Democrats are the best in the world at making terrible things sound great and positive things sound… devastating. Unfortunately for them, we as New Mexicans think for ourselves and use our own judgment to determine what’s best for our families. Despite what they tell us, New Mexicans know how damaging the decades of unchecked Democrat rule have been to our state. We also witness daily the negative impacts of the radical progressive agenda that has run our state into the ground with the worst education outcomes, worst public safety, and highest rates of reliance on government assistance programs in our country.
Once again, prominent Democrat leaders are misleading New Mexicans and insulting our intelligence.
This time, they are deceptively targeting House Resolution 1 (H.R. 1) a.k.a ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ as being “devastating.” Even more unhinged rhetoric about H.R. 1 came from Governor Lujan Grisham when she claimed the passage of this legislation would lead to people and children dying. This ridiculous political messaging begs the question: “What’s so devastating or potentially lethal in this bill?”
Apparently, Rep. Stansbury, Governor Lujan Grisham, and the rest of the progressives think the following reforms included in H.R. 1 are catastrophic:
- No tax on tips received by service industry workers (ie. servers, hairdressers, drivers)
- No tax on overtime pay earned by hard-working employees
- Tax breaks for Senior Citizens
- $1,000 savings accounts for ALL children born between 2024-2028
- Making Child Tax Credits permanent
- Elimination of proven waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars
- Increased funding for Border Security
- Increased funding for National Security
I don’t know about you, but this doesn’t sound ‘devastating,’ and it certainly doesn’t sound lethal to people and/or children. It sounds like real economic reform that empowers hard-working American families… something progressive Democrats promise to us during election campaigns but never deliver. To our Democrat leaders: Be responsible and report the facts. Fear-mongering New Mexicans insults our intelligence and causes division.
State Sen. Jim Townsend of Artesia represents District 34, previously serving in the New Mexico House of Representatives, including as the House Republican Leader.
Uh-huh. Silly question. So…does it put us further in debt? Or does that not really matter?
Senator Ron Johnson discusses that bill and the incredible debt future generations will be saddled with. I don’t think you are going to find a lot of people on this blog for whom that is a concern at all. That you would even raise this question obviously demonstrates that you are some sort of liberal who hates America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMk0orYKXQk&t=5519s
I wrote to Sansbury through her website and asked specifically for a list of things she said were “shameful” and, of course, never got a reply.
Impressive! No tax on overtime! No tax on tips! Fantastic! That really makes the unions look terrible — soaking up union dues and not representing their workers. Puts a big dent in the ol’ narrative about “the man”, “the company”, and “evil conservatives not caring about people”!
Why doesn’t she just say what she means — the bill “is not ideologically pure according to communofascist doctrine”? Quit beating around the bush with all the “racist, homophobic, xenophobic, transphobic, non-inclusive, child killing, etc.,” rhetoric – it’s more apparent than ever that this is just big cover.
The evidence of the theatrical hypocrisy from the tyrannical leftist queen?
1) She has turned NM into an abortion tourism state – dedicated to killing children.
2) She makes a wild, unfounded, extremist claim that a bill will kill children — and has the gall to to act as though she is insulted by this! What, she suddenly believes that killing children is bad?
If this bill truly killed children, the queen would support it. This is, in fact, how we know that the bill WON’T kill children.
I am with you, J, in both your statements!
Well said, Senator Townsend!