Brian Hardin

When the life of the mother is genuinely in danger and if the mother agrees to terminate the pregnancy at that point.

Strongly Agree

Planned Parenthood is synonymous with abortions. Remove the money from abortions and Planned Parenthood simply ceases to exist

Strongly Disagree

Frankly, the term "EUTHANASIA" means A GOOD DEATH. We all want one of those. The problem comes in the slippery slope of the technological "when and how" to die. I will not support assisted suicide or legislation to make it possible. Birth and natural death are domains which belong exclusively to God. Dear God, save us from the wisdom of lawmakers and the care of regulators.

In Nebraska our tax focus is entirely too narrow: it targets just those who have pursued the American Dream -- home and land ownership -- and it targets them deeply. We need a wide and shallow approach to taxation. Since we're not endowed with the natural resources of Wyoming (our neighbor to the west) or mountains which attract tourism like Colorado (our neighbor to the southwest), we need to look at a state more similar to our own: South Dakota. Their natural resources, tourism, population and weather more closely resemble our own and they have a stronger tax structure (read: much lower and broader) than ours. Their population is growing. Ours is only barely sustaining itself with natural births. They're not losing retirees while our seniors are taxed for social security, inheritance taxes (on their children) and high property taxes. This makes it seem like they never actually realize that "American Dream". The path we move to a broader tax environment which attracts business creators and others to Nebraska is the same path South Dakota, Wyoming, Nevada, Tennessee, Texas and Florida have done so: sales tax. It's not realistic to immediately cut our corporate tax rate from 7.5% to 0%, or individual tax from 5.84-6.84% to 0% right away, but a broadly applied sales tax and cutting those taxes in half puts us as a destination state in the conversation of possibility for business creators. (Yes, we are incrementally changing many of our tax categories -- phasing out social security tax; small changes to inheritance taxes; incremental change to our individual taxes over the next five years. These changes still leave us in last place among all the states that border us.)

We need to review every budget category. Shrinking government begins with running it all like a business. Medicaid spending needs to be reviewed. Our largest cities need to be held accountable for their Defined Benefit plans (which overpromise and underdeliver) for our needed public servants in education, law enforcement, fire protection and the judiciary. Don't let those local problems continue to mount such that the rest of Nebraska is asked or expected to bail them out of faulty retirement planning.

Strongly Disagree

The best and brightest may earn some scholarships. Those scholarships are often funded through alumni. It's not the responsibility of tax payers to guarantee college funding. And higher education has not demonstrated that they are good stewards of watching what they charge students and parents. Guaranteed tax-funded education serves as a blank check for these institutions and I am not for perpetuating their empty courses of study and increasingly leftist indoctrination.

Strongly Disagree

The First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution are not merely the selective domain of the left. They equally apply to cakebakers, nuns, local churches and fast-food chicken joints.

None. The overreach during COVID on the part of state and local governments was unconscionable. The fashionable selective memory on the Constitution during that challenging time serves as EXHIBIT A as to why freedom OF (not FROM) religion appears in the First Amendment of our founding document. It was specifically designed for times EXACTLY like this -- and it was conveniently ignored by state and local governments.

C. And systemic Medicaid and Medicare fraud and waste are rampant. I worked in health insurance for many years and continue to do so. The technology and services exist to end this waste and fraud. We must execute on it -- now. Healthcare (and how much government is in it) has and always will be the fulcrum battle in the path to socialism. There simply is no faster way to grow government than to inject it into your health. Regarding option D... if we abolish it, we need some functioning programs in those two areas. Given that we're struggling to run a Post Office, Social Security and Obamacare, my estimate for our bandwidth on razing and then properly rebuilding Medicaid and Medicare seems a bridge too far. Reform them.

None. Stop artificially and arbitrarily punishing our healthcare workers, our soldiers and many others. Society is suffering because of this hyprocrisy.

1. Close the southern border immediately. 2. Complete the building of a physical wall on the southern border. 3. Engage in genuine vetting of new visitors and students. 4. Apply the same vetting to those already here. 5. Deport anyone who does not pass the vetting. 6. Divert some of those 87,000 new armed IRS workers to investigating these kinds of threats. BTW... divert the others among those 87,000 new IRS workers to the phones for customer support so that more than 1 in 9 calls from consumers and business owners to the IRS can actually be helped to navigate our 79,000 page tax code.

Strongly Disagree

Israel is a sovereign nation. They will solve their own internal strife.

Strongly Agree

We must finish building the wall along the southern border. Where terrain is too rugged, we must police it with drones and manpower. We don't need new laws to establish who can and should come into our country. We do need to enforce the ones we ignore which are already on the books.

