Arlington, as well as Virginia, tax policies are relatively favorable in the DMV. I would like to freeze business tax rates to give businesses stability and predictability. I would also like to lower the meals tax that was recently increased to help local business and help reduce the cost of a drinks with friends or a dinner out with family. 

This is the most urgent issue that inflates the cost of everything in our community from groceries to childcare. Years of half measures have resulted in a critical housing shortage. We need to increase dense housing developments along our transit corridors by reducing zoning restrictions, streamlining permit and design approvals, and eliminate parking minimums. Rent, childcare, a beer at the local bar, groceries, even your energy and internet bills could stabilize with significant amounts of new, dense housing. And we must lead on this at the local level, if not Richmond will continue to step in and override local decision-making. 

I do not have (and have not needed) a car in the five years that I have lived in Arlington. I thank Arlington County and WMATA's previous leaders everyday for that privilege. Public transportation is a key driver of opportunity and economic development. We need to leverage the Metro system by focusing as much development around the Metro stations as possible. We can build new housing without adding to traffic when residents have good public transit within walking distance. The one area where Arlington needs to improve is connecting North and South Arlington. WMATA, Metro and buses, does a good job connecting Arlington East to West, but the ART bus system needs to be optimized better for intra-Arlington transit. 

Ban as much technology as possible in schools. We allowed the largest unapproved social experiment in history over the last decade to be performed on our children; we let tech companies test their algorithms on the children of America with impunity and get rich doing it. Now we are seeing the result: increased anxiety, ADD, depression, suicides, anorexia, gambling additions, the list goes on and on. Robust legislation to regulate these companies must come from states of the Federal government, but until that happens, it is our responsibility to protect the children of Arlington as best we can. Norway is already leading in this endeavor.