Issues

DUARTE: believes government’s “job” is to secure our rights as outlined by our Founders.  Bigger government requires bigger taxes, waste and encroaches on our liberty. 

DUARTE: opposes bailouts, stimulus packages and the auto industry takeover. Common sense would tell us If YOUR government can’t run Social Security and the post office and most everything else why would we expect them to manage the auto industry? Just like the FEDs Nevada government has shown us how they manage our economy . . . They overspent it!

DUARTE: supports increased domestic energy, nuclear energy production and opposes Cap & Trade energy tax schemes. Energy taxes do nothing but drive UP the cost of energy. Renewables, as much as we would like to dream would WORK, simply are NOT cost competitive or productive. They need to remain in the research labs and we need to “build” low cost carbon free nuclear power stations.

DUARTE: stands for family values, truth, moral convictions and fiscal accountability. Many governmental services are provided to people who are not accountable for their own bad decisions. They cannot expect a bailout by taxpayers anymore than the banking system, or any other corporation.

DUARTE:  borders are established by countries for the purpose of protecting the sanctity of our land and its citizens. It is vital to the security of our country. Secure borders should be championed by all of our citizens.  I do not favor amnesty, it would be unfair to our citizens who attained their citizenship legally and an insult to them if we allowed amnesty. My statement is a method by which more responsibility should be put on naturalized Hispanic citizens to get involved in the legal process of citizenship of their illegal population by officially registering them as illegal aliens. A logistical solution will need extensive discussion but this would be my introductory proposal.

DUARTE: our Constitutional rights and the understanding of them, should be the “right of  passage” for any citizen serving an elected governmental position in our country.