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Utah 2026 Candidate Filings
Candidate: Michael R. Stoddard
Office: U.S. House, District 3
Party: Libertarian
Status: Election Candidate
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"I've spent my career as a C.P.A. auditing how government actually spends your money — and years since studying why honest money matters. Washington is quietly taxing working families through inflation and debt. I'm running to stop it."
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Born in Missoula, Montana, I came to Utah for school, graduated from Brigham Young University Cum Laude, and stayed to build a career and raise five kids in Utah County.
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Born in Missoula, Montana, I came to Utah for school, graduated from Brigham Young University Cum Laude, and stayed to build a career and raise five kids in Utah County.
"I've spent my career as a C.P.A. auditing how government actually spends your money — and years since studying why honest money matters. Washington is quietly taxing working families through inflation and debt. I'm running to stop it."
Source-published biography
I’m a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Financial Planner. Alongside small-business and personal tax and financial planning, I’ve spent decades inside government books. I managed the Wasatch County audit for several years and served as the partner in charge of the Midway audit, as well as the audits of Provo City, the Provo School District, Lindon City, and Community Action in Provo. I’ve seen, line by line, exactly how government spends your money.
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I’m a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Financial Planner. Alongside small-business and personal tax and financial planning, I’ve spent decades inside government books. I managed the Wasatch County audit for several years and served as the partner in charge of the Midway audit, as well as the audits of Provo City, the Provo School District, Lindon City, and Community Action in Provo. I’ve seen, line by line, exactly how government spends your money.
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Government ethics, accountability, and elections
Candidate position
Washington forces every public company, grant-funded nonprofit, and state that touches federal dollars to submit to an independent outside audit — yet exempts itself, and hasn't earned a clean audit opinion in 28 years. I'll make the government live by its own rule.
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Washington forces every public company, grant-funded nonprofit, and state that touches federal dollars to submit to an independent outside audit — yet exempts itself, and hasn't earned a clean audit opinion in 28 years. I'll make the government live by its own rule.
Economy, jobs, taxes, and affordability
Candidate position
Inflation is a hidden tax no one voted for — the dollar has lost more than 96% of its value since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913. I'll work to end the federal monopoly on money and repeal the legal-tender coercion that forces Americans to save in a currency designed to lose value.
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Inflation is a hidden tax no one voted for — the dollar has lost more than 96% of its value since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913. I'll work to end the federal monopoly on money and repeal the legal-tender coercion that forces Americans to save in a currency designed to lose value.
National security, foreign policy, and veterans
Candidate position
The constitutional militia — the people's own retained foundation, standing beneath the ballot, the courts, and the jury — has been hollowed to a name. The National Guard is not the militia, and the 2025–26 federalized-Guard deployments turned a century-old structural problem into a live constitutional crisis. I'll work to restore the design the Framers actually wrote.
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The constitutional militia — the people's own retained foundation, standing beneath the ballot, the courts, and the jury — has been hollowed to a name. The National Guard is not the militia, and the 2025–26 federalized-Guard deployments turned a century-old structural problem into a live constitutional crisis. I'll work to restore the design the Framers actually wrote.
Health care
Candidate position
What Washington sells you as “health insurance” isn’t insurance at all — it’s prepaid medical care run through the most expensive billing department ever assembled, and chained to your job by a tax trick from 1943. I’ll unchain coverage from employment, re-legalize real catastrophic insurance for the rare disaster, restore honest up-front prices, and fund the genuinely uninsurable in the daylight instead of hiding them inside everyone’s premium.
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What Washington sells you as “health insurance” isn’t insurance at all — it’s prepaid medical care run through the most expensive billing department ever assembled, and chained to your job by a tax trick from 1943. I’ll unchain coverage from employment, re-legalize real catastrophic insurance for the rare disaster, restore honest up-front prices, and fund the genuinely uninsurable in the daylight instead of hiding them inside everyone’s premium.
Government ethics, accountability, and elections
Candidate position
Require an annual independent external audit by international accounting firms — a three-firm group audit (one lead + two component firms).
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Require an annual independent external audit by international accounting firms — a three-firm group audit (one lead + two component firms).
National security, foreign policy, and veterans
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Restore the constitutional partition: bar federalized National Guard units from domestic law-enforcement roles except under the narrow terms of the Insurrection Act.
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Restore the constitutional partition: bar federalized National Guard units from domestic law-enforcement roles except under the narrow terms of the Insurrection Act.
