Democrats are fighting for Montana's working families
Montana Democrats have spent the last two years offering ideas that invest in our state’s families, communities, and economy. We have solutions to invest in affordable housing, expand access to child care, train the workers that small businesses need, protect our privacy online, and let ag producers protect themselves against out-of-state corporations.
Despite our efforts to reach across the aisle, Republicans have ignored these solutions, focusing instead on magnifying D.C., scare tactics that have nothing to do with Montana, Montanans or what Montana Democrats actually support. It’s an old playbook that they dust off every two years. You could set your clock to it.
They hope that while you’re working to pay rent or find child care, you won’t notice that they’re pushing to raise your taxes. Last year, Republicans voted to give massive tax giveaways to the ultra rich–many of whom are moving here from out of state–while tucking in a tax hike on over 85,000 working Montanans. And it won’t stop there, with their bosses in D.C., pledging to raise your taxes even further if they take control of Congress–it’s one of the central planks in their reelection platform.
The rest of that platform is built on pushing the buttons of whatever topic is front and center in the culture war today. They think that if they make you angry, you won’t notice how hollow their rhetoric is, how devoid of solutions their party is, and how hard they are working to undermine the values that Montanans rely on to strengthen our families and build our communities.
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Actually, for the past ten years, we have seen an in-migration of monied individuals and corporate entities raising the cost of living for the residents already here without improving their ability to earn more.
They insist on paying nothing to the service and hospitality/tourism industry workers while going all out to attract more and more tourists who overwhelm our infrastructure. And then they complain that nobody wants to work, this in the middle of long term and short term housing shortage for workers.
