Kouhei Atashi is a Republican politician from Michigan, serving as a member of the House of Representatives. He had served as a member of the Supreme Court of the United States as an Associate Justice, however resigned to return back to congress. He most recently served as Attorney General under the Kai Santiago administration as well as the CivilTheFox administration before that, Secretary of Treasury under the Bazyli admission, Secretary of the Interior under the supercid87 administration and had also served as Secretary of Commerce under the Stone administration.
Atashi currently serves as the Treasurer of the GOP, as well as the co-founder and Vice Chair of the Tea Party Caucus, and had most previously served as the Chair of the Liberty Caucus. He is currently the Republican House Whip, Fund Drive Manager, War Department member and recently a member of the Republican National Committee (representing the Tea Party Caucus) until its dissolution. He had most recently lead the Department of War' Senate sector, however was relocated to the House Sector when the body was resolved in replacement for the National Campaign Directorate, as Chavez replaced Blake Stone as director. He previously was elected and served as the Party's Chairman for a duration of time. He was also the Director of the Council of War, appointed by Chairman CivilTheFox and Vice Chairman Bazyli. Atashi has also previously served as the Party's Deputy War Director and War Department House Strategist, and has also previously served as the House GOP whip and the Senate Majority and Minority Leader.
Atashi has also previously held Vice Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, Advisor and other positions in the GOP, most of which he was elected for or appointed under the Moogs era of the GOP. Atashi also drafted the party's constitution during when he was serving as Secretary under the aforementioned era. He also served as RNC President, being elected with the most votes, for a period of time until the RNC was abolished. He had also been elected and served as President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and has been on the RNC on multiple occasions.
Atashi had also been the long time Chair of the North Carolinian Republican Party, before moving the New Jersey and being appointed Vice Chair of State GOP there for a short term, later then moving to Michigan. He was also the Chair of the RMP caucus for a long time. He currently serves as the Liberty Caucus Vice Chair, and was it's Treasurer before on multiple terms.
During the time Atashi was the Deputy Director and House officer of the War Department (under Director Bazyli Wojcik), before the Department was dissolved in replacement for a new Council of War, the GOP managed to maintain a majority in The House of Representatives consistently, and also achieved a close second lead in the Senate. Atashi then joined the newly formed Council of War in the House Department, particularly working on the House election database and planning, and was later appointed as its Director after former Director, Ben H. Phillips resigned. Only after one term after the Council was founded, the work of the CoW saw the achievement of the GOP gaining majority in both chambers of congress by a considerable amount. He resigned around late October 2022.
Around early April 2022, Atashi and his political allies had swarmed the Republican Mainstreet Partnership and used their overwhelming numbers to elect themselves into power, with the premise that James Ernest (Chair of the caucus at the time) was funding the Democrat Presidential Nominee. Many have critiqued the process as a coup d'etat. He then served as the Chair of the RMP Caucus for multiple months, before resigning to uphold the Chairman position of the party. Atashi was also the Founder and Chair of the Fiscal Conservative Caucus, until before custom caucuses were removed from the game.
Atashi is a committed politician and has sponsored many long-winded bills in Congress.
A few include (current iteration):
- Healthcare price transparency Act (passed)
- Failed sponsored bills (current iteration)
- Employment freedom for wage growth Act (failed)
- Pragmatic bipartisan healthcare reform (vetoed)
- Noncompete ban for competition and wages (vetoed)
- Free trade for jobs and lower prices Act (failed)
- Ease of supply for demand and growth (failed)
- School choice for competition Act (failed)
- Land value tax for affordable housing (failed)
(Previous iteration):
- The Healthcare price transparency Act (passed)
- The Pragmatic market healthcare freedom Act (passed)
- The Free trade for jobs and lower prices Act (passed)
- The Ease of supply for demand and growth Act (passed)
- The Income tax cuts for economic development Act (passed)
- The Meritocracy in education Act (passed)
- The School choice for competition Act (passed)
- The Employment freedom for wage growth Act (presidential veto)
- The Negotiation over regulation Act (failed)
Upon many others in previous iterations.
Electoral positions[]
| Electoral position | Political Party | |
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| Currently | Representative for Michigan | Republican |
| Previously | Representative for New Jersey | Republican |
| Previously | Senator for New Jersey | Republican |
| Previously | Representative for North Carolina | Republican |
| Previously | Senator Class III for North Carolina | Republican |
| Previously | Senator Class II For North Carolina | Republican |
| Previously | Senator Class I for South Carolina | Republican |
| Previously | Representative for Alabama | America First |
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Political Positions[]
Atashi's political stances and voting record displayed on an axis.
