- A hard truth about democrats and “affordability”
- Democrats want Higher taxes, and more taxes make life less affordable
- Republicans want lower and fewer taxes
- Taxes are a bigger expense than food, housing, and clothing
- Lower taxes mean more jobs and economic growth
- Democrats do not trust you to spend your money on what matters to them
Before you vote in November, and you will vote (please), you need to understand something. I know, I’ve articulated a long list of things Democrats would do or will do if they get back in control of anything at any level of government. More crime, less enforcement, no detention of foreign criminals, ending fraud investigations- it’s a long, lousy list. But this “point” should be of particular interest.
Democrats in the US House and Senate supported a 4 trillion-dollar tax hike on you. Not just rich people. Not just wealthy investors, job-creators, and one-percenters. You.
On taxes, yes, Republicans should accentuate that they passed important tax cuts last year on tips, Social Security, and more. But they should equally remind Americans that had it not been for them, Democrats would have allowed the largest tax hike in history. After all, the large bulk of last year’s Republican bill was stopping tax rates from returning to the Democrat levels that existed before the 2017 TCJA — and Democrats voted against Republicans’ 2021 tax cuts and for taking rates back to their pre-2017 levels.
The tax cuts that made Trump’s first economic revolution possible were going to expire at the end of 2025, and Democrats voted (wanted!) to let that happen. They chose to have the Federal Government seize an extra 4 trillion dollars from Americans.
Wait. There’s more!
And Democrats didn’t just vote to protect a multi-trillion-dollar tax hike; they voted against no taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime, and against lowering taxes on Social Security for some seniors.
They wanted taxes to go back up, a lot, and they didn’t want working people and seniors to enjoy some additional tax relief.
Every Democrat in office, everywhere, wants that, so the lesson applies up and down the ballot.
You can’t take any conversation on affordability seriously until you get the feds out of the way and out of your pocket.
- No tax increases for families under $400,000 and no tax increases for small businesses.
- Making permanent the “small business deduction, enabling job creation and spurring local economic activity.”
- “Full expensing for domestic R&D to encourage domestic innovation.”
- “Full expensing for new capital investments, like machinery and equipment, to boost domestic production.”
- “Restor[ing] interest deductibility to a globally competitive standard to help finance critical domestic investments.”
- “Full expensing for new factories and factory improvements to accelerate domestic manufacturing.”
- “Permanently renew[ing] and enhanc[ing] the Opportunity Zone program, driving $100+ billion of investment to rural and distressed communities.”
Did you know that axes, the ones Democrats want more and more of, cost you more than food, clothing, and housing?
Shouldn’t every conversation about costs and affordability begin with taxes, especially when an estimated trillion a year are stolen through fraud? How much more affordable would anything be if we decided how to spend any of that instead of the government losing it to criminals?
A jobs program isn’t you giving our money to NGOs and crooks who then support you to protect their grift.
The best jobs program is the one created by private investors answering the market’s call. They take the risk and reap the reward if they see it right. This creates taxable jobs and commerce instead of taxing existing jobs and commerce so the government can launder it “through the system” before (politically) creating winners or losers.
Democrats opposed tax cuts, free market job creation, and more freedom from an increasingly oppressive big government.
But with less government interference, you invite more private investment, research, development, innovation, and more free capital to find uses in the day-to-day economy. The lower the taxes, the more money consumers have to spend locally or even donate to causes they can both believe in and hold accountable.
Democrats not only wanted the government to steal more from you; they rejected new tax cuts that would directly aid middle-and-lower-income people. And they’d do it again.
Higher taxes give them power and allow them to shuffle trillions to favored NGOs after the high cost of collections, grants, and oversight mechanisms that have been increasingly politicized, a problem resolved by closing the federal laundromats and letting the people who earned the money decide where it should go.
Don’t forget, when Trump started closing their laundromats, they lost their minds, and this is key. Before you vote in November, understand this foundational fact. No matter how much noise they make, this is the only thing that matters. Democrats do not trust you to spend your money on what matters to them, so they seek public office to use the power of government force to take it from you.
The less of that there is, the more control you have over what matters to you. And while we still have a long way to go, Republicans will keep giving you more of that power back, and democrats will keep trying to take more of it away.
Vote wisely, my friends.
