Interests of a 30-Year-Old
A 30-year-old's interests are housing affordability, childcare availability and cost, healthcare costs and coverage, reproductive autonomy, wage growth, and parental leave. Abbott's $18B property-tax cut is on net helpful to homeowners but the broader Texas housing-affordability story includes data-center electricity-cost increases passed to residential customers (Hinojosa's $600/year estimate); on healthcare costs, Abbott's Medicaid-refusal leaves Texas with the highest uninsured rate in the country; SB 8 removes reproductive options. Hinojosa's Medicaid-expansion proposal, data-center cost-allocation framing, defense of reproductive rights, and stated wage-floor support align directly with 30-year-old interests. Abbott picks up modest property-tax credit but loses healthcare-and-childcare credit; Hinojosa is the substantially closer fit.
Sources
- Patrick Svitek, 'Gov. Greg Abbott signs $18 billion property tax cut into law,' Texas Tribune, July 22, 2023. (full list)
- E&E News, 'Spiraling energy costs may tighten Texas governor's race,' 2026. (full list)
- Governing, 'Texas governor still won't expand Medicaid,' archived analysis of Abbott's repeated rejection of Medicaid expansion. (full list)
- Eleanor Klibanoff, 'Gov. Greg Abbott signs into law one of nation's strictest abortion bans,' Texas Tribune, May 19, 2021. (full list)
- Fox 26 Houston, Gina Hinojosa interview discussing the Texas minimum wage, raising the federal floor, and small-business posture. (full list)