Phillip Beachy

Phillip Beachy was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He graduated from Woodland High School. His career experience includes working as a semi-retired carpenter and refrigerator technician. He owns EcoThunder Refrigeration.[1][2][3]

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

We must-

Get money out of politics.

Enact a 50% income tax for the ultra-wealthy with no loopholes in order to balance the budget.

End the government handouts to corporations.

End IRS abuse of average taxpayers.

Medicare for all (FICA).

Paid family leave.

Cut military spending.

Raise the buying power of the minimum wage to 1972 level.

Save small businesses by increasing the middle class.

Student debt relief.

Fix immigration.

End aid to Israel.

Expand the House.

End the attack on domestic tranquility and the general welfare.

Defund the drug cartels.

Defeat authoritarianism.

Lock up the Trump crime syndicate.

I do not take money from oil companies, drug companies, insurance companies, the banking industry, investors, or individuals and am committed to getting the money out of politics. Because I will not be buying media advertising I will receive no media coverage. With the incumbent having made $50 million since joining congress and being a favorite of AIPAC there is no way I could come close to him in advertising. The Democratic candidate is not aggressive enough at going after the billionaire tax avoidance schemes.

I have a wealth of knowledge and if you like good policies write-in Phil Beachy.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

The influence of money in our system of government is out of control, the Citizens United decision was wrong and must be overturned. We may have to impeach the crooked justices on the Supreme Court.I believe ve we can balance the budget with a 50% top marginal rate if we get rid of loopholes. My rates would only affect the 10%.No more protection and handouts to corporations. We must end the billions in subsidies to the oil companies, auto companies, and other industries. More SNAP less gas.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Tax policy, environment, education, voting rights and caring for the poor, the hungry, the sick, the stranger, and the prisoner.

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am interested in prosperity for everyone, not myself. I believe that good governance is based on knowledge, empathy, and logic. I'm a conservative, and I believe that some of the judicial activism of late needs to be remedied. I have good managerial and leadership skills and would like to lead the Congress back to the job of managing the country.

I spent 40 years managing a main street business and understand what is needed to be done with tax laws to promote a thriving small business community. I have a tax plan that would restore the middle class and reduce the unfair burden on the young while balancing the budget. I have true solutions to our biggest social problems.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

The key to good governance is knowledge, empathy, and logic. Congress has been lazy and has been delegating its work to others. Congress needs to get back to the job of carefully managing our government.Far too large a percentage of our elected officials are slaves to their corporate donors. I have no donors I ask for no donations. If you like my policies, please ask your friends to consider my candidacy.The biggest problems facing us are income inequality, inflation, border security, defense spending, immigration, healthcare, guns, the environment, taxes, and defending freedom not necessarily in that order..

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

I'm very interested in getting corporate money and dark money out of politics. And returning fairness to media.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

Eli Beachy was a person that without fail treated others the way he would like to be treated. He was a wonderful father and a good example of how to be a man.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

I think it's very important for an elected official to give a fair hearing to all points of view. It's also important to remember that a general consensus is usually best.

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

I believe that knowledge, empathy and logic are the keys to good governance. I am well read, very empathetic and intelligent and can do the best job of being your senator.

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

Our elected officials must. remember that the government is responsible for not only our defense, but our general welfare. And even though I'm a conservative, I am not for the privatization of the mechanisms we have to protect the general welfare.

What legacy would you like to leave?

I would like to leave a Congress that is functioning well and not being influenced by extremism.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

I remember JFK being elected when I was four.

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

My father was a homebuilder. I started out working with him doing final finish next I worked on my brothers framing crew after that I worked on the plumbing crew. I pretty much knew how to build a house by the time I got out of high school. After that, I ran the family natural food store for 40 years.

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

I find that that 70×7 thing is really hard to do.

What do you perceive to be the United States' greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?

Until we get corporate money and dark money out of politics, we will not solve any of our great challenges.

What are your thoughts on term limits?

The majority of Hoosiers are for term limits, and I am not opposed to term limits.

What qualities does the U.S. Senate possess that makes it unique as an institution?

With our bicameral Congress the House Represents our diversity of people the Senate represents our diversity of cultures.

