Real positions on real issues. No talking points, no spin—just common sense.
Both parties have been reckless with your money for decades. The national debt is growing by $8 billion a day, and nobody in Washington has the discipline to stop it.
We’ll pursue rescission authority to cut hidden pork-barrel spending, a line-item veto amendment to give the president the same power 44 governors already have, and a balanced budget amendment to make fiscal responsibility the permanent law of the land.
We’re not raising rates—the bracket structure is reasonable. But when billionaires pay effective rates of 1–3% and your plumber pays 25%, the system is broken. That’s not a tax code—it’s a tax suggestion for the ultra-wealthy.
Close the loopholes, simplify the code, and use the revenue to pay down the debt. If it works, then we can talk about lowering rates for everyone.
The number-one kitchen-table issue. Homes now cost around five times the typical income, and nearly half of renters are stretched past their limit. It's a supply problem at heart—so build far more, rein in the Wall Street bulk-buyers competing with families, and stop making it illegal to build.
Healthcare in America is broken—and we refuse to pretend we have a quick fix. Insurance premiums, pharmaceutical costs, and PBM middlemen are extracting billions while families ration care and skip prescriptions. Both parties have tried and failed to solve it.
We’re being honest: we don’t have a comprehensive plan yet. What we have is a commitment to transparency, real research, and the belief that the American people deserve leaders who tell them the truth about what’s hard. We’re working on it.
Child care now rivals college tuition, and young people are being priced out of parenthood—which is quietly fueling our population decline. A pro-family plan that puts money and choices back in parents' hands, without a new bureaucracy.
Everyone knows Social Security is heading toward insolvency, and both parties keep kicking the can. Remove the earnings cap so high-wage earners keep contributing, make real structural reforms, and honor the promise—before inaction turns a fixable problem into a catastrophe.
Keep the Fed independent and base economic policy on evidence, not election cycles. Artificially forcing rates down to win votes will stoke inflation and hurt everyone.
Increase federal R&D investment to maintain America’s technological edge—the countries that fund research will own the industries of the future. And cap university overhead rates on research grants at 25–30% so taxpayer dollars fund actual science, not administrative bloat.
Secure the border, deport criminals, but don’t terrorize communities of hardworking people. There is a humane, effective middle ground between open borders and mass raids—and neither party seems willing to find it.
America’s competitive edge depends on attracting the world’s best talent. Recent changes to H-1B are driving skilled immigrants to Canada, the UK, and Singapore—literally exporting our competitive advantage at the worst possible time.
Fix visa abuse, but don’t gut the program that keeps America at the forefront of global innovation.
Electricity demand is surging for the first time in a generation, and meeting it while cutting emissions is an engineering and permitting problem—not a culture war. We back a genuinely all-of-the-above build-out.
Reform nuclear permitting so we can actually build the safest carbon-free power we have, retrofit the 97% of American dams that generate no electricity, keep scaling solar, wind, and storage, and modernize the grid that ties it all together.
Neither party has education right. Republicans want to abandon the system; Democrats defend a status quo that’s failing. American students are falling behind globally, and better education is the single most powerful lever for raising incomes and lowering crime.
We need real structural reform: more classroom time, smarter teacher compensation, mandatory financial literacy so graduates understand money before it controls them, a renewed commitment to work ethic and personal accountability, and an urgent focus on AI readiness.
Climate change is real, and protecting the environment isn’t left or right—it’s common sense. Invest in solar, wind, and especially nuclear, where we need to reform a regulatory process that takes 15–20 years while France and South Korea build reactors on time and on budget.
Protect the Amazon, protect our public lands, and stop pretending we have to choose between a healthy economy and a healthy planet.
True limited government means keeping the state out of your personal life—your body, your family, your decisions. We extend that principle to businesses too: let adults make adult decisions, and let the free market do its job.
The 2nd Amendment stands. But nobody needs a full military armory in their basement. There’s a rational middle ground between “ban all guns” and “anything goes”—and the cities with the strictest gun control prove that bans alone don’t work either.
Enforce the laws we have, fix the background check system, and stop the posturing on both sides.
Reject the false choice between "defund" and "lock everyone up." Back and professionalize the police, hold the bad actors accountable, focus on the repeat violent offenders doing the real harm, and fix the addiction and mental-health failures that feed crime.
They signed a blank check to their country. Treat veteran suicide as the emergency it is, guarantee timely VA care with a real community option, finish ending veteran homelessness, and keep the promises we made—above politics.
America is strongest when our alliances are strong. We need to repair ties with NATO and the UN, stop the brinkmanship, and remember that diplomacy is how you prevent wars—not how you start them.
Innovation with guardrails: a real national data-privacy law that makes your data yours, protection for kids online, honest competition, and leading the world on AI without letting it run wild.
Independent institutions—the Fed, the FBI, the Bureau of Labor Statistics—are the backbone of democracy. We’ll protect them from political bullying and intimidation.
And we’re pushing for real term limits: 12 years in the House, 24 years in the Senate. Career politicians serve themselves, not you—and 70–80% of Americans agree it’s time for a change.
Private equity has devolved from capital provider to wealth extraction machine—buying companies with debt, stripping assets, and walking away rich while workers lose jobs and communities lose businesses.
We’ll protect multi-generation family businesses, promote Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), and stop letting PE strip-mine the middle class. Ownership should reward the people who build things.
After 2008, everyone agreed “shadow banking” was dangerous. So the industry hired better marketing people and rebranded as “private credit.” Same institutions, same risks, same lack of oversight—now a $2 trillion industry with your pension fund’s money in it.
Time for real transparency requirements, capital standards, and stress testing. If the Fed can stress-test JPMorgan, it can stress-test Apollo.
Both parties are dominated by extremists representing less than 10% on each side. The 80% in the middle deserve a party that takes good ideas from both sides and actually governs. That’s us—pragmatic, principled, and tired of the circus. We’re not here to split every difference down the center or be lukewarm about anything. We take the best ideas regardless of which side they come from, which means some of what you’ll read below sounds conservative, some sounds progressive—and that’s the whole point.
American politics has become a blood sport where the goal isn’t to govern—it’s to destroy the other side. We believe this is the single most destructive force in American politics today: the complete breakdown in the ability of leaders to treat each other like colleagues and work across the aisle.
The Common Sense Party will actively work with both Democrats and Republicans to pass legislation that makes sense. We’ll fight over ideas instead of people, seek bipartisan co-sponsors, and prove that governance doesn’t have to be a cage match. America’s problems are solvable—the only thing standing in the way is the refusal of its leaders to work together.