Kurt Erickson strongly supports limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies. He will never vote for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution.

• Debt and Taxes: Working Americans like lower taxes. So do I. Lower taxes benefit all of us, creating jobs and allowing us to make more decisions for ourselves about our lives. Read more...
• American Independence and Sovereignty: So called free trade deals and world governmental organizations like the International Criminal Court (ICC), North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT), World Trade Organization (WTO), and Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) are a threat to our independence as a nation. They transfer power from our government to unelected foreign elites. Read more...
• Terrorism: Recent estimates place the number of trained Islamic fighters between 40,000 and 100,000. These fighters pose a threat to American national security as long as they are motivated to fight the United States. Read more...
• Sanctity of Life: Life begins at conception, and the right to life is an inalienable right granted by our Creator. Therefore, I believe that the right to life trumps the right to privacy. Read more...
• Second Amendment: I share our Founders’ belief that in a free society each citizen must have the right to keep and bear arms. They ratified the Second Amendment knowing that this right is the guardian of every other right, and they all would be horrified by the proliferation of unconstitutional legislation that prevents law-abiding Americans from exercising this right. Read more...
• Health Freedom: Americans are justifiably concerned over the government’s escalating intervention into their freedom to choose what they eat and how they take care of their health. Read more...
• Home Schooling: I will commit to ensuring home schooling remains a practical alternative for American families. Read more...
• No Taxes on Tips: It is an outrage that waiters, waitresses, and other service-sector employees have to pay taxes on the tips they earn. The IRS makes an estimate of how much service-sector workers will make in tips, and taxes them on it even if the taxpayer did not actually earn as much as the IRS' estimate! Read more...
• Racism: A nation that once prided itself on a sense of rugged individualism has become uncomfortably obsessed with racial group identities. The collectivist mindset is at the heart of racism. Read more...
• Veterans: Many politicians talk about honoring our veterans and their sacrifices. Yet so often the rhetoric obscures the reality that the federal government treats veterans badly. Congress wastes billions of dollars on countless unconstitutional programs, but fails to provide adequately for the men and women who carry out the most important constitutional function: national defense. Read more...
• Border Security and Immigration Reform: The talk must stop. We must secure our borders now. A nation without secure borders is no nation at all. It makes no sense to fight terrorists abroad when our own front door is left unlocked. Read more...
• Privacy and Personal Liberty: The biggest threat to your privacy is the government. We must drastically limit the ability of government to collect and store data regarding citizens’ personal matters. Read more...
• Property Rights and Eminent Domain: We must stop special interests from violating property rights and literally driving families from their homes, farms and ranches. Read more...
• Social Security: Our nation’s promise to its seniors, once considered a sacred trust, has become little more than a tool for politicians to scare retirees while robbing them of their promised benefits. Today, the Social Security system is broke and broken. Read more...
• Health Care: The federal government decided long ago that it knew how to manage your health care better than you and replaced personal responsibility and accountability with a system that puts corporate interests first. Read more...
• Education: The federal government does not own our children. Yet we act as if it does by letting it decide when, how, and what our children will learn. We have turned their futures over to lobbyists and bureaucrats. Read more...
• Environment: The federal government has proven itself untrustworthy with environmental policy by facilitating polluters, subsidizing logging in the National Forests, and instituting one-size-fits-all approaches that too often discriminate against those they are intended to help. Read more...
• Inflation Tax: Today, the federal government burdens us with one of the most dangerous taxes it can impose — the inflation tax. Read more...
• Energy: Government regulations, taxes, and corporate subsidies have distorted the energy market, causing some prices to rise above what they would be in the free market, while artificially lowering other prices and discouraging conservation. Read more...
• National Defense: A defense policy designed to keep Americans safe should start with the idea that we must secure our borders from those who would cross them to do us harm. Currently, the United States maintains hundreds of thousands of troops in more than 100 foreign countries. In many cases, they are there to defend foreign borders. Read more...
• National ID Card: Those who are willing to allow the government to establish a Soviet-style internal passport system because they think it will make us safer are terribly mistaken. Read more...