Every West Virginia Citizen deserves a fair chance to succeed. Our nation’s success is built on the FOUNDING PRINCIPLES of unlimited opportunity, quality education, commitment to hard work, and the FREEDOM to pursue our dreams. S. Marshall Wilson fights each and every day to ensure that the community is advancing towards meeting these FOUNDING PRINCIPLES.
Read on to learn about the issues at hand, and what is being done to combat them.
Economy & Jobs
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Audit the Executive Branch
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Welcome outside manufacturing firms who respect West Virginia’s natural resources.
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Removing taxes and other barriers will assist innovating West Virginians in starting and growing businesses, which will then offer economic opportunity to other West Virginians. See “Taxes” below.
“The people of WV are incredible, and we have all the natural resources you could possibly want in a nation not to mention a state. What do we lack? Why are we ineffectual? It’s because we have a government that does not function according to the Constitution, it does not respect your private property rights, or your individual natural rights of any sort. That’s why we are failing. So, it’s not just the governor. What needs to happen is we need a governor who will come in and audit the entire executive branch of the government and force it to comply with the Constitution; then, the economy will grow. Businesses will flourish. People will invest and as the economy grows, we will have the money to fix our roads, to improve our schools, and other people will be drawn to our state for those reasons.”
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Taxes
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A sales tax, a consumption tax, is the only valid and moral tax
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Eliminate personal property tax, income tax, and the business inventory tax
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Increases to automobile fees and gas tax should be reversed
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Eliminate inspection stickers and tolls on the roads
“I would love to act like Jim Justice does and issue an edict that changes all of this, but
that’s unconstitutional, it’s unacceptable, so each of those changes will require legislation which means that I will publish my preferences to the House of Delegates and the Senate and ask them to please cooperate with me, and then it will be upon you the people to encourage your Legislators to agree.”
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Education
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Streamline the administration and bureaucracy.
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Give local people control
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Parents need to be directly involved in their children’s education
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Support our teachers and pay them as professionals.
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Parents have the right to direct their child’s education
“The West Virginia Constitution very clearly states that the students of this state are guaranteed a free and efficient education. It’s a Constitutional requirement. We need to do it. It is already free to the user because the taxpayers are paying for it. But is it efficient? Is it effective? It can’t be efficient if it’s not effective. We need to ensure that our education system is effective. We need to look into all the multitudinous ways in which we can provide the opportunity for an education to students and incorporate all of them in our system.”
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Emergency Preparedness
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An All Hazards Operations Plan (AHOP) should be in place, exercised, and practiced.
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An Executive Branch is responsible for serving the people as outlined in the AHOP.
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A Governor has no authority over private citizens or entities to tell them what to do.
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The legislature is the only body in the state that has the authority to appropriate funds.
“Was it COVID, or was it the state’s government’s response to COVID that destroyed your businesses, that destroyed what you were going to leave to your children? The businesses you built up and the investments that you made. It was the reaction of Governor Justice.”
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Infrastructure
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Focus should be on local roads that are used daily by West Virginians
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Open up the communications marketplace to bring in new technology
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Agriculture is an important component of the economy, and security
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Protect our water while developing our industry
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Develop better water treatment facilities in small towns
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MARSHALL'S RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS FROM WV CITIZENS
First Responders
What is your relationship with the various police agencies?
Policing is a critical core competency of the government. The problems with our policing agencies stem from the laws that our government makes then requires them to enforce. They should be required and empowered to enforce only laws that protect the Natural Rights of individual citizens.
Current Events
Are you for or against mandatory vaccinations for COVID-19?
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Are you for or against mandatory testing for COVID-19?
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Medical testing is a form of medical treatment. The government has no authority to compel you to take any medical treatment. As a corollary, the government has no authority to shut down private entities.
I am curious to hear your stance on the groups forming around our nation such as ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter.
The government exists to uphold your individual Natural Rights to include private property.
The First Amendment to the US Constitution protects citizens’ right to peaceably assemble.
Riots are not peaceable assemblies, and destruction of private property is an infringement of the rights of the property owners that must be controlled and punished.
What are you going to do about the homeless vets?
What are you thoughts on the COVID-19 color coded maps being used by the current WV Governor?
Education
Where do you stand on a parent's right to direct a child's education? Where do you stand on inclusion of special needs children in the general education classroom? In your opinion, what is the difference in the following terms: Autistic child Child with autism
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The difference in the terms is that one emphasizes the child while the other emphasizes the issue.
What is your stance on indoctrination of our children in schools?
Election
Won't voting for you just result in a Democrat winning the election?
Because the Party leadership endorsed Justice, you now have him as your candidate.
Since the primary, Justice has destroyed businesses and lives with his unconstitutional dictates thereby alienating vast swaths of his base.
A pseudo-Republican is actually immensely worse than a declared Democrat because the Republican Party now owns Justice’s every word and action.
In addition to that (I witnessed this as a member of the House.), the Republican Caucus will resist a Democrat intensely, but will kowtow to a pseudo-Republican resulting in a greater destruction of all Republicans claim to hold dear with the added travesty of assisting the “Republican” Governor to accomplish this destruction.
The People are disgusted with the Parties.
I am not a Republican.
Which party did you originally belong to? Democratic or Republican?
I registered as a Republican when I turned 18 because of their message of Liberty, small government, and lower taxes. I became an Independent in December of 2019 after I had spent almost a year as a member of the Berkeley County Republican Executive Committee attempting to address with the WVGOP Chair and State Executive Committee their many failures to uphold WVGOP stated principles and to pursue WVGOP stated goals. It became clear to me that I must become independent in order to pursue Constitutional principles and to uphold the individual Natural Rights of *all* WV citizens.
Government
Where do you stand on signing a bill, if passed, to allow the legalization of Marijuana?
If Legislature passes it, I'll sign it.
Economy
Where do you stand on right to work laws?
Are you for or against Prevailing Wages?
I oppose "Prevailing Wage" because it increases the costs of taxpayer-funded projects.
Personal Property Tax
What is your stance on eliminating personal property tax? Also your stance on lowering/eliminating income tax and looking at other alternative options for state revenue?
PEIA
Will you fix PEIA for state and county employees? I pay more and seem to be covered for less.
OPIOID Crisis
What about the opiod epidemic?
First of all, stop putting people in jail for having a problem. Secondly, the people who sell these poisons to children need to be tried for attempted murder. This is attempted murder - you’ve got a poison, you know a child is going to ingest it, you sell it to the child, and you lie about the impact that poison will have on that child’s life. That person should go to jail for attempted murder.