3. Reducing the federal deficit calls for a two-phase attack—increasing revenues and cutting expenditures.  At the moment my focus is on increasing revenues. More specifically, I’m currently campaigning (and am the only Republican challenger in the USA so doing) to allow all of the Bush-Obama temporary tax cuts to expire this coming year-end.  Once that’s done (and that for me is the easy part) the more difficult task of my sifting through thousands of budget expenditures will begin.

4. I’m a keep-and-fix guy which means Obamacare, in my expert opinion [as a practicing actuary], is a mess but it should be amended and not repealed outright. And here’s my proposed replacement:

For people ages 65 and over: Give them traditional Medicare as it currently exists and insist that there be no benefit cutbacks.

For people under age 65: Give everyone of them and/or their employers the option to buy into ages 65 and over traditional medicare; sit back and watch the stampede as small businesses and local governments rush to sign up their employees.

For low income people at all ages: Give them traditional Medicaid (called MassHealth in Massachusetts) as a supplement.

5. I support the DREAM Act.

U.S. Congressman Edward J. Markey did not submit answers to The Crimson.