Economy, jobs, taxes, and affordability
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Create the Make Americans Wealthy Again account: after-tax dollars, up to $10,000 a year per person (indexed from enactment), open to every American from birth — no income tests, no penalties, no required distributions.
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Create the Make Americans Wealthy Again account: after-tax dollars, up to $10,000 a year per person (indexed from enactment), open to every American from birth — no income tests, no penalties, no required distributions.
Economy, jobs, taxes, and affordability
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Require the President, Treasury Secretary, and OMB Director to personally certify the financial statements each year — the Sarbanes-Oxley standard every Fortune 500 CEO already meets.
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Require the President, Treasury Secretary, and OMB Director to personally certify the financial statements each year — the Sarbanes-Oxley standard every Fortune 500 CEO already meets.
Economy, jobs, taxes, and affordability
Candidate position
Repeal the legal-tender coercion (31 U.S.C. § 5103) and end the capital-gains penalty on gold and silver, so honest money can compete on a level field.
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Repeal the legal-tender coercion (31 U.S.C. § 5103) and end the capital-gains penalty on gold and silver, so honest money can compete on a level field.
Gun policy and firearms
Candidate position
Protect the armed body of the people from both federal overreach and state-level disarmament — the right to keep and bear arms and the duty of common defense are two faces of one design.
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Protect the armed body of the people from both federal overreach and state-level disarmament — the right to keep and bear arms and the duty of common defense are two faces of one design.
Economy, jobs, taxes, and affordability
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Restore the pre-1982 first-in, first-out ordering for annuity withdrawals, repealing the gains-first rule that puts the taxman ahead of the saver's own principal.
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Restore the pre-1982 first-in, first-out ordering for annuity withdrawals, repealing the gains-first rule that puts the taxman ahead of the saver's own principal.
Health care
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Unchain your coverage from your job — end the 1943 tax trick by equalizing the tax treatment of health dollars, so the cash you spend on your own plan, your own doctor, and your own Health Savings Account is as tax-free as your employer's premium.
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Unchain your coverage from your job — end the 1943 tax trick by equalizing the tax treatment of health dollars, so the cash you spend on your own plan, your own doctor, and your own Health Savings Account is as tax-free as your employer's premium.
Economy, jobs, taxes, and affordability
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Restore honest banking — true-safekeeping law for demand deposits and the right of full-reserve banks to exist and compete.
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Restore honest banking — true-safekeeping law for demand deposits and the right of full-reserve banks to exist and compete.
Energy, water, public lands, and environment
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Re-legalize real insurance: cheap, lean, catastrophic coverage for the rare disaster, plus the guaranteed-renewable and health-status plans that protect people before they get sick — sold across state lines, so 900 little fiefdoms have to compete for you.
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Re-legalize real insurance: cheap, lean, catastrophic coverage for the rare disaster, plus the guaranteed-renewable and health-status plans that protect people before they get sick — sold across state lines, so 900 little fiefdoms have to compete for you.
Health care
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Restore the price tag — plain, honest, up-front pricing, with Direct Primary Care and cash medicine unleashed so a patient can read the price before he buys.
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Restore the price tag — plain, honest, up-front pricing, with Direct Primary Care and cash medicine unleashed so a patient can read the price before he buys.
Government ethics, accountability, and elections
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Make mercy honest — fund the care of the genuinely uninsurable directly and visibly, not buried inside everyone's premium where no one can see the subsidy, vote on it, or cap it.
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Make mercy honest — fund the care of the genuinely uninsurable directly and visibly, not buried inside everyone's premium where no one can see the subsidy, vote on it, or cap it.
Government ethics, accountability, and elections
Candidate position
Mandate five-year rotation of the lead firm to prevent auditor capture.
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Mandate five-year rotation of the lead firm to prevent auditor capture.
Economy, jobs, taxes, and affordability
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Washington debases the dollar, then taxes the inflation it manufactured as if it were profit — and since 1982 it has taxed your “gains” before returning a dime of your own principal. These are two takings, and one principle ends them both: tax profit, never debasement. I'll work to index savings and investment to the dollar's decline, count the saver's own money first, and give every family a simple after-tax account with no warden at the door.
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Washington debases the dollar, then taxes the inflation it manufactured as if it were profit — and since 1982 it has taxed your “gains” before returning a dime of your own principal. These are two takings, and one principle ends them both: tax profit, never debasement. I'll work to index savings and investment to the dollar's decline, count the saver's own money first, and give every family a simple after-tax account with no warden at the door.
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