Biography
Voters of Windsor County, – Whether you are Democrat, Republican or Independent, – Why vote for Jack Williams for Vermont State Senate on November 5, 2024? Born and raised in a hardworking middle class family, I started working when I was 15 and am currently retired.
In my 50+ year work career, I have server the people from positions in the Federal Government, State Government, and Private Industry, all the while raising a family, being a responsible parent, husband and citizen. During the 1973 gas shortage and high tax years of President Jimmy Carter, I know what a young family faces when they are struggling financially, and now in my later years, facing Vermont property taxes so high, that even though my house may be paid off, I will have a monthly tax payment the size of a high mortgage payment. I am fiscal conservative and I value strong families, marriage, work ethics, honesty and integrity. I feel it is a duty to server your country and your state in whatever capacity you can, and I consider it an honor to serve the people. I am asking for the vote of all Windsor County Democrats, Republicans and Independents, in turn, I PLEDGE to the voters to:
(1) Listen to the voice of the people, and to represent the will of the people, as your State Senator in Montpelier,
(2) Make it very clear to the voter where I stand on all issues, and
(3) Work in a bi-partisan productive manner with all elected state representatives to accomplish the will of the people in the best interest of Vermont.
Candidate occupation
Retired
Why are you running for office?
I feel it is a duty to server your country and your state in whatever capacity you can, and I consider it an honor to serve the people as a State Senator.
Issues in brief
Do you believe Vermonters are better off now than they were 10 years ago?
No
Do you believe Vermont needs a new education funding formula?
Yes
Do you support imposing new taxes on the wealthiest Vermonters?
No
Do you support the establishment of overdose prevention centers?
No
Do you support a ban on flavored tobacco products?
Yes
Do you support increasing penalties for property crimes such as shoplifting?
Yes
Do you believe Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election?
No answer
Issues in depth
What would you do to help grow Vermont’s economy?
(1) Get inflation under control to increase the purchasing power of citizens;
(2) Update Act 250 to increase availability of housing by increased building and refurbishing projects;
(3) Allow free market principles to determine the value of housing;
(4) Identify lending institutions Nationwide to provide financing for low income home buyers.
(5) Lower tax rates across the board to attract businesses and citizens.
(6) Lower college tuition, both in-state and out of state to attract students.
(7) Support Vermont farms to provide high quality foods and dairy products for in-state use and exports.
(8) Support Vermonts hi-tech industry to produce innovative products for in-state use and exports.
(9) Review and repeal all state and local laws that hinder housing and business growth.
What changes, if any, would you make to the way Vermont funds its schools?
(1) Work with School Superintendent across the state to revise “Pupil Weights ” in Act 127.
(2) Review expenditures of the State Budget that can be better used in the Education Fund.
(3) Study the feasibility of placing a “Cap” on homestead property taxes, similar to a cap on sales taxes.
(4) Use Federal School Funds “Judiciously” to supplement State education funding.
Is Vermont doing enough, too much or not enough to address climate change? Please explain.
If climate change has been established as a scientific fact, then it is a global issue, and therefore it should be addressed by “leading scientists” of the world, to determine the global impact. Global warming questions to ask:
(1) Why is China, India, and 3rd Nations, who are the biggest contributor to global warming, not required to do anything to alleviate global warming ?
(2) Why are the Western Nations, who contribute the least to global warming, forced to do the most to alleviate global warming? – As for Vermonts role in addressing climate change! The first rule of leadership: “Lead by Example”, therefore as an elected public servant, you do not enact laws requiring the public to do something that you are exempt from.
(1) If you want to do away with fossil fuel vehicles and go totally electric, then you should have already gotten rid of your fossil fuel vehicles and are now charging your EV on a electric grid powered by wind turbines and solar panels.
(2) If you want to do away with propane and oil home heating and electricity provided by nuclear, hydro or coal generators, then you should already be heating your home and getting your electricity from a electric grid powered by wind turbines and solar panels, even though wind turbines don’t work without wind and solar panels don’t work when they are covered in snow. – Bottom Line, Yes Vermont is doing too much and is unrealistic in its approach to climate change.
Is Vermont doing enough, too much or not enough to regulate gun ownership? Please explain.
