From: Beth Hardesty
Nashville
Just two weeks before the most critical election in our lifetime, Republicans put it all out there. Last year, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell passed a tax plan that disproportionately benefited the top 1 percent of earners and profitable corporations. To pay for it, McConnell and Washington Republicans put it on a credit card. Well, McConnell’s bill is coming due.
In just one year, the federal deficit ballooned to $779 billion, and is expected to hit $1 trillion in 2019.
How do McConnell and Washington Republicans want to pay for their reckless spending? By gutting our Social Security and Medicare.
I have worked hard, I have paid my taxes and banked on Social Security and Medicare being there for me and my family when the time came. It’s the height of hypocrisy for McConnell and Republicans to run up the federal deficit by showering tax breaks on profitable corporations and the well-connected and then sticking working Hoosiers like me with the bill. I held up my end of the deal, now D.C. Republicans are trying to change the terms.
The difference in this election couldn’t be clearer. U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly voted against McConnell’s tax cut because he believed we shouldn’t saddle our children and grandchildren with debt to pay for tax cuts for corporations and top earners. He’s fought to protect Social Security and Medicare for Hoosiers who have paid into the system their entire working lives. Sen. Donnelly has our backs while Republicans like McConnell and Mike Braun want to steal what we rightfully earned.
Hoosiers shouldn’t sit idle. They should make their voices heard and get out and vote. Fortunately in Indiana, we have the opportunity to vote early. It’s simple, it quick, it’s one’s right and so I urge all Hoosiers to please vote. One’s vote matters!
Vote now from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Bartholomew County Courthouse. There are three additional satellite locations for early voting beginning Oct. 29:
- Donner Center, back entrance 19th and Sycamore streets, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Nov. 2, and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 3.
- German American Bank, west side location, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Nov. 2, and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 3.
- Flintwood Wesleyan Church, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Nov. 2 and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 3.
