Kincaid for Congress – Washington’s 1st District

No Federal Income Tax or Tax Filing for People Earning $61,000 or Less Summary This proposal would eliminate federal individual income tax liability for people earning $61,000 or less in total wage income, simplifying the tax system for tens of millions of working Americans while having minimal impact on federal revenue. In practical terms, anyone earning approximately $29.33 per hour or less would pay zero federal income tax and would no longer be required to file a tax return each year. Payroll taxes  Social Security and Medicare would still be deducted from paychecks as they are today. Beyond that, nothing. No additional federal tax withheld. No annual filing requirement. Rationale Based on IRS data from the past decade (2013–2022), households earning $61,000 or less make up approximately 50 to 60 percent of all U.S. tax filers. Yet this group contributes only 2 to 3 percent of all federal individual income tax revenue roughly $53 to $79 billion per year, depending o...

What happened to a 15-year-old Jewish girl at Nathan Hale High School in Seattle is not just deeply disturbing. It is a case study in how antisemitism spreads when institutions fail to confront it  and in how that failure, left unchecked, produces something genuinely terrifying. This is racism. This is hate. This is evil. And the response from the school system made it worse. I call upon the Mayor of Seattle, the Governor of Washington, the State Attorney General, and all city, state, and federal representatives to condemn this attack without hesitation. I urge them to fully investigate every student and staff member involved  and to offer their unwavering support to the victim and her family. The people of Seattle and the entire state of Washington should be horrified that this happened. We should be embarrassed. We should be ashamed. There is an infection of evil spreading in our country, and this case is one of the most chilling symptoms. I fear what the students ...

Shining a Light on Child Marriage in America "In the absence of light, darkness prevails." — Hellboy (2004) That line has stayed with me for over twenty years. When it comes to evil  to the kind of harm that flourishes precisely because most people do not know it is happening it is profoundly true. And few issues in America illustrate this more clearly than child marriage. Most Americans assume child marriage is something that happens in other countries. They have no idea it is happening here, legally, right now. In 2019, Brazil banned child marriage for those under 16. Colombia recently went further, setting 18 as the absolute minimum with no exceptions for pregnancy or parental consent. America has not kept pace. As of 2025, only about a dozen states have banned child marriage outright  defining 18 as the minimum age with no exceptions. In many other states, minors as young as 16, 15, or even 14 can still legally marry under certain circumstances, including parenta...

The Peace Corps was founded on one of America's most idealistic impulses the belief that young Americans, sent abroad in service, could help build a better world. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers have served with genuine dedication, courage, and sacrifice. That history deserves respect. But respect for the mission does not require silence about the institution's failures. And the failure we are talking about here is not a management problem or a budget shortfall. It is a decades long pattern of placing female volunteers in dangerous environments, failing to protect them from sexual assault, and then retaliating against or ignoring those who came forward. Over 350 rapes and attempted rapes of female Peace Corps volunteers have been reported since 2009 alone. That number almost certainly understates the true scope because of documented underreporting and retaliation against survivors. This is a moral crisis, not an administrative inconvenience and Congress has known ab...

A Real World Proposal for Universal Healthcare: A Phase by Phase Plan Before a tech company launches a new product, it runs a beta test. Before a car hits the road, it goes through years of prototyping and safety evaluation. But when it comes to healthcare reform, the political debate has offered Americans only two choices: leave a broken system untouched, or tear down the entire thing overnight. That is why every push for Medicare for All has failed  and it will keep failing. This is not a criticism of the goal. The goal is right. The problem has always been the strategy. Bernie Sanders and others have introduced Medicare for All legislation twelve times since 2003. Every single time, it has died in committee. It has never made it to a floor vote  not even when Democrats controlled the House, the Senate, and the White House simultaneously. That should tell us something important. The obstacle is not the idea. The obstacle is the approach. We need a fundamentally diffe...