Atashi has self-identified on multiple occasions as a "Conservative-Liberal" or "libertarian leaning conservative" who advocates for economic liberalization/fiscally conservative policies while maintaining personal social conservative stances with emphasis on liberty and individualism on the premise of government. He has many times stated his advocation for the conservation and his support of Classical Liberal values. He has been often described as a "Fiscal-Conservative" and represents the more far right/libertarian politicians on economic policy in the Republican Party, while being described as moderately conservative or center-right on social issues.
Economy[]
Kouhei Atashi advocates for free markets, pragmatic laissez-faire ideas and the elimination of tariffs, believing the government should have only minimal and pragmatic intervention within the economy. He opposes large government spending and is in support of reducing the United States' debt ceiling. Atashi used to advocate for flat taxation of 13%, and believes that taxes should not be abolished, but rather kept at a low rate, and believes that low tax burden strengthens an economy. He has now since then supported a tax framework with income tax brackets ranging from 0-22%. Atashi believes that tax cuts can increase tax revenue, believing that it eases the supply of supply, and boosts the supply chain, increasing profits and wages, thus allowing the government to collect taxes from a higher source, despite collecting at a lower rate. He sites the 2017 tax cuts, research by think tanks such as the Cato Institute, and the roaring 20s' tax revenue soar due to tax cuts by the Coolidge administration in the 1920s.
Atashi is a staunch opponent to cooperate subsidization/welfare claiming it imbalances competition and creates unfairness in the market, proposing that a market economy is only strong when companies compete solely based on their competency against each other, and where their only source of revenue is the consumer dollar, not government. He believes that most monopolies in markets are caused by government intervention or preferential treatment, and has used Hong Kong as a case study to back up this view point on many occasions, describing it as a "corporatocracy pretending to be a free market from its former glory days". Though he believes in deregulation of markets, he believes that the government should strongly enforce the rules of a free market in order to maintain healthy competition. He is a strong advocate for government transparency, balances and checks against government, and though leaning libertarian, has stated that a society is more healthy with a transparent, corruptionless flawed democracy than a free but easily corruptible democracy, while praising the Singaporean government's transparency efforts to back this view, on many occasions.
He is an advocate for the abolishment of the minimum wage and argues that negotiation between workers, private unions (which he argues should be allowed to form under a free market), and employers is a better alternative. Atashi proposes that the laissez-faire approach to unions and wages is the best form of increasing wages for workers, believing that the government shouldn't limit the growth of unions (stating it as the private gathering of people), nor should it side or restrict both employees and workers. He usually cites countries such as Norway, Sweden and Denmark to back this opinion, and uses Singapore and Switzerland as examples of how competitive markets can self regulate wages without the need of government minimum wage, through the use of competition to compel employees. He also believes that minimum wage is a burden to income development, and a tool for employers to utilize to underpay during times of economic boom. He is known for comparing his favored economic policies to Singapore on often occasions. On July 25th, his sponsored bill the "(S.145) Negotiation over regulation Act", was passed and signed, in which put into effect saw the removing of a federal minimum wage.
Atash is also a strong supporter of supply-side economics and is thoroughly against the theory behind Keynesian economics. He believes that the market can only naturally boost supply and the supply chain, in which demand will follow after it. He believes Keynesian economics is flawed, in the sense where demand can only be artificially stimulated, not naturally, by the government, and subsequently increases government spending and tax hikes, and even so a tricky task to do. He has often referred to Keynesian economics as an outdated model only useful during post world war situations. Being a supporter of supply-side economics, he believes an economy is stronger when the flow of supply is larger, thus proposes tax cuts and deregulation in order to boost supply.
Atashi is an outspoken anti-communist, and has slandered and accused political opponents of being communists on several occasions, most notably Ernest during inner party turmoil throughout March 2022.
