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Every month, Louisiana families are told to “hang on,” that inflation is cooling, that prices will start coming down. But that’s not how the economy works. Prices don’t fall — they ratchet up and stay there. A few grocery items might dip for a moment, but the total at the register never budges. Insurance never goes backward. Utilities only move one direction. The real crisis isn’t inflation; it’s that our people don’t have the resources to survive an economy designed to squeeze them. And here’s the hard truth: the Republican leaders who run our state and country are ideologically incapable of helping you. They aren’t failing to bring your costs down — they’re promising something that cannot be delivered.
Prices almost never fall unless we’re in a recession so deep it destroys jobs and families. Inflation measures the rate of increase, not the level. Commodity prices swing all the time, but businesses rarely pass savings down to consumers — and the biggest drivers of household budgets, like housing, healthcare, insurance, and utilities, are sticky. They almost never move down at all. So if prices won’t come down, the only way life gets easier is if our resources go up. That means raising wages, expanding public investment, and reining in corporations that have far too much power over our daily lives. Republican ideology simply does not allow any of that.
Their answer to every crisis is the same: “free market” slogans that always lead to the same thing — more tax cuts for the wealthy and more deregulation for corporations. But this so-called free market has cost working people dearly. Corporations are free to wipe out competition, collect billions in subsidies, suppress wages, buy off politicians, and accumulate ungodly amounts of wealth and political power. And they overwhelmingly fund Republican politicians to keep it that way.
Republican ideology forbids using the only tools that actually lower real household costs by raising people’s resources: asking the wealthy to pay their share, investing in public programs, and holding corporations accountable. They can’t raise wages. They can’t expand worker protections. They won’t regulate insurance companies, polluters, or utility monopolies. They refuse to raise revenue, even when our entire state is breaking under the weight of insurance premiums, electric bills, and stagnant paychecks.
Democratic policies, on the other hand, actually raise people’s resources. That means raising wages from the bottom up and strengthening the middle class through a higher minimum wage and real protections for workers who organize. It means bold ideas like a pollution fee [ [link removed] ] so polluters — not families — pay for the insurance crisis they caused. It means funding FEMA so disasters don’t wipe out entire towns. It means Medicare for All so families aren’t buried under medical debt. It means higher taxes on the super-wealthy and corporations so the people of Louisiana — not multistate conglomerates — finally get the resources we need. Just like we did in the past with Social Security, Medicare, the GI Bill, rural electrification, interstate highways, and public universities — the public foundations that made life affordable for generations.
But while Democrats fight to strengthen these programs, Republican politicians target them for cuts — especially the ones that matter most to states like Louisiana. Medicaid. SNAP. CHIP. Hospitals. FEMA. TANF. These aren’t handouts. They are federal transfers — flow-through money that keeps our families, our hospitals, and our towns afloat. Louisiana pays far less in federal taxes than we receive back, most of it subsidized by wealthier blue states like New York and California. When Republicans slash these programs, they are sucking tens of billions of dollars straight out of the pockets of Louisianans and redirecting it out of state as tax breaks for the rich.
And those cuts make everything more expensive. Cut Medicaid? Hospitals lose funding and raise prices on private insurance. Cut SNAP? Grocery stores lose revenue and raise prices. Cut FEMA? Insurers face higher disaster losses, and home insurance premiums spike statewide. Cut public schools? Wages stagnate, poverty rises, crime increases — all of which pushes costs even higher.
Republicans aren’t lowering your bills — they are raising them. Not by accident, but by design. Their ideology prohibits them from using any tool that would help ordinary people and incentivizes them to protect those who profit when you struggle.
For decades, Republicans have asked working people in Louisiana to put their faith in promises that never come true: that tax cuts for the wealthy will raise wages, that deregulation will lower bills, that markets will magically fix what markets broke. And for decades, those same families have fallen further behind while the wealthy and well-connected walk away richer.
Democrats are offering something different — and something we’ve seen work before: higher wages, fair taxes, real investment, safer communities, stronger schools, and a government that stands up to corporations instead of kneeling before them. Working people built this state. They deserve leaders who fight for them, not leaders who tell them to wait their turn while prices rise and wages stall.
Louisiana has a choice to make. We can keep empowering the politicians who protect the powerful, or we can choose the leaders who are finally ready to fight for us. Our future, our families, and our state depend on getting that choice right.
What can you do to help change Louisiana?
Set up a $5 monthly contribution to the Louisiana Democratic Party here [ [link removed] ]
We have to get back to nuts and bolts of what built Democratic domination in the past. Sign up your interest to become a precinct organizer here [ [link removed] ].
Who’s running for Congress in 2026? Check out Jamie Davis [ [link removed] ] running for U.S. Senate against Bill Cassidy, Conrad Cable [ [link removed] ] against Speaker Mike Johnson (LA-4), Lauren Jewett [ [link removed] ] against Steve Scalise (LA-1), Tia Lebrun [ [link removed] ] against Clay Higgins (LA-3) and Larry Foy [ [link removed] ] against Julia Letlow (LA-5).
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