Jeremy D. Adams, Dare County, is now a Candidate for NC House, District 6 | Eastern North Carolina Now

Press Release: For immediate publication.

    Jeremy D. Adams, combat veteran, economist, and life-long conservative Republican filed on Friday 2/24 for the North Carolina House District 6.

    Adams served with the 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team headquarted in Clinton, NC on active duty from 2008-2010 conducting combat operations in the Doura Province of southeast Baghdad, Iraq. He is a 16 year veteran of the armed forces which included service with the 504th & 505th Parachute Infantry Regiments in the 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, NC.

    After returning home to Nags Head from Iraq, Adams has been studying Film & Television Production at Regent University in Virginia Beach for the past two years. He is also a fellow in an economics public policy fellowship at Regent.

    Adams is one of the youngest active members of the Dare County GOP and is currently the Vice Chairman of the Nags Head GOP Precinct. He is 35 years old and is running for the general assembly to help encourage an awakening in young people to participate in politics on a broader scale. "Previous generations have borrowed for themselves and left us with the bill. The current ruling generations are continuing that trend at an ever alarmingly increasing rate. I am running to stop the mess before it gets worse and attempt to clean up some of the mess before my children come along and ask me why I didn't do anything about it when I had the power to do so. I'm trying to get government out of our lives and wallets!"

    He is intending to engage young people through street teams and webisodes (short online documentaries) about economics and individual liberty. "Economics is purposely made more difficult so that people don't understand it. But economics is not hard, you don't need a degree to understand it and I intend to present these mini-documentaries in such an engaging way that anyone can understand them. Every economic public policy has direct results and massive secondary results. By looking at the big picture, we can see exactly why we have gotten into the position we have. Inflation, for instance, is theft of the value of your money simply, but it is not directly in your face, so few people pay much mind. Until they are filling up at the gas station and want to know why the cost of gas is skyrocketing. It isn't that gas is going up, it is that the dollar is going down in value."

    Adams believes that the Republican party sometimes gets off track from its constructionist constitutionalist roots like co-founder Frederick Douglass and company envisioned. "I'd like to see the Republican party be the party of republicans in the tradition of Thomas Jefferson and a majority of the founders. Republicanism is to respect the form of government that establishes the rule of law to protect individual liberty. Sometimes modern Republicans talk a great deal about individual liberty, but they don't do very much about it. I'd like to see that change by getting young people into the party and turn back the clock to the Republican party of Martin Luther King, Jr, Rosa Parks and Robert Taft. Democracy is tyranny of the majority; whatever is popular is what is right, even if that means the minority suffer for it. The only real freedom and prosperity is found in a republican form of government where everyone is free to pursue their own choices and I'd like to see the Republican party reflect those principles all the time, not just some of the time."

    Adams follows the Austrian economic school of thought which teaches that no person or small group of persons can have all the expert knowledge about what and how much production should exist and that knowledge is divided among all people. "Only an individual can determine what they desire most and are willing to purchase for what price. The Austrian school is based on Voluntarism. Whenever coercion comes into effect, the net result is always less production. But when people vote with their feet, or money as the case may be, the maximum amount of production can be achieved for the best price, the consumer always wins and standards of living raise for everyone."

    Adams believes that North Carolina could become an economic powerhouse if oppressive taxes were reduced, corresponding with less government spending. "If the money is kept in the hands of the private citizens, then production will increase, costs will go down and the standard of living of everyone will increase." He supports getting rid of the income tax and all corporate taxes. "Without corporate taxes, where costs are just passed on to consumers anyway, then we'll have goods reduced in cost and that will encourage businesses to come and set up shop in North Carolina. The current tax system discourages that behavior in North Carolina. This past legislature did a tremendous job coming up with a balanced budget. Now it is time to take it further, keep a balanced budget and reduce both taxes and spending and that will boost our economy and allow the private sector to create more jobs and production."

    Adams believes that Nullification and Interposition are the tools that North Carolina should employ to stave off the Federal Government's encroachment on our beaches, attacks on our commercial fisherman, devaluing of our money through inflation, and assaults on our civil liberties like the NDAA and Agenda 21.

    Adams is an Eagle Scout, licensed North Carolina Real Estate Broker, danced semi-professional ballet with the Wilmington Ballet Company, worked on a honey bee farm as a teenager and has an 11 year old son named Noah. Shawn Daniels of Southern Shores is Adams' campaign treasurer. The campaign website is Adams4NCHouse.com.

    Thank you.

Respectfully,

    Jeremy D. Adams
         Candidate for North Carolina House of Representatives, District 6 - Beaufort, Dare, Hyde & Washington           Counties
           adams4nchouse.com    phone: (252) 564-9568