Phil Gray

Phil Gray's career experience includes owning a business and working as a property manager.[1] Gray has been affiliated with the AARP, LULAC, and the Urban League.[2]

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Campaign website

Gray’s campaign website stated the following:

PAYING THE NATIONAL DEBT

Our goal is debt reduction. It’s now 30 trillion, and will increase to 70 trillion in the lives of our grandchildren. We can stop the growth, and start to reduce it. We pay the debt by benefiting those who pay it, out of self interest. We pay it by easing the path of immigrants. If they choose, they can pay for expedited entry, and pay to stay. All funds raised reduce the debt, and become available to loan. Loan it in replacement of programs that are now funded by taxation. Roads and bridges, disasters, farm and foreign aid, grants, infrastructure, all can be low interest loans, funded by reducing the national debt. As those loans are paid, we can shore up Social Security and Medicare, monthly, and pump the rest out as more loans.

IMMIGRATION REFORM

For the undocumented, let them come out of the shadows, live and work freely. In exchange let them voluntary pay 10% of their earnings to our national debt fund. Their 1040 becomes their green card. For those seeking entry, let them vountariy invest in America and gain entry under a temporary visa. Let them file a tax return to renew.

DECRIMINALIZING USE OF DRUGS

The war on drugs has been a complete failure. Millions of lives have been disrupted or lost. Billions of dollars have been squandered for no apparent gain. Prisons have overflowed with nonviolent offenders. Criminals have made billions, while the poor only suffer. We see no appreciable gain, the street price of drugs has not risen. In fact, they are cheaper today. Overdoses and poisonings have not been reduced. Our families still suffer from this scourge. Rather than lock up the ill, let them be able to maintain their habit and let them restore their lives as best they can.

SOLUTIONS FOR HEALTHCARE

We can take steps to address the high cost of healthcare. Let organizations negotiate healthcare insurance for their members. Let insurers state on their websites what they will pay for procedures. Let providers state on their websites what they will charge for a procedure. Let the consumer choose among insurers and among providers.

PROVIDING OPTIONS FOR PUBLIC DEBT RELIEF

Let's make it possible for people to benefit by voluntarily paying down the national debt. They can take a low interest loan where the interest pays for our nation's debt and the loan saves the consumer large amounts of money and worry.

FEDERAL LANDS

We seek ways to make the federal lands economically viable so that we can return most of them to the states. We are not including the national parks and nature reserves in this effort. Currently the federal land revenues barely pay for the cost of their administration. Selling off the potentially productive portions will not leave enough income to support the rest, causing the deficit to continue to increase. Allowing hemp production, with the states' blessing, on leased lands is one way to add economic viability to federal lands.

ABORTION

Nearly everybody is pro-life. Nobody likes abortion. I do not believe that it is the government’s place to decide this most painful of decisions. That decision is best left to the mother, and her doctor. Let those who wish to intervene offer support. The opportunity for help should allow for that mother to have and keep her baby, while avoiding the life of poverty that so often is suffered by an unskilled, single parent.

NATIONAL DEFENSE

Much of our national defense can be handled through free trade and diplomacy. We must again be the nation that is trusted by all to keep our treaties and our word. No other candidate has an answer to national defense.

FOREIGN RELATIONS

We must restore the world's trust in America. We must again be the America that keeps to our word. We must be the America that seeks freedom for everyone. We must get away from nation building and interfering in foreign politics. We can lead the world to prosperity by paying down our debt. It is not necessary for American blood and sweat to be spilled with so many other alternatives.[5]

—Phil Gray’s campaign website (2024)[6]

Phil Gray did not complete [the profile publisher]'s 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign website

Gray's campaign website stated the following:

PAYING THE NATIONAL DEBT

Our goal is debt reduction. It’s now 23 trillion, and will increase to 70 trillion in the lives of our grandchildren. We can stop the growth, and start to reduce it. We pay the debt by benefiting those who pay it, out of self interest. We pay it by easing the path of immigrants. If they choose, they can pay for expedited entry, and pay to stay. All funds raised reduce the debt, and become available to loan. Loan it in replacement of programs that are now funded by taxation. Roads and bridges, disasters, farm and foreign aid, grants, infrastructure, all can be low interest loans, funded by reducing the national debt. As those loans are paid, we can shore up Social Security and Medicare, monthly, and pump the rest out as more loans.

