Grover Norquist: Republicans stopped the bleeding in 2023 while Bidenomics failed

2023 was a great year for Americans who value a strong America, liberty, lower taxes, more jobs and better education for all children. At the national level, we have suffered through three years of Bidenomics: wasteful spending, corrupt subsidies, inflation, special interest regulations and job killing taxes.

We have learned what Bidenomics means, how much it cost middle America and how it drives inflation. During the past year, we saw Republican governed states create better government at lower costs. Americans noticed the difference: More and more are moving from expensive blue states to growing red states.

This year follows two lousy years for all Americans. In 2021 and 2022, the Democratic Party controlled the House, Senate and White House without restraint. Bidenomics was imposed on America. Taxes increased. Spending pushed up by trillions. Democrats promptly shoveled tax dollars to corrupt corporate “climate” subsidies.

These were favors for the few. The national debt grew. The spending spree unleashed inflation rates not seen since Jimmy Carter’s collapsing economy more than 40 years ago. Over the last three years, the cost of living increased by close to 20%, and much faster than average wages. Americans are , and many feeling poorer.

New taxes and regulations on American workers and businesses drove jobs, savings and investment to other nations, including China and Europe. In 2023, Republicans regained the House of Representatives, and the bleeding began to slow. The GOP was able to stop hikes in taxes and spending. On the state level this year, Republicans controlled more than half of the states and have been working to phase down state income taxes to a single flat rate and then to zero.

Already, several states have no state personal income tax. A dozen states plan to phase their state income tax to zero. Nearly a dozen have a single rate income tax, and several have passed laws moving to a flat rate. Single rate income taxes are hard to increase because everyone has to pay more.

Single rate income taxes also are easier to reduce — because everyone benefits. More than a dozen states have laws requiring state funding to follow students to the schools their parents choose, including public, charter, private or homeschooling. In 2023, workers won when Tennessee placed "right to work" into its state constitution.

More than half of the states now protect workers from being forced to “join” and pay union dues or be fired. America has a key advantage over other nations. In our federal system, the states compete with one another to provide the best government at the lowest cost. Americans can move from failed states (California, New York) to well governed states (Tennessee, Florida and Texas).

And they do. As 2023 reaches its final days, we look back at a year when America saw failure at the national level and success in red states. Bidenomics is damaging the nation. Conservative run states are pulling ahead of liberal controlled states. Americans are now free to chart their future toward prosperity and growth, and away from inflation, debt and Bidenomics..