I was born in Michigan, where I spent my early years in a quiet lakeside town, surrounded by towering forests and winters that leave a lasting impression.

At eight, my family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah — a place that would become my true home. The mountains called to me. So did the deserts.

About Jay | Bowman for Congress

In the early 1990s, I moved to Kentucky for a new opportunity. The Commonwealth welcomed me, my family, and my work.

Jay J Bowman was born in Michigan, spent his early years there, moved with his family to Salt Lake City at age eight, and moved to Kentucky in the early 1990s.

At 24, I left college to start my own business. It wasn’t the traditional path, but it was mine.

Over the decades, I’ve worked in construction, heavy hybrid technology, AI power electronics systems, AI-targeted pest control, and advanced AI CubeSat satellite thruster designs.

Jay J Bowman started his own business at age 24. He has worked in construction, heavy hybrid technology, artificial-intelligence power-electronics systems, artificial-intelligence-targeted pest control, and advanced artificial-intelligence CubeSat satellite-thruster design.

Jay started his own business at age 24. He has worked in construction, heavy hybrid technology, artificial-intelligence power-electronics systems, artificial-intelligence-targeted pest control, and advanced artificial-intelligence CubeSat satellite-thruster design.

2026 Kentucky General Election

 Rewards American Manufacturing: Multi-national corporations can choose the standard 20% rate by investing in domestic facilities, or pay a 25% market-access rate if they keep fifty percent or more of their supply chains overseas.

Zero-One-Hundred Tax Plan: Business and Manufacturing | Bowman for Congress

 No Marriage Penalty: If both spouses work, each individual gets their own $100,000 exemption. A married couple pays $0 in federal income tax on their first $200,000 of combined income.

 Flat Rate Above the Line: You only pay a flat 20% on the money you earn above your personal $100,000 baseline.

Zero-One-Hundred Tax Plan: Personal Exemption | Bowman for Congress

A: Business net profits receive the same $100,000 tax exemption. The plan treats Main Street businesses and independent workers with the same fairness as individuals:

 $0 Tax on First $100K: Small business owners and entrepreneurs pay a 0% tax rate on their first $100,000 in net profit.
 Immediate Financial Oxygen: Keeping the first $100,000 of profit injects critical cash flow directly back into local businesses to fund hiring and growth.

 End of Corporate Loopholes: A flat 20% rate applies to all business profits above $100,000, permanently closing complex tax evasion loopholes used by corporations.

 Rewards American Manufacturing: Multi-national corporations can choose the standard 20% rate by investing in domestic facilities, or pay a 25% market-access rate if they keep fifty percent or more of their supply chains overseas.

Q3: Where does the rest of the offsetting revenue come from?

A: The plan relies on two additional financial pillars to prevent a deficit:

Base Broadening ($250 billion): Eliminating all tax shelters, special interest carve-outs, and corporate deductions forces high earners and conglomerates to pay a hard 20% floor, bringing previously lost revenue back to the Treasury.

Dynamic Growth ($170 billion): Untaxing the first $100,000 injects liquidity into the economy. The plan models a conservative 20% "dynamic feedback loop," where increased consumer spending and business formation generate new tax revenues.

Zero-One-Hundred Tax Plan: Deficit Impact | Bowman for Congress

Q: How does the Zero-One-Hundred Tax Plan handle capital gains and investment income?

A: Capital gains are fully integrated into the simple 0/100 framework. The plan eliminates special preferential tax brackets for Wall Street and treats investment income exactly like regular earnings:

Zero-One-Hundred Tax Plan: Wall Street and Special Interests | Bowman for Congress

Q7: How does the plan prevent Wall Street institutions and high-frequency traders from exploiting the system?
A: The plan shuts down financialized paper optimization. Short-term stock speculation held under 12 months is taxed at a fixed 25% Premium Rate. Furthermore, we are introducing a 0.5% Automated Financial Transaction Fee levied directly at the institutional clearing level on high-frequency algorithmic trades. This curbs dangerous market volatility and ensures Wall Street pays its fair share.