Do you believe that it’s beneficial for senators to have previous experience in government or politics?

In some cases I believe it's a detriment for a senator to have previous political experience. One candidate for this office was part of the attempt to overthrow the presidential election, not to mention that his time in the military was spent in the military supplies division, and he seems to be a puppet of the military industrial complex.

What do you think of the filibuster?

I think that the current type of filibuster should be done away with. If one wants to filibuster then one should have to hold the floor.

Tell us your favorite joke.

A termite strolls into a pub and inquires is the bartender here.

How would you evaluate a judicial nominee?

I would vote against any nominee that thought that the Heller v. D.C. decision the Citizens United decision or the Dobbs decision was correct.

What kind of relationships would you build with other senators?

I am very forthright about what I think is good policy and I would have no problem working with other senators from either side of the aisle on important legislation. At a personal level I think I'd like to have dinner with the other senators a few at a time to really get to know them all and determine which ones could be collaborative.

Do you believe that compromise is necessary or desirable for policymaking?

Ernest discussion and compromise where possible are the keys to successful domestic or foreign policy making.

What criteria would you apply when deciding whether to confirm presidential appointees to their Cabinet?

I would confirm appointees that are knowledgeable in the matters of their department and show an ability for logical thinking.

What are your views on financial transparency and government accountability?

I believe that the permanent reapportion act of 1929 should be replaced. We need to increase the number of members of the House of Representatives in order that every government department have sufficient congressional oversight for budgetary purposes.

Campaign website

Beachy’s campaign website stated the following:

Balance the Budget

Step 1-We need to enhance revenues with a realignment of our tax brackets, the elimination of differentiation between investment and regular income and the closing of loopholes.

Step 2 -Get military spending under control. With the current price gouging by military contractors, we are easily losing hundreds of billions of dollars per year to dishonesty. We could save an equal amount by discontinuing programs that are obsolete. There is way too much lobbyist pressure on our legislators to continue obsolete programs for the benefit of the contractors.

Step. 3- Get other domestic spending under control. We have many recognizable problems that need addressing. The lazy members of Congress do not want to do the work in the proper planning and budgeting of these projects. One of the big problems that I see is that Congress will pick a number out of thin air to allocate for addressing a problem. We need to go back to the old way of assessing what projects need to be done, and then allocating the money for them.

Maintain the Full Faith and Credit of The United States

One of the things that has always made the full faith and credit of the United States AAA rated is the incredible natural resources that belong to our federal government.

Politicians are rapidly selling our reserves of non-renewable non-recyclable finite precious resources like helium and petroleum to private industry. The incredible value of these resources is not apparent to most Americans.

This is permanently transferring all rights and ownership to private corporations, contributors of huge sums to political campaigns. Now you know why there’s a big push for more oil leases, US oil production is already at a record high, without proper Pugh Clauses on these oil leases the rights to the oil and helium are permanently transferred. The venture capitalist, the equity partners and other Wall Street scum, are trying to capture the wealth of America for their own.

Climate Change

We must plan for the next thousand years not the next two four or six years.

Immediate steps should include

Add resilience to our energy infrastructure

Decentralized electricity production

Create micro-grids with decentralized electricity storage

Develop hydrogen infrastructure

Prioritize and incentivize clean energy projects

Eliminate other greenhouse gasses

End climate change denial

End short sighted cut-rate government

End fossil fuel use

Develop clean nuclear energy

Petroleum has to be conserved to be used as source material for petrochemicals needed by us now and by future generations. All of our planet’s petroleum will be used up in the next 50 years if we don’t conserve it.

People are the most adaptable species on the planet. Humans can adapt to increased temperatures. The problem is that our food supply relies on a stable climate.

Climate change won’t kill us famine will. Without Change future generations will curse us.

The Problem at our Borders

Border security and immigration are two separate issues. Regarding border security, we need to have more immigration judges to quickly adjudicate asylum cases so people wishing to take advantage of our system are more quickly return to their place of origin.

Comprehensive immigration legislation is needed from our Congress. We need a legal path of immigration for those people wanting to come here and work hard and build a life, with our unemployment rates being at record lows we should be more welcoming. I would not stand in the way of good legislation for political gain.

