Op-Ed: Rep. Richard Hudson: Americans agree that “we can’t afford four more years of this”
Inflation has cost your family over $1,100 more every month. Everything from energy to food has dramatically increased in price. Our electric bills are up 31 percent, and gas prices are up 38 percent. Putting food on the table is getting increasingly expensive as grocery prices have spiked 22 percent since Trump left office. Under Harris-Biden, nothing is immune to inflation, which is a hidden tax on every American. And for growing families, prices on everyday baby essentials have skyrocketed as well, with a pack of diapers costing 32 percent more and baby food up by nearly 12 percent.
While we are paying more for just about everything, you are also making less. Due to inflation, real wages have declined and families are too often turning to credit just to make ends meet. Now, after nearly four years of Kamala Harris, those credit cards are maxed out, with debt reaching a record high of $1.14 trillion.
Americans are at their breaking point, and a President Kamala Harris will only worsen this crisis. Between costly big government price controls and a tax on small businesses that is higher than the tax rate in Communist China, her agenda is a page straight out of the socialist playbook.
Don’t take my word for it; it was Tim Walz himself who once said, “one person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.” He also told business leaders that “we’re not taxing people — we’re taxing businesses.” Walz clearly doesn’t understand basic economics: when you tax a business, they pass that cost onto consumers.
These big government price controls and record-high tax rates will decimate what’s left of the American Dream. But it’s not just her failed economic policies that put families last. Together, they are the most liberal presidential ticket in history.
As Senator, Kamala Harris supported legislation that would mandate electric vehicles nationwide by 2040. During her 2020 presidential campaign, she promised to go a step further and even said “we will have basically zero-emission vehicles only. 100 percent.” At a time when families are struggling to make ends meet, Harris will double down on this authoritarian policy, forcing Americans into buying unaffordable, less reliable electric cars that cost on average $56,351, which is nearly the average yearly salary in the U.S.
Kamala Harris is no less radical on immigration. Harris wants to shut down immigration detention centers “on day one” and release thousands of illegal criminals into our communities. She supports decriminalizing illegal border crossings and backs mass amnesty for millions of illegals already in our country. Going even further, Harris supports taxpayer-funded healthcare benefits for illegal immigrants, including taxpayer-funded gender transition surgery. It’s clear that she puts illegals above American citizens at every turn.
Harris and Walz’s embrace of the radical “defund the police” movement should concern every community. Walz let his own cities burn and businesses get looted and violently destroyed, then Harris personally helped raise money to bail those criminals out of jail. She has even called for ending cash bail, which would release dangerous offenders out onto our streets every single day. Harris and Walz make quite a team, and this lawlessness would be heading to every American city if this weak, failed, and dangerously liberal ticket has their way.
Americans can’t afford to send the most radical socialist ticket in U.S. history to the White House. With days left until election day, we must vote for a strong economy, safety in our communities, and a secure border. To do that, we have to send tested and proven leaders to the White House — Donald J. Trump and JD Vance.
