This is an opinion column by Kaelan Dorr. She served as Chief Marketing Officer for President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, and prior to that served as a U.S. Treasury and White House official in the Trump Administration, and on the 2016 Trump Campaign.
Recently, Tim Walz said the quiet part out loud, declaring, “We can’t afford four more years of this.” As Walz and JD Vance face off on the debate stage, this is one thing they will both agree on.
As we grapple with skyrocketing inflation, depleting savings accounts, soaring interest rates, and wages unable to keep pace with the financial ruins the Biden-Harris agenda has left us in, Tim Walz is right- we cannot afford four more years of Democrat failed policies. We’ve heard time and time again that Kamala is from a middle-class family. However, she continues to be oblivious to the consequences of her failed economic policies that impact our families at the grocery store, gas stations, and electricity bills. It seems she’s the only self-identified ‘middle-class’ person who is immune to the inflation crisis.
Inflation has cost the average Wisconsin household nearly $27,000. Everything from energy to food has dramatically increased in price. Our electric bills are up 30%, and gas prices are up 46%. Putting food on the table is getting increasingly expensive as grocery prices have spiked 21% since Trump left office. Under Biden-Harris, nothing is immune to inflation, which is a hidden tax on every American. And for growing families, everyday baby essentials have skyrocketed as well, with a pack of diapers increased by 32% and baby food up by nearly 12%.
While we are paying more for just about everything, we are also making less. Due to inflation, families have had to take out additional lines of credit just to make ends meet. Now, nearly four years into the Biden-Harris failed economy, those credit cards are maxed out, with debt reaching a record high of $1.14 trillion. Due to Kamalanomics, one in five Americans’ credit cards are maxed out.
Wisconsinites are at their breaking point, and the 2024 Democrat ticket will only make these crises worse. A Harris-Walz agenda is a page out of the socialist playbook. Between their costly Soviet-style price controls and a tax on small businesses that is higher than the tax rate in China, their agenda puts America last.
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, “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 price controls and record-high tax rates will decimate what’s left of the American economy. But it’s not just our pocketbooks that are at risk. Walz, like Kamala, is a far-left radical socialist.
Together, they are the most liberal presidential ticket in history.
As he did as Minnesota Governor, he will make his Electric Vehicle mandate nationwide. At a time when families are struggling to make ends meet, Tim Walz will double down just like he did as Governor, requiring Americans to drive unaffordable electric cars that cost on average $56,575, which is nearly the average yearly salary in Wisconsin.
Tim Walz has a history of implementing unconstitutional mandates and socialist policies. Walz mandated lockdown long after Covid-19 ended, keeping children out of schools, and promoting the vaccine for children as young as six years old. During the lockdowns, Tim Walz even created a hotline to snitch on people who defied his ‘stay at home order,’ an authoritarian move that took officers from fighting crime to making criminals out of church services, and business owners who did not strictly follow masking rules- a power trip that turned Minnesota into North Korea.
Tim Walz has prioritized giving benefits to illegal immigrants over taking care of the crises in his state.
Walz is no less radical on immigration. He signed legislation to provide free taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal immigrants; he also celebrated issuing driver’s licenses and car registrations to over 81,000 illegal immigrants in his state. Going even further, Walz granted illegals access to free college tuition. It’s clear that he puts illegals above American citizens. In response to President Trump’s border wall, Tim Walz said he would invest in ladders so that unvetted illegal migrants could still come over.
Waltz and Harris’ radical defund the police ticket should concern every community, Walz let his own cities burn down and businesses get looted and violently destroyed while he did nothing, and then Kamala Harris helped raise money to bail the criminals out of jail. They make quite a team, and this is what would be heading to Wisconsin cities 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 J.D. Vance.
