How State-Level Republican Officials Should Respond To Biden’s Reckless Spending

By: Jon Hansen, South Dakota State Representative and Speaker Pro Tempore of the South Dakota House.

Republicans are denouncing Joe Biden and Washington DC Democrats for their reckless spending, and rightfully so. Politicians in Washington continue to deficit spend trillions of dollars with no plan of paying it back–burdening future generations of Americans with immoral amounts of debt. And the high inflation caused by the record Washington DC spending makes it harder for families today to buy groceries and other necessities.

But talk is cheap. It’s not enough for Republicans to merely denounce Joe Biden’s wild spending spree. 

Republican elected officials at the state level have been handed billions of dollars from the feds and now have discretion over how it is to be spent. If we Republicans denounce the left’s big deficit, special interest spending, but then take part in that spending ourselves, we are just as fiscally irresponsible as those in Washington DC.

If Republicans are unwilling to refuse the Biden bucks, they shouldn’t just go along with Biden’s big government agenda and spend the federal money on massive special interest projects.  Republicans need to do better than merely become agents of Joe Biden’s out-of-control spending. 

Republicans should know that government injection of massive amounts of money into politicians’ hand-picked areas of industry is not a means of true economic growth, and we should have no part in this kind of big government, centralized, print-and-spend economics upon which Biden’s spending agenda is based.  

Instead, Republicans should reject leftist economic thought and embrace the principles that made their party—and their country—great. Limit government intrusion in the free market–don’t pick winners and losers via massive capital injection based upon centralized decision making. Make families the focus of our budgeting. Lower tax burdens on families so they can spend more of their own hard earned money.  Provide educational choice so that families have the freedom to select the education option that works best for their own children.  And support policies that embrace parents in their role as the primary nurturers, moral teachers, educators, and caretakers of their children.  This should be the Republican way.

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