The Democrats' lengthy history of unaffordability

Democrats are having fun pretending that they're the party of affordability and looking out for "the little guy." It's time to throw that picture out the window. FOREVER! It's a myth. Let's start with Obamacare, aka the ACA, aka the Affordable Care Act. Within 2 years, people saw that the ACA had blown a super-sized hole in the deficit. The Cato Inatitute, hardly a right-wing think tank, published this article, which states "By spending $650 million on a no-bid contract, awarded to a firm with political connections to the White House, for the problem-plagued Obamacare website, the administration made clear that it cannot handle money. The website has processed only a quarter of the meager sign-ups, with the rest handled by 14 state-run exchanges that also have problems and cost taxpayers an additional $4.4 billion."

Has the ACA improved health insurance availability? Marginally, at best. Check this out:

Notice that President Obama said "There's nothing in the Affordable Care Act that would impact an employer-sponsored plan other than making sure that the employer-sponsored plan is providing a basic level of coverage." That's the ACA's built-in trap door. Suddenly, employer-sponsored plans failed because the ACA implemented lots of exotic new coverages.

Another example of Democrats being the party of unaffordability is the $1,900,000,000,000 American Rescue Plan, which directly triggered 9.1% hyperinflation and 'sticky' high prices. It isn't surprising that Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin and Amy Klobuchar voted for both budget-busting bills.

These same Democrats repeatedly voted against significant tax cuts, too. The next time tax cuts make life more expensive, it'll be the first time. These Democrats won't stop using the word affordability between today and Election Day so it's important for Republicans to remind voters a) of the Democrats' history of making life expensive and b) that Democrats have a lengthy history of creating high inflation. Think Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden.

Finally, the DFL made Minnesota more expensive by ignoring billions of dollars of Medicaid fraud.

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