Stewart Parks, the pardoned January 6 defendant and Republican candidate in the special election for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, said the first piece of legislation he plans on introducing if elected to Congress would be to lower the capital gains tax.
Parks, explaining how the resounding concern among voters in the 7th District is the nation’s economy, said he would work in D.C. to “roll back oppressive taxes,” including the capital gains tax rates.
“It’s not what people make that matters – it’s what they take home, what they keep. I want to roll back oppressive taxes…I think the capital gains tax is way too high. I want to see people, if they have property, inherit property, whatever have you. I don’t want to see them pay a 36 percent capital gains tax or any type of tax. I want people to keep what they make,” Parks said on Friday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
“For this bill, it would lower the tax. I’d like to see it zero…it needs to be at least below 10 percent. Again, I want people to keep what they make,” he added.
Further, Parks said he would also work in Congress to pass a bill outlawing abortions.
“The time has come. We need a federal ban on abortion…These blue states are now making a lot of money because of tourism abortions, if you will, and what I mean by that is, Tennessee is really strict. So if anybody wants to kill a baby, they can just fly to the nearest state and have it done there. So the abortions are still taking place, just not in Tennessee. They’re going to other places, so we have to stop it,” Parks said.
“We have to be real. We love life. We’re the Republican Party. The entire world is coming to Tennessee because of our way of life, and that’s what we do. We put up strict safeguards to preserve life and make sure babies don’t get murdered. Everybody’s come to Tennessee, they want our way of life. We need to expand, and that’s what America’s all about: Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. These babies that are in the line to be born, they’re being deprived of that. We have to get all these other states in line, on board with preserving life. That’s why I’m really strong on that,” he added.
Parks also said he would vote in Congress to support and fund immigration enforcement efforts, complete the construction of the border wall, fully equip the military, and make sure farmers in District 7 and across the nation “prosper.”
Acknowledging he is one of eight Republicans seeking the party’s nomination in the race for the 7th District, Parks said his record as a political prisoner and continued loyalty to President Donald Trump and the America First agenda makes him unique from the field of candidates.
“I, firsthand, have been through the fire and I still kept my Republican, conservative values. I didn’t bad mouth Trump or blame anybody. I fought the swamp. These other [candidates]…we don’t know what they would do in the face of being threatened to go to prison and lose everything,” Parks said.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
