New data reveals that American consumers are paying eight times more in fuel costs than consumers in any other country, according to Fortune.
Recently, the Trump administration called on the Energy Department to use funds from the Defense Production Act to increase U.S. gas and diesel production in a hope to lower fuel prices.
Meanwhile, back in May, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) proposed the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act to tax giant oil companies and return the money to consumers to combat the high costs.
Speaking on the "Washington Watch" program, U.S. Rep. Kathryn Cammack (R-Florida) called the differences in the Republican-Democrat approaches to lower costs pretty simple.
Typically, Democrats just want more dependency and control, she says.
"Which means grow the size of government to make we the people dependent on big government programs so that they, the big government advocates, aka Democrats, stay in control," Cammack said.
However, small government advocates like Republicans want to keep the money out of Washington, D.C., and in the pockets of the people, she contrasts.
"We're constantly in this battle of trying to dismantle the swamp and really bring down a lot of these programs, agencies, sub-agencies and other elements of the federal government that were never intended to actually exist," Cammack says. "We should be doing as much as we can to return the power back to the people and keeping government as local as possible."
It's fair to say, according to Cammack, that is the Democrat Party is moving toward socialism.
Sadly, for Cammack, that meant a recent outing to take down her own campaign signs that had been vandalized.
"It goes to show, truly in practice, socialism, it destroys everything that people create. It is all about take, take, take. It gives nothing. It really is emblematic of what they have been trying to pitch in the closing stretch of this midterm election around the country," she said.
This midterm season has seen a sharp increase of Democrat Socialist of America (DSA) candidates.
In fact, Cammack said she is running for re-election against Democrat Seth Harp and independent Mike Klein, both of whom she claimed are DSA candidates and are responsible for tearing down and vandalizing signs across 12 counties. She also pointed to Florida's Senate race, where Democrat Angie Nixon says she wants to put her opponent, Sen. Ashley Moody, in jail.
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Nixon has defended her comments as wanting Moody jailed for alleged mishandling of Medicaid funds.
"It's just absolute nonsense that people are even entertaining the idea of supporting this because it is antithetical to who we are as Americans, as a constitutional republic," Cammack says. "It really is a slap in the face to so many men and women who have worn our country's uniform, who serve every day in our communities."
She says the rise of the DSA is mainly coming from a place of frustration, especially since Washington is not providing the results that people want to see. It's also because of this rise, she said, that this has been a very tough midterm all around.
"Things like that really don't belong to one party or another, but that frustration, it tends to take root in different ways. The Democrat response, the DSA response is, 'Let's nationalize everything. Let's take everything. Let's tax people to death.' Whereas the Republicans want to decentralize. We want to give more power and money back to people," Cammack states.
She also doesn't discount the fact that there is a struggle in the Democrat Party against traditionalists and the DSA, just like in the Republican Party between conservatism and populism.
