To the editor:

Want to stay poor? Vote Republican. They create:

•  No policy for small businesses

•  No policy for rising costs

•  No policy for homeowner’s insurance

•  No policy for healthcare

Instead, their policies:

•  Offer corporate subsidies, protections, and loopholes for the rich

•  Protect white-collar crime

•  Defund environmental preservation, which hurts our tourist industry.

•  Keep families of reproductive age from wanting to move and build a life here, where the full gamut of healthcare is NOT available for wives and mothers

•  Reduce education outcomes that do not attract corporations looking for world-class workers

Want to rise economically? Vote Democrat! They believe:

•  When everyone has equal access to education, good jobs, a living wage, and affordable housing, we all enjoy better economic opportunities.

•  Access to economic opportunity must be inclusive, regardless of race, gender, or economic circumstances

•  Economic opportunities depend on true free and fair markets, private enterprise, banking, and mortgage equality

•  Wages for equal work must be equal and independent of sex, race, or sexual orientation

•  The government works for everyone, establishing access to America’s world-class opportunities.

Karyn Edison

Fort Myers