While corporations and billionaires hoard profits, working Tennesseans are putting in more hours, paying more at the register, and taking home less. That is not an accident. It is the result of choices made in Nashville that put profit over people.
I fight for a people-first economy that puts money back in the pockets of regular folks and closes the loopholes that let big corporations pick our pockets. In a state with no income tax, working families carry too much of the load through sales taxes and fees while big companies line up for handouts.
What I'm Fighting For
- Cut the cost of living: eliminate the state sales tax on groceries so we stop taxing families just for feeding their kids.
- Set a real Tennessee minimum wage above the $7.25 federal floor. Nobody working full time in this state should live in poverty.
- Invest the state’s budget surplus in people: childcare, public schools, affordable housing, and the basic infrastructure families need to live with dignity.
- Invest in small business and minority entrepreneurship: expand access to capital and low-interest loans, and prioritize state grants and contracts for minority- and women-owned businesses.
- End the corporate giveaways: put real scrutiny on the tax breaks and incentives handed to big corporations while our neighborhoods get nothing in return.
- Hold big tech accountable: require the large data centers moving into Memphis to pay for their own power and water upgrades so residents don’t get stuck with higher MLGW bills.
- Prepare for what’s next: back retraining programs for workers displaced by automation, and support clean energy and construction projects that create good long-term jobs right here.