anyone vote against this?)
• I'm voting for the Second Amendment and my right to defend my life and my family.
• I'm voting for the police to be respected once again.
• I am voting for law & order and an end to allowing protesters to trespass and burn our cities, destroying innocent small business. (Tim Walz)
• I am voting for personal responsibility and the end of the revolving door where criminals are being put back on the street. (Kamala Harris)
• I'm voting for the next Supreme Court Justice(s) to protect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
• I’m voting for a return of our troops from foreign countries and the end to America’s involvement in foreign conflicts.
• I'm voting for the Electoral College and for the Republic in which we live.
• I’m voting for the continued appointment of Federal Judges who respect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
• I’m voting for keeping our jobs to remain in America and not be outsourced all over the world - to China, Mexico and other foreign countries.
• I am voting for doing away with all of the freebies given to all of the illegals and not looking after the needs of the American citizens and homeless veterans.
• I'm voting for the military & the veterans who fought for this country
• I'm voting to keep men out of women's sports.
• I’m voting for peace progress in the Middle East.
• I’m voting to fight against human/child trafficking.
• I'm voting for Freedom of Religion.
• I am voting for the return of teaching math, history, and science instead of the indoctrination of our children.
• I'm not just voting for one person. I'm voting for the future of my Country.
• I'm voting for my children and my grandchildren to ensure their freedoms.

America is the greatest country in the world, hence why everyone wants to immigrate here. So why do you want to change it?  Why do politicians want to enact policies that have failed in other countries throughout history?  

I didn't just for Trump.

I voted for America.

November Ballot Propositions

Proposition 2: Borrow $10 billion to build schools. Legislative Democrats put on the ballot a bond issue to give $8.5 billion to K-12 schools and $1.5 billion to community colleges for construction and modernization. Needs simple majority to pass.

Vote NO: No identified funding beyond state general fund (already have $45 billion deficit). Increases the demands on CA general fund (currently in deficit) $500MM/year. Local school districts must raise matching funds, further increasing the tax burden and favoring wealthy districts.

(PASSED)

Proposition 3:  Amends the California Constitution to declare that the right to marry for same sex couples is a fundamental right.

Vote Yes: (CA GOP, Marin GOP)

(PASSED)

Proposition 4: Borrow $10 billion for climate programs. Legislative Democrats also placed a bond issue on the ballot that includes $3.8 billion for drinking water and groundwater, $1.5 billion for wildfire and forest programs and $1.2 billion for sea level rise. Are these bondable?

Vote NO: Another tax to be paid by future generations. Issues $10 billion in debt to offset $9.4 billion in current year cuts to CA’s Climate Crisis program owing to state budget deficits. Increases the demand on CA general fund (in deficit now) $400MM/year for 40 years.

(PASSED)

Proposition 5: Lower voter approval requirements for local housing and infrastructure bonds. This Constitutional Amendment from the Legislature would make it easier for local governments to borrow money for affordable housing and other infrastructure. To avoid opposition from the influential real estate industry, supporters agreed to block bond money from being used to buy single-family homes.

Vote NO: Cuts to 55% (from 2/3) voter approval to pass most local & regional bonds, further putting local cities and counties into debt. Blows a massive hole in Props. 13 and 218 protections. The prospect of passage unleashed a Tax Tsunami and will likely be soon followed by a proposition to lower most other tax hurdles to 50-55%. Why wouldn’t we want 2/3 of voters to approve a new tax? Taxation is a burden under which everyone suffers. 

(FAILED)

Proposition 32: Sets suffers.the state minimum wage to $18 per hour by 2026 for all employers and thereafter adjusting the rate annually by increases to the cost of living. A “no” vote opposes the initiative and would maintain existing law which increased the minimum wage to $15 per hour by January 2023 and increasing it annually according to inflation.

Vote NO

(FAILED)

Proposition 33: Allow local governments to impose rent controls. This is the latest attempt to roll back a state law that generally prevents cities and counties from limiting rents in properties first occupied after Feb. 1, 1995.

Vote NO: Every respected economist agrees that rent control is the surest way to reduce property values as well as available rentals. Prop 33 would decrease property tax (per Legislative Analyst’s Office) and discourage housing construction.

(FAILED)

Proposition 34: Make permanent a tax on managed health care insurance plans. This initiative is sponsored by California’s health care industry to raise more money for Medi-Cal providers and block lawmakers from using the cash to avoid cuts to other programs.

Vote YES: Underpaid Medicaid providers are turning away patients as the program has expanded to cover up to 40% of Californians. Prop 35 renews an expiring tax & restricts its use.

(PASSED)

Proposition 35: Require certain health providers to use nearly all revenue from a federal prescription drug program on patient care. Sponsored by the trade group for California’s landlords, this measure is squarely aimed at knee-capping the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has been active in diverting funding to ballot measures (see Prop. 33, above).

Vote YES: The Aids Healthcare Foundation has been using AIDS funding to promote bizarre concepts (requiring condoms in porn, etc.) on ballot measures for years. The State recently cancelled its contracts with AHF over financial disclosure failures. They have to be stopped.

(PASSED)

Proposition 36: Increase penalties for theft and drug trafficking. It would partly roll back 2014’s Proposition 47.

Vote YES: Prop 36 will reduce crime and drug overdoses by imposing felony penalties on repeat offenders for thefts under $950 and sale of certain dangerous drugs.

(PASSED)

Withdrawn Statewide Proposition: Taxpayer Protection Act (ACA-13): In a highly unusual and controversial decision, the California Supreme Court removed from the ballot a citizens’ initiative aiming to restore and expand taxpayer protections. This was in response to a lawsuit by Newson and the legislature. The CA League of Cities aggressively opposed the TPA, fearing it would roll back recently enacted taxes and raise the barrier to additional future taxes.

Expect the Howard Jarvis organization, the California Business Roundtable and other business organizations to file a modified version of the TPA in 2026 in response to the court ruling.