When my family and I moved to Vermont 33 years ago, Vermont was classified as either the number 1 or number 2 safest state to live, having either the lowest or second lowest crime rate in the United States. Vermont has always had a rich tradition of hunting, fishing and gun ownership, with at one shooting ranges in every town and at least 80 to 90% of all family in Vermont owing guns. Vermont has produced some of the best marksmen in the United States, while at the same time observing nationally recognized gun safety. Traditionally, gun crimes were nonexistent in Vermont. What then has changed, making the Vermont Legislature feel they must enact gun laws to regulate gun ownership. Well, let’s go back to the 1960’s when we started seeing drug use in America. The innocent “marijuana” drug use of the 1960’s has morphed into a nationwide drug epidemic of epic proportion and sky rocketing crime of today. With every imaginable type of drug flooding every state of America along with out of control crime, the solution to this problem by elected officials is to legalize marijuana and provide safe injection sites, thereby exacerbating the problem even further. The scapegoat for the high crime epidemic resulting from drug trafficking is “Blame the Gun”. What elected “Public Servants “ need to do is focus on the high crime areas of Nation, find the root causes of these crimes, not bury the facts, and they will discover its “out of control drug trafficking” and not “Law Abiding Gun Ownership “ that is the root problem. – Bottom Line, Yes Vermont is doing too much and is unrealistic in its approach to gun ownership.
What would you do to help ease Vermont’s housing crisis?
(1) Get inflation under control to increase the purchasing power of citizens;
(2) Update Act 250 to increase availability of housing by increased building and refurbishing projects;
(3) Allow free market principles to determine the value of housing;
(4) Identify lending institutions Nationwide to provide financing for low income home buyers
How would you address rising homelessness in Vermont?
Homelessness in Vermont and the Nation is a result of out of control drug use of epidemic proportion’s, exacerbated by State Legalized marijuana use and safe injection sites and a destabilized family life, usually drug and abuse related. There are 3 solutions to Vermonts and the Nations homeless problem:
(1) Vote out of office every elected public servant across this nation, who sponsored a bill or voted for a bill legalizing marijuana or safe injection sites.
(2) Conduct a nationwide war on “drug dealers”, incarcerating them for life plus 100 years, with no chance of parole.
(3) Each state in the nation, purchase a 1000 to 5000 acre farm within their state and set it up as a rehabilitation site for homeless people. Staff it with “Real” administrators, doctors, teachers, clergy, tech professionals, and professional farmers who have “genuine” empathy for people. – Not with the “Social Engineering” quacks who are currently administering our homelessness crisis. Build facilities on these sites; housing to house the population, classrooms to teach, medical facilities to heal physical problems, house of worship to heal the spirit, tech centers and farming to learn the values of work, – In other words you are putting live back together for people who have been broken by drugs, alcohol, and abuse.
What would you do to increase access to health care services for Vermonters?
First, understand health care services is available to every “Citizen” of this Nation, and Vermont is no exception. The problem is health care insurance, out of control medical costs and hospitals going bankrupt.
(1) Addressing health care insurance: to begin “Obama Care” was and still is the biggest farce ever perpetrated on a nation. – Allow free market competition, by allowing and encouraging insurance companies from all across this nation to compete in providing you medical insurance. This nationwide competition over time, will result in some great medical insurance plans.
(2) Addressing out of control medical costs: The medical field and drug companies are not open to any one questioning their pricing or costs. Therefore a collation of nationwide insurance providers using free market competition along with state regulators to guard against monopolies can hold medical providers and drug companies feet to the fire, resulting in lowering and stabilizing prices.
(3) Addressing hospitals and medical facilities going bankrupt: This should not happen, but sadly it’s a fact of life and does happen. Therefore the state needs to identify critical areas of the state where medical facilities must be supported at all cost in order to serve all the people of Vermont. In other words, North West would be Burlington or St Albans, the North Easts would be St Johnsbury, the Central West would be Rutland, the Central East would be Springfield, the South West would be Bennington, and the South East would be Brattleboro. Dartmouth Medical Center in Lebanon, NH is the “Ace in the Hole” capable of serving most of the Eastern side of Vermont conveniently.
Financial disclosure
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