Firearms

A Hoosiers right to bear arms comes from the Indiana Constitution. The 2007 Heller decision in which the Supreme Court inferred an individual right to bear arms from the second amendment was in error. This should be corrected and control of firearm should be returned to the states.

Healthcare

It would be nice if healthcare were an actual right, then there would be no argument. But to those that say the government has no place taking on something as big as healthcare, I say, you are so wrong. It is precisely because it is so large that government should orchestrate it.

Modern medicine has led to a monumental increase in human lifespans. Making sure that all of us have excellent medical care, and the longest lifespans possible, is our moral duty outlined as the “Golden Rule” or the parable of the Good Samaritan. Members of Congress are quick to quote our need to “provide for the common defense”, while neglecting the very next concept mentioned in the constitution “promote the general welfare”, it is time to end this oversight.

Millions of Americans have little or no health coverage. Medical debt is the number one reason for personal bankruptcy. Our plethora of expensive and incomplete insurance plans causes financial ruin, preventable disease, and death. Inflated insurance and health care costs place unfair demands on businesses and people.

With Universal Medicare

Patients with their doctors make health care decisions

Everybody has full choice of health care professionals and facilities

All medically necessary care is covered

Preventive care is covered

Mental health care is covered

Everybody is covered

Everybody has peace of mind.

No loss of coverage because of an employment change

No more paperwork nightmares

No co-payments, deductibles, or premiums.

No more out of network costs

No restrictions on the kind or amount of care allowed

No financial rationing.

No more medical bankruptcy.

How we save money

We can save more than 30% right off the bat with lower administrative costs.

We can stop misuse of hospital emergency rooms with regular preventative care for additional savings.

We can use the purchasing power of the entire population to negotiate fair prices for services, supplies, and pharmaceuticals giving us even more savings.

With a system that includes our entire population, artificial intelligence can be used to affect much better outcomes at a lower cost saving even more. Total savings of 40% or more.

Other advantages

Businesses can be more competitive against foreign competition when they are no longer burdened with health care costs for employees.

Universal health care can make it easier to start a new business by eliminating the cost and confusion of obtaining employee health insurance. This would be a monumental help to small businesses. Large corporations would lose some of their ability to keep employees job locked and under-paid.

With private equity’s gutting of our healthcare system smaller communities are losing their health care facilities, we can reverse this trend and keep healthcare available in all areas. We will end the decline in the number of primary care physicians that is occurring because of being insufficiently valued and compensated. In a universal system health care system professionals and facilities negotiate fees and receive prompt payments.

It is abhorrent that so many believe any serious need of the people is an opportunity for profit, it is time to get wall street out of health care procedures and facilities. It’s worth noting that Medicare part C insurers are not reimbursing hospitals for their services in a timely fashion.

My thoughts on Drugs

The war on drugs has been a dismal failure.

The war on drugs is responsible for the formation of Mexican drug cartels.

The war on drugs is responsible for ¼ million fentanyl deaths.

The war on drugs is responsible for nearly ½ million unjust incarcerations. (The United States has less than 5% of the earth’s population, while our prisons hold 25% of the prisoners.)

The war on drugs has raged on for 50 years, it has not worked. “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”-Albert Einstein.

Ending the war on drugs would reduce financial harm to addicts

Ending the war on drugs would end unknown dosing and end most accidental overdose deaths

Ending the war on drugs would end the criminal drug market and the chaos it’s caused

Ending the war on drugs would fix our overcrowded prison population problem.

Ending the war on drugs would save us millions of dollars a year in law enforcement and prison expenses.

Legalization and regulation does not mean an open market. Some efforts at change have failed because they tried to eliminate the stigma along with the criminal consequences. Public drug use must be punished the stigma must remain. It is because drugs are risky that they need to be legally regulated each drug according to it’s own risks.

Abortion

Most abortions occur for economic reasons. The best way to reduce the desire for these abortions is by extending a vibrant economy and healthcare to everyone. Having free accessible birth control would reduce numbers further. Abortion must be available to protect a mother’s health or to terminate a non-viable pregnancy. Roe v. Wade should be restored.

