Democrats love America
In mid-July of 2021, the new Biden administration passed the American Rescue Plan, expanding tax credits for children, returning $15 billion to families of 60 million children. Every D.C. Republican voted “no.” For one year, it helped one in seven children living in poverty. Families did not stop working, as critics predicted. President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act of July 2025, passing without a single Democratic vote, gave $4.5 trillion in tax breaks to the wealthy and to corporations, while cutting more than $1 trillion from social welfare programs. I pass this on from Heather Cox Richardson’s “Letters from an American.”
In lead-up to Sept. 8 primary voting and then Nov. 3 voting, candidates mail to us, perhaps poll us, put TV ads before our eyes. Our priorities? Choose for the people we live among?
Ask candidates questions. What solutions do they offer for healthcare expansion rather than reduction? What solutions for childcare affordability? Can everyone have a fair shot at adequate housing? Our state fails in our taxation system with current state government (Republican dominated) shifting costs to property taxation as their “solution.” Costs are real. (An old bumper sticker now — “Think education is expensive? Try ignorance!”) We have, with voting, chance to correct wrongs. Don’t just dream for better — vote in caring Democrats. Love America. Party is not just a label.