The best and the brightest from across the globe. Self-declared refugees must never be allowed to circumvent our immigration laws. Political parties in power must never be afforded the luxury of ignoring our own sovereignty.

Strongly Disagree

All of the above.

Strongly Agree

Limited government assumes that individuals adopt responsibility. We don't begin with authentic liberty. It is a natural result of the other two.

Strongly Disagree

Strongly Agree

Strongly Disagree

Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. I need a perfect Lord because I'm profoundly flawed. I need a Savior who forgives my sin and offers me grace. I need the guidance of the Holy Spirit to live this day better than I could ever live it on my own. I'm thankful that my God is all that and more. Psalm 46:10.

Strongly Disagree

State governments should take on one new expense: PAY THE COST OF A STATE ISSUED ID FOR VOTING FOR ANYONE WHO NEEDS ONE. PAY THE COST OF TRANSPORTATION TO GET TO A DMV TO OBTAIN IT, IF NECESSARY. But we must have photo ID to vote. The alternative is clearly not working.

1. Require voter ID. 2. Eliminate mail-in ballots. 3. Allow only tightly defined absentee ballots (residents in nursing homes, military, etc).

Given that the human condition is naturally a broken one, a compromised one, racism is further proof of our condition. We're treating spiritual problems as though they are purely political and legislative problems. As such, we're using the wrong tools for the job. That said, I do not believe blaming a system will alter outcomes. When we blame systems, we obfuscate and excuse personal attitudes. I do believe individuals -- not systems -- are accountable for choices, words, motivations and actions. Changes in laws alone will not stop it. We have a great many laws to battle discrimination which are already on the books. The outcomes will change when individuals take personal responsibility to do so.

Strongly Disagree

Which people? Going back to when? Shall we also include those who may have been poorly treated by those who receive reparations? Where is that line drawn? Who shall choose? If we exact this cost on society, when will the right amount be reached? How will we know? Since we can answer none of those questions definitively, we should instead focus on positive differences we can make today.

A. Shrink government. Shrink regulatory burdens.

Strongly Agree

To provide those very few services which are not better handled in the private sector.

Very Conservative

Being conservative holds to basic tenets: limited government, personal responsibility and... if those first two elements are in place... robust liberty will result.

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No.

It would be nice deal with challenges one at a time in systematic fashion. Unfortunately, we have several problems happening simultaneously: our tax system in Nebraska needs comprehensive reformation -- not continued tweaks. We won't be able to attract a significant supply of job creators and better paying jobs without solving our tax crisis first. We do that with a broadly-based sales tax and deep cuts to our individual and corporate tax rates. We're losing a lot of our young people (graduates... that means our future) who seek meaningful employment elsewhere as well as our retirees (which means a lot of wealth transitions out of the state) ... and a lot of this is related to our inferior approaches to taxation. Our workforce and housing challenges can be traced back to our challenges with how we treat business owners -- both in agriculture (think property taxes and inheritance taxes) and other businesses (think corporate taxes). Also... We have 57,000 OPEN jobs in Nebraska. Most of them will never be filled. Some may combine and become a new job. Some may be replaced by AI (a small number to be sure). But most will simply not be filled. We don't have a need for MORE jobs. We do have a need for BETTER PAYING jobs. Planned growth in broadband connectivity can provide a pathway for some local workers to find remote/virtual work. That's vital. We need to remove undue obstacles and regulatory burdens so that we can attract licensed workers from many disciplines to help grow Nebraska. Education! I'm talking to you!! Requiring experienced teachers who hold certificates from other states to redo student teaching again inside Nebraska?!?! Let's stop that. Tradesmen need to jump through the same training all over again because their previous experience wasn't here? These regulatory fifedoms must come to an end. The Legislature must work to end these barriers. We have the lowest unemployment in the country while also boasting the highest labor participation rate. WE have the best workers in the world in Nebraska!! We also are only one of seven states not suffering from crushing unfunded mandates from our public sector workers (except for Omaha and Lincoln). And we're the only one of those seven "sunshine" states that does not enjoy either massive tourism or natural resources (energy). That means we do a lot with a little. I would much rather be US than THEM (the 43 other states buried in billions of dollars of unfunded liabilties). Another challenge... District 48 has significant challenges with mental health and illegal drug use. It's rare when law enforcement responds to a call and it's NOT related to illicit drugs in some way. Our LE needs greater support than ever before. A people who can do a lot with a little who also have the greatest work ethic in the greatest country on the planet CAN DO THIS!! I BELIEVE IN NEBRASKA!!

Strongly Agree

Strongly Disagree

Restrictions need to be applied to those who would squelch the freedoms contained in 2A.

Strongly Disagree

If I overeat and my health suffers, can I sue the company that manufactured my fork? Where does this line of thinking end?