In April, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Camas, once again voted for Paul Ryan’s radical budget plan. This Republican fiscal policy turns Medicare over to insurance companies, who can increase rates and cut benefits that cost seniors thousands more each year. Herrera Beutler’s vote also cuts funding for education at all levels that help children, and stops investing in America’s future.
There is nothing in Ryan’s budget to create middle-class jobs and nothing to address the challenges of income inequality. It also cuts taxes for the rich and protects subsidies for big business, while raising taxes on working-class families. In short, Herrera Beutler voted to eliminate the federal budget deficit solely on the backs of America’s middle class, seniors and children.
I believe that wealthy Americans who have benefited massively over the last decade from the Bush tax cuts that reduced federal revenue and helped create our budget deficit should contribute to the solution.
Unlike Herrera Beutler’s voting record, I believe in a government that’s on the side of seniors, students, and middle-class families, and not just for more tax cuts for the wealthy.
