In light of the Iowa Senate Republicans passing a $1.2 billion dollar per year spending plan that disproportionately benefits the wealthy and corporations, while declining to tell the people of Iowa how they would pay for it, Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price released the following statement:
“The Senate Republican’s tax free-for-all is an insult to working Iowa. It’s a $1.2 billion dollar yearly giveaway to wealthy special interests and corporations on the backs of working Iowans in the middle of a budget crisis caused by their own mismanagement.
We already know what happens next: the Reynolds Budget Crisis gets worse, more cuts to education, more cuts to mental health services and Medicaid, more cuts to our justice system, and none of the promised economic growth.
The Senate Republicans do not serve people of Iowa. They serve the corporations and special interests who line their campaign coffers.
Democrats stand ready to clean up this mess when we win back our state for the working people and families who depend on it to be functional, not a piggybank for GOP donors.”