Foreign policy[]
Atashi is in favor for free trade policy globally and supports the elimination of tariffs. He has criticized many politicians in his party who support protectionist views and views protectionism as an idea against free trade which only deters domestic economic progress, and prevents the decreasing of consumer good prices, and prevents the transition of jobs from lower paying manufacturing jobs to higher paying white collar, office, service and research based occupation. On May 10th 2022, his sponsored bill "(S.49) Free trade for economic development Act" was signed into law, which saw legislating a radical change of the tariff rate from 13.78% to 0.5%. In another iteration on January 24th 2023, Atashi's sponsored bill "(H.R.146) Free trade for jobs and lower prices Act" was passed into law which saw the reduction of the average tariff rate to 0.25%.
Atashi supports and advocates for more bilateral and unilateral agreements with countries around the globe, opining that implementing such policies is beneficiary to all countries partaking, and proposes that cooperation around the globe will allow for the easing of global supply chains, trade routes, and peace and stability.
Though in support of allies agreeing to station military bases on each other's soil, Atashi is skeptic of military intervention and is in favor for more negotiation, however would support the increase of military activity when it comes to if certain countries, such as Russia or China, threatening peace and stability within regions of American and western interests, or if it concerns the stability of economic cooperative countries in Asia such as Taiwan, Singapore, Japan or South Korea, or when all other options are deemed unfavorable. On foreign policy, he has often been described as a moderate neoconservative or neoliberal.
Atashi is in support of globalization but not globalism, claiming that countries should voluntarily cooperate with each other, rather than be political coerced or forced into situations they do not see fit. Another reason he is skeptical of globalism, is its multicultural agenda.
Healthcare[]
Atashi is an outspoken individual against the ACA, single payer healthcare, UBI and welfare. He believes that healthcare should be mostly privatized and left to the market, with the government only regulating the prevention of monopolies, enforcing price transparency and providing a pragmatic but minimal and nessacary welfare net to subsidize healthcare for those who really cannot pay. Atashi believes that consumerization and competition in healthcare will spur innovation and incentives to lower prices. He has also praised Singapore's MediSave program, in which he describes as "forced individualism". In this system, the government makes employees delegate a fraction of their income into a specified bank account, which grows in interest every year, that can only be unlocked for the individual's healthcare spending. He has praised this system for helping guarantee an individual's healthcare, as he argues that one of the reasons as to why people may not afford healthcare is due to irresponsible saving. He advocates that one of the first steps to solving healthcare is to have individuals responsibly dedicate savings for healthcare. He has compared his ideal healthcare framework to Singapore or Switzerland. On Ocotber 9th 2022, the bill "(H.R.159) Pragmatic market healthcare freedom Act", sponsored by Atashi, was signed and passed into law. This saw the abolishing and replacing of the ACA in replacement for a framework consisting of MediSave and a last resort MediFund, which saw the creation of a mandatory individual savings account for employees medical care, as well as the deregulation of the private insurance industry.
Social Structure[]
Atashi can be described as a politician who is "socially conservative but civically liberal/libertarian leaning", or moderately conservative or center-right in social politics. He claims that he personally holds socially conservative views on many issues, but leans libertarian or civically liberal when it comes to the role of government. Being a strong advocate for meritocracy, Atashi supports the idea that hierarchies are a biological construct. He supports the Classical Liberalist movement and it's support for the hierarchy of competence, and believes that all individuals should have the right to participate in the meritocracy, and that everybody is entitled to the same unalienable rights. He strongly advocates that the hierarchy of competence and the meritocracy allows hard working individuals to achieve happiness without being held back by the incompetence of others. Atashi overall supports equality over equity, and has described equity as an immoral Neo-Marxist characteristic, and believes that equity and meritocracy cannot coexist. He is a strong advocate for the nuclear family structure and believes most societal problems stems down to single motherhood and birth into unmarried parenthood. Despite his party's common viewpoint, Atashi is for abortion within the first trimester, but is an outspoken figure against treating it as a contraceptive, describing it as a fallback/last resort. He has also criticized and compared supporters of late stage abortion as being as irrational as those who support a ban on abortion. Atashi is also in favor of a strong but moderate and responsible moral order in which he preaches should start from within family.
