Tony Strickland, SD-36 candidate, 2026 primary election questionnaire

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Instead, we need to find ways to loosen regulations to let businesses and building thrive.
50% : California puts enough regulations on our doctors and hospitals.
49% : To the extent new revenues would be helpful, they can't come in the form of new taxes.
44% : As touched on above, I believe cutting the gas tax would be a game-changer for California.
44% : The added benefits of cutting the gas tax would be that the costs of transporting goods would soon drop, too.
44% : I've authored a bill to eliminate the gas tax because California drivers deserve a break.
41% : Yet public concerns remain that there aren't enough regulations governing when or how AI should be used, and that the technology would replace jobs and leave too many Californians unemployed.
39% : Raising taxes to solve spending issues is a complete non-starter for me.
39% : I think we can reverse some of that, and I hope we start with cutting the gas tax.
36% : Years of bad decision-making in Sacramento have led California to impose more than a dollar a gallon in taxes and fees.

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