Candidate for 3rd Congressional District - Jeffrey J. Smith

E-mail Address: JeffreyJSmith@webtv.net
Web Site Address: www.jeffreysmithforcongress.com

Jeffrey Smith graduated from Clarion High School in 1972 and attended Vennard College in University Park, Iowa and Iowa Central Community College in Eagle Grove, Iowa before moving to Des Moines in 1977. He has been married to his wife, Cynthia, for 27 years and has two grown daughters, Bethany and Sarah, and a grandson, Owen, 6 months old.

Jeff worked various jobs over the years, including assistant manager of a Super Valu grocery store, and in the mail room of a national credit card operation. It was while he worked at the credit card center that he began to have the desire to own his own business. Seeing the Internet as a way to own a business with a large potential and very low overhead, in 1999 he started Extremely Biz-E, an e-commerce company that contracts with over 80 partner store sites and does business in 6 states.

Since having a run-in with the IRS in the late 80's, Jeff began to get politically active. He worked with the Republican Party until he realized that what they stood for verbally, and what they did literally, were two totally different things. "The Republicans and Democrats arepractically identical as far as expanding big government, and taxing people to death to pay for it," said Jeff.

He was introduced to the Libertarian Party by a fellow jogger at the local YMCA several years ago. After asking a lot of questions and doing a lot of research, he found that the party was exactly what he was looking for. He says he has found that the Libertarians are the only people that politically practice what they preach.

Jeff is running for U.S. House of Representatives, Iowa District 3, for two reasons. The first reason is that the IRS and the federal tax code are totally out of control. "I will work to rein in the federal government to its constitutional limits by eliminating unnecessary programs, privatizing the rest, and work relentlessly to eliminate wasteful spending. I believe this will enable us to abolish the IRS and eliminate the federal income tax," stated Jeff.

The second reason he is running is because of the proposed Medicare prescription drug benefit for senior citizens. "Our incumbent Congressman wants to throw more taxpayer money at the problem and add more government control. I want to get to the root of the problem by proposing legislation that will repeal the ban on imported prescription drugs, and let the free enterprise system work. When pharmaceutical companies abroad start importing drugs to the United States that are less than half the cost of the prescription drugs that are being manufactured in the United States, the pharmaceutical companies here will be forced to lower their costs to remain competitive. Getting the government totally out of health care is what is ultimately going to lower the costs of prescription drugs," Jeff said.