Tony Zirkle for Congress

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Post-Tribune Q&As

Office Sought: U.S. House, IN 2nd District

Name: Tony Zirkle

Party: Republican

Political Experience: 1988-89 Indiana State President, Future Business

Leaders of America
1992 Class President, U.S. Naval Academy
2000 IN House of Representatives, Dist. 8, Republican Candidate
2002 St. Joseph Co. Prosecutor Republican Primary Candidate

Occupation: Attorney, Law Office of Tony Zirkle

Question #1 - What is the most pressing need facing your constituents? Northwest Indiana has lost $35,000 manufacturing jobs. I am proposing a Civil Service Academy, to be placed in LaPorte County, that will provide permanent job stimulus to this region and so that the Chicago-Detroit drug trade corridor can be displaced in the long run. This academy will serve as a technological research and development center that will create fuel-efficient vehicles so that businesses can become more profitable and better positioned to hire.

Some civil servants will become the next generation of Homeland Security agents. Others will join an army of medical doctors that will serve in our criminal justice system to treat the root causes of crime such as mental illness, so that we can reverse the tax hiking trend of ever increasing incarceration rates that have tripled since 1975. Other graduates will emigrate overseas as medical ambassadors of good will to diversity other cultures and to reduce ignorance and hatred of us.

Question #2 - What is the most important change you’d like to bring about? How will you do this?

More can always be done to improve national security. For airline security, we can use our technology to enable planes to be “re-hijacked” by our own military planes through remote control from our E/A-6B Prowlers so that we don’t have to shoot citizens out of the sky.

For long term security, we must end the porn-prostitution cults that are destroying our economy through examples of irresponsible behavior that have led to a 50% STD rate by age 25 and 100,000 child porn Web sites. We will then have a population emigration boom that can be used to diversify other cultures with our citizens that will increase diversity overseas, and reduce ignorance, prejudice and hatred of U.S. Americans.

We also need to expand the definition of “tax”. Health care costs, fuel-inefficient vehicles and porn-prostitution are all taxes that drain the efficiency of our economy. I will seek reforms in each area.

Question #3 - What distinguishes you from your opponent?

Mr. Chocola has placed a top priority on making tax cuts “permanent” for multi-billionaires where wealthy investors, with a 15% capital gains rate and who don’t work, will pay lower tax rates than workers. Such a policy is economically and historically unsound. I am for the middle class and will support both business and labor. I agree with President George H. W. Bush that trickle-down, supply-side economic theory is voodoo and that tax cuts for billionaires do not benefit the middle class.

We should focus on three more effective ways to cut taxes by lowering health care costs, creating fuel-efficient vehicles, and by ending porn-prostitution, which is the root of much crime that leads to incarceration taxes because it alienates men and women from each other and destroys marriages which civilize men and protect women and children. I am the only candidate with credible plans to solve these issues.

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