On Taxes

Our tax system has gradually changed, staying favorable to the post WWII baby boom generation, and become unfavorable to younger generations. We have lowered the taxes on investment earnings as we have gotten older and our earning have transitioned to investments. Older invested people are content without realizing why younger generations are not able to achieve the same. Many boomers blame a lack of motivation for the younger generation’s financial anemia, tax laws favoring investors are the real cause of the problem. Graduating HS in 1974 the min wage was equivalent to $12.50 today. Raising the minimum wage to that level would give hope to new wage earners and go a long way in helping social security remain solvent. There can be no wonder why capitalism is not popular with our youth. Taxes favor boomers. Min wages have favored boomers. Education cost favored boomers. Boomers that think the problem is the younger generations need to wake up. By a strange coincidence the low wages for basic labor and low taxes on corporate and investment income is a boon for ultra-wealthy political donors.

In America’s wealth is derived from capitalism, the 16th amendment authorizes a tax on gains.

Income regardless of type should be taxed equally, taxes rates should be based on the ability to pay. The IRS practice of choosing the easiest enforcement actions against low-income earners instead of more difficult action against the very wealthy with complicated tax avoidance schemes must end. We must lower incentives on enforcement action against low-income taxpayers and incentivize enforcement of tax law on high income earners.

My Plan

Keep the standard deduction $13,850 for single filers, $27,700 for joint or $20,800 for head of household.

Keep the child tax credits.

Make permanent $20,000 accelerated depreciation.

Increase the corporate rate to 23%.

23% minimum tax on foreign earnings

49.9% tax on foreign corporation’s U.S. earnings.

End capital gains and qualified dividend special rates.

End unrealized capital gains loophole for the ultra-wealthy.

Fix the dynasty trust loophole.

Exempt inflationary gains on primary residence.

Exempt multi-state lottery winnings from federal income tax.

I am proposing the following tax rates.[4]

—Phillip Beachy’s campaign website (2024)[5]

U.S. Senate Indiana

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U.S. House Indiana

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am a social justice conservative. Climate change is our most pressing issue. It is time to base our policies on science and logic. We need to come together quickly to save our planet and our democracy. I am neither a radical socialist or deplorable.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

I want to represent you. When 85% of the people in the third district would like to see term limits how could any representative possibly be for anything else? It’s time to replace Jim Banks with someone that will represent you. If you study my positions your phone is that they are in line with what the majority of the people in our district believe.I have a natural gift for science logic and math. So many of our problems seem to have simple solutions but only if you look at them in the long term not in terms of the next election cycle. We need nerds like me we can plan for the distant future and overlook any temporary inconveniences caused by doing the right thing.In my interactions with others I truly believe that one should treat others the way they would want to be treated.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

I am passionate about ensuring the dignity of all humans. Return logic and reason to the forefront of policy making decisions. Fight the exploitation of workers. And most of all save the planet.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

My fathers was the person I most admired. He was very intelligent and generous to a fault. He was a fine and decent man.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

The most important thing is to represent all of the people not just some special interests.

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

I am extremely good with logic math and science and I’m not fooled by misinformation. I am very good at working with other people and finding compromise to get things done.

What legacy would you like to leave?

I just want to do my part to make sure there’s a healthy planet here for future generations.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

Cuban missile crisis when I was five years old

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

I work for my fathers home building company from the time I was a child through high school. I operated a natural food store for 40 years on Fort Wayne’s north side.

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

Life has never seemed like a struggle just a good workout.

What do you perceive to be the United States' greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?

Overcoming misinformation and presenting the facts that people need to make proper policy decisions. Policies must be designed with the distance future of mind. People must learn how to put a long-term I had of the short term. We must put the long-term ahead of the short term and govern with logic and reason.

If you are not a current representative, are there certain committees that you would want to be a part of?

I would like to be on the energy and commerce committee as well as the Science and technology committee.

Tell us your favorite joke.

The Constitution says that all bills for raising revenue must originate in the House. What role would this power play in your priorities if elected?

This is the most fundamental function of the House of Representatives. It is it’s most important function. As a representative I would represent the interests of the third district in this regard.