“I'll warn you; this plan is not for the faint of heart.”
So goes the introduction to Florida Senator Rick Scott’s 11-point gameplan for re-election to the United States Senate.
Scott currently serves as the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and he said his hope is that his plan would “strike fear in the heart of some Republicans.”
Included among those 11 proposals is a plan to complete former President Donald Trump’s border wall and even naming it after him.
Scott also called for all Americans to pay income tax, “even if a small amount,” a point that White House press secretary Jen Psaki was quick to attack via Twitter.
“Senate Republicans just released an economic plan that doesn't include a single proposal to lower prices for the middle class,” Psaki tweeted, alleging that the proposal would “raise taxes” on Americans, “including on seniors and working families.”
Scott’s plan also proposed closing the Department of Education, ending teacher tenure in the nation’s public schools, and requiring all students stand for the National Anthem and say the Pledge of Allegiance.
“Public schools will teach our children to love America because, while not perfect, it is exceptional, it is good, and it is a beacon of freedom in an often-dark world,” which Scott said is meant to be the antithesis of “the woke left.”
And Scott, a former Florida governor as well as current Sunshine State senator, carved out his own space in the raging culture war over whether freedom from governmental persecution also means freedom from public accountability.
“We will reject both the roots and the adherents of cancel culture in America,” Scott wrote, while also calling on government to treat social media platforms who moderate their content “like publishers… subject to legal action.”
The proposal says it was paid for by Scott’s own re-election campaign and not the larger NRSC.
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