The last of 7 points in a Feb 4 email from Indiana GOP chair Hupfer that purport to reply to President Biden’s question “What are Republicans for?” Item 6: “Equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome.” This ignores reality. Teddy Roosevelt, a GOP Pres, saw this. 1/6

TR advocated for "a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes." He argued that estate taxes are required "to preserve a measurable equality of opportunity." As we have seen, the more wealth goes into fewer hands, the more that wealth will be used to preserve its advantages. 2/6

And let’s cut the crap about “trickle down” economics. A study released in 2020 by David Hope, et al, of the London School of Economics found tax cuts for the rich may not accomplish much more than help the rich keep more of their riches and exacerbate income inequality, 3/6

Education, traditionally a way to advance one’s socioeconomic status, today is a sure source of debt, as much as $200K. Kids can enlist in the military, but with increased use of drones, that avenue might be closed, just like rust belt factories. Education is infrastructure. 4/6

Until the 1960s California students did not pay tuition for college. In the early 1970s instate tuition at I.U. was twenty dollars ($20) per credit hour. We need good post-secondary education. That helps people have equal opportunity, just like Hupfer says he wants. 5/6

We need to drop tuition, at our public colleges & universities, to pre-1980 levels. I’m Mark Small. I’m pro-choice, pro environment & GOP candidate for Indiana House District 86. I approve of this blog. Hell, I wrote it. 6/6