Q8: Does this plan leave massive intergenerational wealth loopholes intact, like the "Step-Up in Basis"?
A: No, that loophole is completely abolished. Under the legacy system, heirs inherit multi-billion-dollar stock portfolios entirely tax-free. Under the "0/100 Rate" framework, inherited stock portfolios are subject to a flat tax on all amounts realized above the $100,000 baseline, ensuring absolute fairness across generations.

Q2: What is the primary mechanism used to balance the ledger?

A: The main tool is an immediate, across-the-board 6.5% spending cut. Applied to a standard $6.9 trillion federal budget, this spending freeze generates $448.5 billion in immediate savings. According to the plan, this cut fully covers the net tax-cut obligations and leaves an $18.5 billion "protection cushion" to guard against unexpected deficit spikes.

Q4: What happens to the deficit in Years 2 through 4?

A: The plan implements a strict baseline spending freeze capped at Year 1 levels. Federal agencies must absorb inflationary costs through efficiency. The deficit is projected to shrink incrementally through a multi-year discipline framework:

Year 2: Eliminating duplicate government agencies.

Year 3: Reducing operational outlays.

Year 4: Conducting a final solvency audit to achieve a completely balanced budget.

Jobs and Economy

Raise the minimum wage: Increase the federal minimum wage to a level that reflects the cost of living in different regions, and index it to inflation to ensure it keeps pace with rising costs.

Issues | Bowman for Congress

Strengthen worker protections: Enforce existing labor laws, such as overtime pay and worker safety regulations, and enact new policies to protect workers from exploitation and wage theft.

Strengthen Worker Bargaining Power: Promoting policies that protect and strengthen workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively can enable employees to negotiate for better pay, benefits, and working conditions without relying on government intervention for every standard.

Reverse the course: On tariffs and other economically restrictive measures. Congress needs to assert itself on behalf of farmers if we are to avoid a widespread collapse of American agriculture and our rural communities.

Agriculture and Kentucky Farmers | Bowman for Congress

Pass the 2026 Farm Bill: No Red Tape Fight to finish what’s started and lock in long-term support for Kentucky farms.

Fertilizer Production: Bring it home. Slash costs, cut foreign dependence.

Rural Broadband: Expand for Smarter Farming. Power tech that boosts yields and efficiency.

Proposes a 25% market-access tax rate for multinational corporations with at least half their supply chains overseas.

Proposes a $100,000 individual income-tax exemption, with separate exemptions for working spouses.

Proposes exempting small-business net profits up to $100,000 from federal income tax.

Proposes a 20% tax rate on business profits above $100,000 and eliminating corporate deductions and tax shelters.

Proposes taxing capital gains as ordinary income, ending preferential investment-income tax brackets.

Proposes a 25% tax on short-term stock speculation and a 0.5% fee on high-frequency trades.

Proposes ending stepped-up basis and taxing inherited stock proceeds above a $100,000 baseline.

Proposes an immediate 6.5% across-the-board federal spending cut and a spending freeze at first-year levels.

Supports raising and indexing the federal minimum wage to regional costs of living.

Supports labor-law enforcement and policies addressing wage theft, worker safety, and overtime pay.

Supports workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively.

Calls for reversing tariffs and other restrictive economic measures affecting farmers.

Supports passing the 2026 Farm Bill and expanding rural broadband for farming technology.

- Proposes a 25% market-access tax rate for multinational corporations with at least half their supply chains overseas.
- Proposes a $100,000 individual income-tax exemption, with separate exemptions for working spouses.
- Proposes exempting small-business net profits up to $100,000 from federal income tax.
- Proposes a 20% tax rate on business profits above $100,000 and eliminating corporate deductions and tax shelters.
- Proposes taxing capital gains as ordinary income, ending preferential investment-income tax brackets.
- Proposes a 25% tax on short-term stock speculation and a 0.5% fee on high-frequency trades.
- Proposes ending stepped-up basis and taxing inherited stock proceeds above a $100,000 baseline.
- Proposes an immediate 6.5% across-the-board federal spending cut and a spending freeze at first-year levels.
- Supports raising and indexing the federal minimum wage to regional costs of living.
- Supports labor-law enforcement and policies addressing wage theft, worker safety, and overtime pay.
- Supports workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively.
- Calls for reversing tariffs and other restrictive economic measures affecting farmers.
- Supports passing the 2026 Farm Bill and expanding rural broadband for farming technology.