LOANS FOR CITIES & STATES

Allow for communities, cities, and states be able to borrow on a revolving basis at 3% interest. They'll make minimum payments until their projects are complete and their employee's pensions are properly funded.

ASSISTING FAMILIES WITH HIGH INTEREST DEBT

Student loans, credit card debt, pay day loans, high interest auto loans, catastrophic healthcare loans, and catastrophic healthcare bills can be transferred to a low interest term loan. Every penny that they pay reduces the national debt and becomes available for new loans.

PRISONER BASED EDUCATION

Allow for prisoners to get an education and then to also teach others. For every graduate, the prisoner teaches gets compensated for his or her release fund. The prisoner gets out of prison with plenty of opportunity to reintegrate into the Free World. The state will benefit from reduced security costs. A busy prisoner is a prisoner not getting into trouble.

PAYING THE NATIONAL DEBT

We must focus on paying down the national debt. It is now passed at $27 trillion as Congress is continually spending trillions in multiple projects. Our debt is slated to hit $70 trillion by 2070, but with the administration talking about the additional stimulus, even that figure may be low. One modest proposal to begin to address the debt is to allow the immigrant to voluntarily invest in America in exchange for free entry and the right to live and work freely. I personally wish that we could have open borders, but cannot pass that through Congress. This is my proposal that can pass Congress, and reach the president's desk. We can let those already here, and those seeking entry, pay voluntarily for their chance at the American Dream. Every dime raised will reduce the national debt. Every dime can then be loaned to others, and the repayment of those loans will reduce the debt yet more. My program will promote liberty by freeing our nation from the chains of debt while making immigration more attainable than is has been in most of our lifetimes.

WHAT HAPPENS TO THE MONEY?

Every week, the Federal Reserve must sell enough bonds and T bills to cover new debt and maturing bonds. The money paid to the debt reduces the bond sales needed, so reduces the debt. The same money becomes available to loan. Loan it to folks with high interest debt, at 8% simple interest, on a term loan. Loan it to students, at 5%, to replace their student loans. Loan it to cities, counties and states, at 3%, for infrastructure repair and pension shortfalls. Loan it to disaster victims, so they can get their lives back on track, and rebuild. Loan it to those with catastrophic medical bills. Loan it to our allies in other nations, so they can ensure their own security, and install infrastructure for their people. Loan it to our farmers, to supplement crop insurance. Loan it to homeowners, who want to run their cars with the natural gas that already flows to their homes, for as little as 80 cents per gallon. Loan it to entrepreneurs in impoverished lands, to make goods to sell to their people, if they will pay their workers a living wage, so they may buy the products they made.

As the borrower repays their loans, every dime paid reduces our national debt. Every dime becomes available to loan again. We keep loaning, and that cash flow will reduce the debt until it is gone. When we start to have shortfalls in Social Security, and Medicare, we can cover them monthly, paying cash, out of the Fund. That will prevent our grandchildren from shouldering those burdens. The loans I have described will reduce the taxed expense of Farm Bills, Foreign Aid, Highway and Transportation Bills, Education, and FEMA. Beyond that, they will enable job creation.

IMMIGRATION REFORM

For the undocumented, let them come out of the shadows, live and work freely. In exchange let them voluntary pay 10% of their earnings to our national debt fund. Their 1040 becomes their green card. For those seeking entry, let them vountariy invest in America and gain entry under a temporary visa. Let them file a tax return to renew.

IMMIGRATION REFORM

No longer can we let our nationalism cause us to dehumanize immigrants.

Let’s allow the undocumented to invest in America to pay to stay. Let them come out of the shadows to live and work freely, earning the wages they deserve. In exchange, I ask that they voluntarily pay 10% of their income to pay for our national debt. Their 1040 becomes their Green Card. When questioned by authorities, they show it, and say “I paid, I stay.” Simple as that.

