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Joe Cobb
Cobb, Joe (Libertarian)
Phone: (623) 363-6369
Email: joe@joecobb.com
4814 W State Ave., Glendale, AZ 85301
(mail: PO Box 1855, Glendale, AZ 85311)
Age: 66 (born:2/7/44, USMA West Point, NY)
Arizona since: 2006
Occupation: Retired in 2006; senior tax advisor, H&R Block, since 1998; instructor in tax law and regulations, H&R Block, since 2002; adjunct faculty instructor, economics, Orange Coast College (Costa Mesa, CA), Saddleback College (Mission Viejo, CA) and Concordia University (Irvine, CA), 2000-2006.
Marital: Divorced
Children: 1
Religious preference: Objectivism
Education: MBA, economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, 1997; A.B., economics, University of Chicago, 1966.
Political experience: Chief economist, U.S. Senate Republican Policy Cmte, 1991-1993; staff dir, Congressional Joint Economic Cmte, 1990-1991; sr. economist, Congressional Joint Economic Cmte, 1985-1990; legislative aide to Rep. Ron Paul, House of Representatives Banking Cmte, 1983-1985; economist, State Dept, Office of the U.S. Ambassador to the O.A.S., 1983; staff dir, The White House Office of Policy Information, 1982; chief budget and fiscal officer, Industrial Commission of Illinois, 1970-1977.
Memberships have included: Libertarian Party, Int’l Society for Individual Liberty, ACLU, Amnesty Int’l.
Interests: Philosophy, politics, economics, current events, reading, travel, teaching, shooting sports, and home renovation.
Issues
Political influence: Philosopher and economist, F.A. Hayek.
Top priority: Repeal of America’s restrictive quota system for legal immigration.
Respected opponent: Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) because of his forthright honesty and clear principles.
Wall St bailout: It was reprehensible and wrongly executed. It was not necessary, as the Federal Reserve has shown it had sufficient authority under previous law to provide liquidity to the economic system.
Stimulus Act: It has been a political boondoggle, bailing out government employees and unions, and it has yet to show any results to stimulate the private sector economy.
Health care overhaul: I strongly oppose the nationalization of health care, so-called ObamaCare, because it moves the providing of health services farther away from consumer choice, transparency in prices and costs, and imposes massive new regulations on an industry already forced to carry extremely heavy costs due to government regulations since the 1940s.