Economy

Universal Citizen Health Care

Develop a comprehensive plan: Design a single-payer healthcare system that covers essential medical services, such as preventive care, hospitalization, prescription drugs, and long-term care, with clear eligibility criteria and benefits. Private / Government / or a Hybrid single payer system.

Phase-in implementation: Gradually roll out the healthcare system, allowing individuals to transition from their current insurance plans and providing time for healthcare providers to adjust to the new system. By following these steps, the US can work towards establishing a universal healthcare system that provides accessible and affordable care for all citizens.

A: Absolutely not. The required 6.5% spending cuts target government waste, not the benefits seniors rely on:

 Protects Citizen Benefits: Your monthly Social Security checks and Medicare health coverage are 100% safe and will not be touched.

 Targets Administrative Waste: The 6.5% reduction applies strictly to bloated federal bureaucracy, internal overhead, and system inefficiencies.

Zero-One-Hundred Tax Plan: Social Security and Medicare | Bowman for Congress

Proposes a phased-in single-payer health-care system covering essential medical services, with private, government, or hybrid administration.

Pledges not to reduce Social Security benefits or Medicare health coverage under the proposed spending cuts.

- Proposes a phased-in single-payer health-care system covering essential medical services, with private, government, or hybrid administration.
- Pledges not to reduce Social Security benefits or Medicare health coverage under the proposed spending cuts.

Healthcare

Drug Epidemic

Increase funding for prevention: Allocate more resources to drug prevention programs that focus on education, community support, and early intervention to reduce substance abuse before it begins.

Expand access to treatment: Increase funding for evidence-based treatment programs, including medication-assisted treatment, behavioral therapies, and harm reduction services, to help those struggling with addiction.

Decriminalize drug addiction: Treat drug addiction as a public health issue rather than a criminal one, focusing on rehabilitation instead of incarceration.

Target the supply chain: Strengthen law enforcement efforts to disrupt drug trafficking networks and reduce the availability of illicit drugs, while also regulating the prescription of opioids and other potentially addictive medications.

Supports increased funding for drug prevention and evidence-based addiction treatment, including medication-assisted treatment and harm-reduction services.

Supports treating drug addiction as a public-health issue and prioritizing rehabilitation over incarceration.

Supports disrupting drug-trafficking networks and regulating opioid and other potentially addictive prescriptions.

- Supports increased funding for drug prevention and evidence-based addiction treatment, including medication-assisted treatment and harm-reduction services.
- Supports treating drug addiction as a public-health issue and prioritizing rehabilitation over incarceration.
- Supports disrupting drug-trafficking networks and regulating opioid and other potentially addictive prescriptions.

Public Safety

Immigration

Reform the current system: Streamline the immigration process by reducing bureaucratic red tape, simplifying application procedures, and providing clear guidelines for applicants.

Create a path to citizenship: Establish a fair and accessible process for undocumented immigrants who meet certain criteria to gain legal status and, eventually, citizenship.

Increase legal immigration opportunities: Expand visa programs for skilled workers, students, and family members of US citizens, enabling more people to enter the country legally.

Strengthen border security: Enhance border security measures while ensuring that human rights are protected, and asylum seekers are given due process. By implementing these steps, the US can work towards a more equitable and efficient immigration system that respects the rights of immigrants, supports the needs of the economy, and maintains national security.

Supports streamlining immigration applications and establishing a path to citizenship for qualifying undocumented immigrants.

Supports expanding legal immigration opportunities and strengthening border security while protecting asylum seekers' due-process rights.