Let those seeking entry invest in America, paying perhaps $3000 for a temporary visa and entry. Let them be fingerprinted. Issue them an ITIN. Let them sign a statement that they are not eligible for any federal welfare benefits. Then let them come in on a temporary visa that they renew by filing their tax return, including that 10%. We leave them alone to continue investing in America, while working for their future. If they do so for 10 years, they can earn a path to citizenship.

FREEDOM IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE THE BEST POLICY FOR AMERICANS AND THE MOST PROFITABLE POLICY FOR OUR ECONOMY.

DECRIMINALIZING USE OF DRUGS

The war on drugs has been a complete failure. Millions of lives have been disrupted or lost. Billions of dollars have been squandered for no apparent gain. Prisons have overflowed with nonviolent offenders. Criminals have made billions, while the poor only suffer. We see no appreciable gain, the street price of drugs has not risen. In fact, they are cheaper today. Overdoses and poisonings have not been reduced. Our families still suffer from this scourge. Rather than lock up the ill, let them be able to maintain their habit and let them restore their lives as best they can.

SOLUTIONS FOR HEALTHCARE

We can take steps to address the high cost of healthcare. Let organizations negotiate healthcare insurance for their members. Let insurers state on their websites what they will pay for procedures. Let providers state on their websites what they will charge for a procedure. Let the consumer choose among insurers and among providers.

PROVIDING OPTIONS FOR PUBLIC DEBT RELIEF

Let's make it possible for people to benefit by voluntarily paying down the national debt. They can take a low interest loan where the interest pays for our nation's debt and the loan saves the consumer large amounts of money and worry.

FEDERAL LANDS

We seek ways to make the federal lands economically viable so that we can return most of them to the states. We are not including the national parks and nature reserves in this effort. Currently the federal land revenues barely pay for the cost of their administration. Selling off the potentially productive portions will not leave enough income to support the rest, causing the deficit to continue to increase. Allowing hemp production, with the states' blessing, on leased lands is one way to add economic viability to federal lands.

ABORTION

Nearly everybody is pro-life. Nobody likes abortion. I do not believe that it is the government’s place to decide this most painful of decisions. That decision is best left to the mother, and her doctor. Let those who wish to intervene offer support. The opportunity for help should allow for that mother to have and keep her baby, while avoiding the life of poverty that so often is suffered by an unskilled, single parent.

NATIONAL DEFENSE

Much of our national defense can be handled through free trade and diplomacy. We must again be the nation that is trusted by all to keep our treaties and our word. No other candidate has an answer to national defense.

Much of our national defense can be handled through free trade and diplomacy. We must again be the nation that is trusted by all to keep our treaties and our word. While we have the biggest and most expensive military by far, our people are still vulnerable. We must convince the world that attacks on Americans will draw a measured and lethal response. We must continue to help our allies control their hinterlands so that our common enemies cannot use them as a refuge from which to strike us. We can help our allies in the Mideast by again being a force for peace. We can help our NATO allies by creating a nonaligned free trade zone in Eastern Europe that will unite the entire Northern Hemisphere in a free trade zone. Nobody wars on a freely trading partner. We can help China to ensure its flow of necessary raw materials, so that they can achieve their goals through peace. Only through these steps can we reduce our armed forces Without them, we will have to continue to maintain a force that can project power worldwide, and into space.

We have nobody who will focus on the debt, and a Libertarian victory. I will do both.

FOREIGN RELATIONS

We must restore the world's trust in America. We must again be the America that keeps to our word. We must be the America that seeks freedom for everyone. We must get away from nation building and interfering in foreign politics. We can lead the world to prosperity by paying down our debt. It is not necessary for American blood and sweat to be spilled with so many other alternatives.[5]

—Phil Gray's campaign website (2022)[7]

Phil Gray did not complete [the profile publisher]'s 2021 Candidate Connection survey.

Phil Gray did not complete [the profile publisher]'s 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

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What is your political philosophy?

I will enable us to pay the national debt, reduce taxes and leave more money in the pockets of all of us, the job creators.

Is there anything you would like to add?

In an evenly divided Congress, an astute Libertarian will become the fulcrum, without whose support, little can be accomplished. I have no allegiance to Republicans, Democrats, corporations or unions, though I can work with all. My sole constituency is you, and any bill offered must benefit you.[5]

—Phil Gray[1]