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Jolly supports Big Government and Central Planning

In this interview by Collin County Votes https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=qqImwxy31WAw, Jolly lays out her philosophy of a big government approach to controlling our lives. Instead of just providing for the core functions of Government (protecting our rights, our civil liberties, our borders, and our security from enemies at home and abroad), she envisions the role of a State Representative to be a social engineer. She talks about controlling where people “work, live, and play” in an attempt to help alleviate the traffic congestion that she and her high density apartment-pushing political buddies have forced on us in HD70. For years, citizens attended council meetings to warn that the area had exceeded the number of residents that could be accommodated by the infrastructure and still maintain a healthy suburb. They implored the council to stop voting for so much multifamily housing, as a way to slow the population growth. For years, Jolly and her establishment cronies ignored the fact that more residents = more traffic. Despite the Plano City Council approving rezoning for apartments by the tens of thousands, Jolly solicited them to vote in favor of a proposed high density apartment development at the JC Penny property in the business park. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi6xCIp3fqQ

In the same Collin County Votes interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=qqImwxy31WA, Jolly seems to blame the fact that we have a labor shortage, on the need for workers to receive the education that allows them to enter the workforce. This completely misses the reason for the shortage of employees: two years of receiving Covid stimulus checks have conditioned many workers to stay home or quit their jobs, rather than work for a living.

Jolly goes on to talk about equity, diversity, and inclusion, in terms of ensuring that everyone “FEELS comfortable and fits in”. Those are sentiments that are more in line with the purview of a kindergarten teacher than a state legislator! Do we really want our legislators micromanaging people with the unachievable goal of ensuring that everyone “FEELS welcome”, or do we want legislators to protect our legal rights?

At the beginning of the interview, Jolly states that property owners are burdened from the rise in taxes on their homes. She does not offer a solution that she would advocate for on our behalf, but rather says that she would “like to work with the legislature to understand how we might fix the problem of Robin Hood”. Half a year from when she began this campaign, you would think she would have done her homework by now, to know what she would do to alleviate this tax burden if elected. “Robin Hood” is the socialist school tax “redistribution” scheme, of which Jolly said the following, “Robin Hood was great, and there was a great reason it was created, and that it’s to create more equity amongst the schools and across the state. But the model doesn’t work anymore with the rising property values and so I think addressing that is first and foremost for me”. Notice that she gives no specifics as to how she will address that, or that Robin Hood has always been fatally flawed, because it is wrong to steal from the rich to give to the poor (in the generous name of “equity”).

Her other priority is the border situation, but not for the obvious reason that we have thousands of illegal aliens pouring in through our borders, overwhelming our schools, healthcare system, government entitlement programs, and driving down wages; but because “we are seeing large increases in human trafficking and drug trafficking, so I do think we need to do something about uh border security”. But here’s the big problem with her second priority: She doesn’t state HOW she will solve the border crisis, and as mentioned above, she does not support building a wall.

Notice that Jolly is quick to promise a solution, but does not explain the logistics of how she would solve the problems, or how she would fund them. In this video, she promises to reduce property taxes by 25%, but only says that she will use state funds to do it. Sounds like a shell game.

She was president of the pro-illegal immigration Chamber of commerce, which benefits from cheap labor at the expense of jobs for Americans, and promoted (forced) “inclusion”.

https://members.planochamber.org/events/details/plano-culture-inclusion-alliance-employee-resource-group-panel-discussion-22006