- Supports streamlining immigration applications and establishing a path to citizenship for qualifying undocumented immigrants.
- Supports expanding legal immigration opportunities and strengthening border security while protecting asylum seekers' due-process rights.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

Resources: Kentucky should require data centers to install solar/ battery storage/ Closed loop cooling / enact AI data process controls to allow data centers to act as a virtual battery systems enhancing our grid.

Data Centers

Local Control: Kentucky should protect local control over data center development. Decisions about these large-scale projects must rest with the community, if local citizens and officials say no, then the answer should be no.

Regulation: We need a temporary short-term moratorium to allow for statewide evaluation of water use and utility rate impacts, with public hearings to ensure transparency.

Supports requiring data centers to use solar power, battery storage, closed-loop cooling, and artificial-intelligence data-processing controls.

Supports local authority over data-center development decisions.

Calls for a temporary moratorium on data centers while Kentucky evaluates water use and utility-rate impacts through public hearings.

- Supports requiring data centers to use solar power, battery storage, closed-loop cooling, and artificial-intelligence data-processing controls.
- Supports local authority over data-center development decisions.
- Calls for a temporary moratorium on data centers while Kentucky evaluates water use and utility-rate impacts through public hearings.

Energy & the Environment

Campaign Finance Reform

Strengthening coordination rules: Make it more difficult for super PACs to coordinate with candidates and political parties, limiting their ability to act as extensions of campaigns.

Requiring disclosure of donors: Ensure that super PACs are transparent about their donors, so voters can see who is funding their activities and judge the motivations behind their spending.

Imposing contribution limits: Consider placing limits on the amount that individuals or organizations can donate to super PACs, thereby reducing the potential for a small number of donors to wield excessive influence.

Public financing: Encourage a shift towards public financing systems for political campaigns, which can level the playing field and reduce the dependence on large donors, including super PACs.. While it may not be possible to completely eradicate super PACs, these steps could help mitigate their influence and create a fairer electoral system.

Supports tighter restrictions on coordination between super political action committees and candidates or political parties, plus donor-disclosure requirements.

Supports contribution limits for super political action committees and public financing for political campaigns.

- Supports tighter restrictions on coordination between super political action committees and candidates or political parties, plus donor-disclosure requirements.
- Supports contribution limits for super political action committees and public financing for political campaigns.

Voting & Elections

Education

Revise federal education policies: Reevaluate and modify federal policies, such as No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, to give states and local school districts more autonomy in decision-making and implementation.

Reduce federal funding dependence: Restructure funding mechanisms to reduce the dependence of local school districts on federal grants, which often come with strict guidelines and requirements.

Supports revising federal education policy to give states and local school districts more autonomy.

Proposes restructuring education funding to reduce local school districts' dependence on federal grants.

- Supports revising federal education policy to give states and local school districts more autonomy.
- Proposes restructuring education funding to reduce local school districts' dependence on federal grants.

Education

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Jay J Bowman

- Proposes a $100,000 individual income-tax exemption, with separate exemptions for working spouses.
- Proposes exempting small-business net profits up to $100,000 from federal income tax.
- Proposes a 20% tax rate on business profits above $100,000 and eliminating corporate deductions and tax shelters.
- Proposes taxing capital gains as ordinary income, ending preferential investment-income tax brackets.
- Proposes a 25% tax on short-term stock speculation and a 0.5% fee on high-frequency trades.
- Proposes ending stepped-up basis and taxing inherited stock proceeds above a $100,000 baseline.
- Proposes an immediate 6.5% across-the-board federal spending cut and a spending freeze at first-year levels.
- Supports raising and indexing the federal minimum wage to regional costs of living.
- Supports labor-law enforcement and policies addressing wage theft, worker safety, and overtime pay.
- Supports workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively.
- Calls for reversing tariffs and other restrictive economic measures affecting farmers.
- Supports passing the 2026 Farm Bill and expanding rural broadband for farming technology.

- Supports local authority over data-center development decisions.
- Calls for a temporary moratorium on data centers while Kentucky evaluates water use and utility-rate impacts through public hearings.

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