Race and culture[]
Atashi does not believe in the concept of race, arguing for that it is a factor which does not differentiate humans, and thus should not be a defining factor for treatment or equality. He instead argues that culture, cultural identity and nationality is the are the main defining characteristics in differentiating groups of people. He believes that some cultures are superior than others, but that all races are equal to one another. Atashi strongly opposes affirmative action and believes that it is discriminatory towards Asians, particularly Asian students. He believes that affirmative action only leads groups to grow dependent on the welfare state, fall into the poverty trap, create a victim mentality and limit individuals from success. He often sites his country of origin, Malaysia, as a case study to discuss the effects and consequences of affirmative action. Though he believes that racism can exist within individuals' personal opinions, he has often commented that the United States has become one of the most meritocratic places in the world systematically, and strongly disputes CRT and the rhetoric that America is still systematically racist. On November 24th 2021, he sponsored the controversial "Stop indoctrinating our children Act" to the Senate, which passed and saw the banning of teaching Critical Race Theory in K-12 education and below. Furthermore, on July 19th 2022, his sponsored bill "Meritocracy in education Act" passed with overwhelming support in both chambers of congress was signed and enacted. This saw the elimination of race based quota admissions in education and the elimination of affirmative action within the educational sector.
Education[]
Atashi prioritizes education as one of the most important factors in society, stating often that education is the key to success for children and their futures. Atashi supports school choice, and supports abolishing district school zoning, arguing that school choice creates competition between schools, which only incentivizes better education and service. On October 1st, 2022, his sponsored bill "(H.R.52) School choice for better education", was signed into law, which saw the abolishment of school district zoning in replacement for a choice based framework. Atashi is in support of government issued scholarships and charter school vouchers to high achieving students, and believes that it creates and incentive for students to reach higher.
Gun Control[]
Atashi supports background checks and believes that it prevents guns getting into the hands of criminals. He believes law-abiding gun owners should have the right to unfair advantage against criminals. Despite this, he still takes a pro second-amendment stance and supports simplifying the gun buying process for law abiding citizens. He is also against the use of permits of licensing as he believes that "high regulations and gun control only hardens the gun buying process for law abiding citizens, while doing nothing to solve crime as criminals get their guns illegally". He advocates that the solution to resolving America's gun crime crisis is through the use of stronger police, tough on crime policies and elimination of criminal sympathy and the soft on crime ideal.
LGBTQ, same-sex marriage and sex change[]
Though personally thinking homosexuality is sinful, Atashi values liberty and does not think that it is his, or the government's, position to restrict the act of same sex marriage or being homosexual. He believes that same-sex marriage should be legal, but as a separate definition from marriage. However he believes that individuals below 21 years old should not be eligible for sex change as he argues that individuals then are not mature enough to make life changing decisions. Atashi is also against the treatment of sex change operations as healthcare, and argues that tax payers should not pay for someone's cosmetic change. He also believes that sex and gender are unchangeable biological constructs. Atashi is also strongly against the involvement of LGBTQ material in public schools, and believes that the subject of matter is a parental concern, rather than school/government. He is also an outspoken opponent of transgenderism in sports. Despite not being against the legalization of same marriage, Atashi is against same-sex adoption and has sponsored bills to limit and ban adoption for same-sex couples, however none of the bills have proved to pass.
Environment[]
Atashi does not deny climate change statistics but does not support the mainstream method when combatting it. He thinks that the United States should not sacrifice itself in the economic race when other contenders contribute significantly. He is a strong advocate for nuclear energy, and does not support heavy regulations, as he believes that it will deter innovation needed to create effective and efficient clean alternatives. Atashi believes that spreading awareness within the free market is more effective in changing the global energy framework rather than means of regulation, and will stand by incentives to boost clean energy development. On multiple occasions, Atashi has denounced government subsidization and has praised a carbon tax. He believes that subsidization will cause an imbalance in market competition due to government funding/taking sides, and has accused subsidization as something which can lead to monopolization, which will only hinder the incentive to innovate and develop. He argues that a carbon tax will incentivize a change in market demand, which will boost competition, development and innovation, without the risk of harming competition or creating monopolies.
Notable affairs, disputes and controversies[]
Censure of Senator Catra[]
On early August of 2022, Atashi sponsored the bill: "(S.65) Censure Pedophile Congressmembers Act 1" which saw a release of an official censure from Congress directed at Senator Catra, under the fallacy of the accused Senator's positive views on Child P*rnography from statements they released on a previous bill sponsored by Republican colleague Gumble Bobuckson; "(S.44) End Perversion Act". The censure bill passed with overwhelming supports from both the Senate (26 - 3) and House (68 - 20) and was signed on August 4th 2022. The censure resulted in a large backlash and anger from Senator Catra, who accused Atashi of being transphobic, despite Atashi stating multiple times that the censure was not at all related, or accounted for Senator Catra's gender identity.
