Kokesh for Congress

In theory, corporations can be mechanisms of efficiency serving to improve quality of life by providing jobs, services, and profit through fair and honest competition. Today, many are far from this ideal. Because we have allowed our government to intervene in the economy, it has corrupted it and created special privileges for certain entities at the expense of local businesses, to the disadvantage of entrepreneurs, and with a complete disregard for the economic rights of every American.

We have allowed these corrupt entities to make us temporarily dependent on them, and deceive us into believing that they are “too big to fail.” The recent round of corporate bailouts resulted in rewards for inefficiency, great disadvantages for small businesses, and American tax dollars going to executive bonuses.

In spite of the fact that constituent calls to lawmakers were over 100 to 1 against the bailouts, every Congressman that voted for them was re-elected. The power is in our hands to end this theft from the American people. I will vote to oppose all bailouts of private entities, and instead fight for fiscal responsibility, a balanced budget, and an end to corporatism.