Todd Schaefer

Schaefer proposes voluntary Treasury-backed debit accounts for adults and businesses, paying Treasury-rate interest without customer fees, with savings partly directed to tax credits and debt reduction.

Reading note: These are campaign proposal terms and projections; their feasibility or projected savings have not been independently established.

Schaefer supports a single-payer healthcare system.

Schaefer proposes ending the depreciation tax treatment favoring single-family rental investments and, if legislation permits, restricting 30-year mortgages for rental investors.

Schaefer supports indexing the minimum wage to inflation.

Schaefer supports ranked-choice voting efforts and explicitly recognizes that implementation generally occurs at the state level.

Schaefer proposes reducing defense spending and reallocating resources to domestic healthcare and jobs.