Lincoln Holdings Limited[]
Initiated by former Republican colleague, ally and friend, Glenn Kho, Kouhei Atashi co-sponsored the Lincoln Holdings Ltd. project, which would oversee the creation of a private-state ran investment company. The goal of the project was to create an additional revenue source for the government, in order to balance out additional tax cut plans the duo and their party were planning to propose. The company was to operate like a private firm, independently ran from the government and would pay taxes. The project itself was heavily influenced and modeled after Singapore's Termasek Investment firm. The project was sponsored back when Glenn Kho was part of the Republican Party, but failed to gain approval from congress. Despite Glenn Kho switching to the Forward Party, the two still plan to work together and will try and propose the project again. The company was named after the country's 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, in his honor.
The Grand Coalition[]
Alongside fellow party members, Master Chief, CivilTheFox and Bazyli Wójcik, Kouhei Atashi was one of the first Republican politicians who worked with the Forward Party, America First Party and the Constitution Party in order to orchestrate and create a unity coalition against the Democratic Socialists. For a brief period, the stability of the coalition was challenged due to a feud between the GOP with then AFP Chairman James Ernest, which also saw a temporary removal of AFP delegates and members from the coalition. However the AFP was soon reintegrated into the coalition due to AFP Party members, disapproving Ernest's actions, who subsequently cooperated and negotiated with the GOP and FWD party.
Removal from House Whip, dispute and alliance with the RMP[]
On December 17th 2022, Atashi was ousted as Whip of House Republicans by House Republican Mainstreet Partnership Caucus members who consisted the majority of Republicans in house due to ideological and policy disputes (listed above in this page). He would be replaced by Arsene Kaviori, who would also be replaced by Reines El-Melloi Archisorte a day later. Atashi had whipped according to preserving the constitution with stances leaning towards libertarian economic policies and moderately conservative with libertarian leaning emphasis on social issues with the importance of individualism and individual rights. The RMP on the other hand, favored moderate to center-left economic policies, and more often authoritarian socially conservative stances, at times even sponsoring and supporting bills which threatened the constitution. One such example was when RMP members lobbied for banning flag burning, in which Atashi took a critical stance to, citing it as a impeachment on the First Amendment, heavily criticizing RMP members who supported the bill and describing them as having "woke rhetoric", insulting them with critical adjectives such as "politicians who value feelings over rights, facts and the constitution". Atashi and the RMP would go on to disagree on a wide range of issues, such as abolishing the minimum wage, lowering cooperate tax and enacting balanced budgeting, all of which he supported and where the RMP opposed. Reines El Melloi would go on to serve as House Republican Whip until late January, when he stepped down. Despite this affair, Atashi and the RMP Caucus would go on to fix relations, becoming allies once again, with Atashi being one of the members of the Republican leadership circle, alongside figures like Blake Stone, to support long time RMP figure Desantis for presidential nomination across multiple primaries. Currently, many of Atashi's allies and friends within the GOP, outside of the Liberty Caucus, reside within the RMP Caucus. Such include the notable GOP House Whip Reines El-Melloi, GOP House Leader Lord El-Melloi, President Ron Desantis, Vice Chair emeritus Ben H. Phillips and Ex GOP Chair Bazyli Wojcik.
Nomination for SCOTUS and departure[]
Atashi was one of CivilTheFox's two nominations, alongside Bazyli Wojcik, for Supreme Court Of The United States, with the latter being appointed chief justice. Atashi had envisioned to rule on the SCOTUS based on the Constitution. However, he resigned and departed early due to desires to return to congress, preferring to work on legislation and policies rather than judicial ruling.
Foundation of the Tea Party Caucus[]
With the reintroduction of custom caucuses in Iteration VII, Atashi co-founded the Tea Party Caucus alongside Blake Stone, with the former serving as Vice Chair, and the latter serving as Chair. The caucus has since become one of the main revenue funders for the Republican Party, while pushing forward a mix of conservative and libertarian activism, such as small and limited government, freer markets, fiscal conservatism and fiscal responsibility and the reduction of the national debt through means of curtailing government spending.
Media and images[]
  Kouhei Atashi alongside fellow Republicans Ron Desantis and Reines El Melloi. |
  Kouhei Atashi's playing card made by BFTH community member Kedah (Ron Desantis) | |
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