Interests of a 30-Year-Old

A 30-year-old in Texas is in the peak family-formation squeeze — colliding peak housing-cost crisis, peak childcare-cost crisis, and peak student-loan-burden crisis. Cornyn's small-business plank, anti-tariff posture (which helps 30-year-old entrepreneurs whose suppliers cross the border), and 2017 TCJA framework that benefits younger income earners give him more 30-year-old credit than Paxton receives. He loses ground on the dominant 30-year-old concerns — housing, childcare, healthcare costs, parental leave — where his Senate record offers no published plank. Talarico's platform reads like a checklist for this cohort: federal paid family leave, universal childcare, banning Wall Street from buying up housing, expanding LIHTC, the Child Tax Credit and EITC expansion, regulating PBMs, and a Medicare buy-in option for gig workers. The grade is closer than the 18-year-old grade because 30-year-olds are more economically and culturally diverse, with a meaningful slice of conservative small-business owners, hunters, and culturally traditional families for whom Cornyn scores higher.