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Todd Achilles

Liberal
Independent
N/A
Idaho

Current Position: Former State House Representative ID-16B

Running For: Senator

Policy Positions

Economic Policy

  • For eliminating corporate tax loopholes and prosecuting wealthy tax cheats
  • For equalizing capital gains and ordinary income tax rates over $1 million
  • For reducing taxes on middle class families and small businesses

Business & Labor

  • For banning non-compete agreements that restrict worker mobility
  • For taxing corporate share buybacks to discourage profit distribution to investors over workers
  • For prohibiting corporate ownership of single family homes
  • For banning algorithmic price fixing by apartment property managers
  • For breaking up Google's monopoly in search and advertising

Health Care

  • For maintaining ACA healthcare tax credits while reforming the marketplace

Education

  • Against Idaho's private tuition voucher tax credit system (H93)
  • For federal education funding including Title I schools and rural school support

Environment

  • For permanent ban on selling public lands to fund national debt

Civil Rights

  • For women making their own healthcare decisions without government interference
  • For voter-led initiative to restore access to reproductive healthcare in Idaho

Voting Rights & Democracy

  • For term limits via Constitutional amendment: two terms in Senate, three in House, 18 years for Supreme Court justices
  • For getting money out of elections and prohibiting companies doing federal business from donating to candidates
  • For banning Congressional stock trading in companies doing federal business

Immigration & Foreign Affairs

  • For Congressional approval before any U.S. military deployment
  • For using military only when America's security is at risk
  • For securing the border and fully staffing Customs & Border Protection

Public Safety

  • For defending Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens
  • For proper weapons training and safe storage of firearms
  • For requiring social media platforms to disclose their algorithms