The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of California and asked of all candidates for this office.

See below for questions on Budget Crisis, Education, Water, Health Insurance

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Answer from John H. Webster:

What we have is a spending crisis. A predictable pit-fall in democracy is for everyone to vote themselves Free Benifits and make the other person pay in taxes. We need to restore an economic environment where each person pays his/her own way.

Welfare and safety-net must not be paid for through coercive taxes on others but through either voluntary contribution or as loans that are eventually paid back by the recipient.

Answer from Michael "Mike" Laursen:

The number one priority should be restoring control of public schools, including school funding, to the local level. The state educational bureaucracy is too remote and unaccountable.

Answer from John H. Webster:

There is an intrinsic conflict of interest in having the Government run the schools. It seeks to indoctronate the children into thinking that Morality is relative, that the highest moral authority is a Government elected by the People(i.e. itself), and not to question that authority. These ideas are all wrong.

To fix the problems with our public schools, those schools must start charging full tuition costs with zero tax subsidies so as to level the playing field with private schools to bring about true competition.

Perhaps accepting public subsidy for tuition would then require the student to pay back the loan as a 'tax' on future income after entering the job market. Students that pay their own way (or whose parents pay) would then be exempt from such a 'tax'.

Answer from John H. Webster:

The supply and consumpion of this important resource needs to be controled by the free market, not by Government bureaucrats or legislation. The price must be set by "supply and demand".

Answer from John H. Webster:

Again, welfare and safety-net must not be paid for through coercive taxes on others but through either voluntary contribution or as loans that are eventually paid back by the recipient. Payments of insurance premiums for people that can not afford them fall within this same category.

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