Wisconsin families are being squeezed by the rising cost of housing, health care, child care, utilities, groceries, and nearly everything else.

There is a difference between money that is earned by building something, growing something, or providing a valuable service and money that is extracted through monopolies, middlemen, hidden fees, and fine print.

A healthy market rewards value. A rigged market rewards whoever has enough power to write the rules.

Government should not pick winners and losers. Its job is to be a fair referee, enforce clear rules, and make sure working families are not paying the price for someone else’s sweetheart deal.

In the State Senate, I’ll work to:

Build housing people can afford and protect the homes they already own.
Cut unnecessary permitting delays, modernize zoning, and reduce barriers to starter homes and workforce housing. Pair that with structural property tax relief so families are not priced out of homes they already own.

Lower health care and prescription drug costs.
Require greater transparency from pharmacy benefit managers, insurers, hospitals, and other middlemen. Support pass-through drug pricing and protect independent pharmacies from abusive contracting practices.

Treat child care like workforce infrastructure.
When parents cannot find affordable child care, they cannot work, and local employers cannot fill open jobs. Wisconsin should provide sustainable support for providers and working families while expanding the supply of quality child care.

Make growth pay for growth.
Data centers and other large industrial projects can bring investment and jobs, but ordinary utility customers should not be forced to subsidize the power plants, transmission lines, and infrastructure those projects require. If a project creates the demand, the project should pay the cost.

Restore competition and protect personal freedom.
Strengthen oversight of monopolies, hidden fees, anticompetitive contracts, and industries that profit by making essential services more confusing and expensive. Protect Wisconsinites from unnecessary surveillance by both government and private companies, including the collection, sale, and misuse of personal data without meaningful consent. Businesses should compete by offering better products and services, not by tracking people, manipulating their choices, or using information customers never knowingly agreed to surrender.

We can make Wisconsin more affordable without creating another layer of bureaucracy.

We do it by restoring competition, protecting personal freedom, enforcing clear rules, and making sure the people profiting from the squeeze play by the same rules as the families paying the bill.