Our Policies

A developing collection of policy frameworks designed to turn our values and priorities into practical, results-driven solutions.

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The American Middle-Class Prosperity Tax Plan

A policy framework to rebuild broad-based prosperity by cutting taxes for working families, restoring fairness at the top, rewarding companies that invest in American workers, and keeping inflation and deficits under control. Inspired by the proven economic success of the mid-1960s, this plan focuses on middle-out growth, responsible taxation, and public investments that deliver visible returns for everyday Americans.

Delivering a Real Return on the American Investment

The American Middle-Class Prosperity Tax Plan is a comprehensive tax and economic framework designed to rebuild broad-based prosperity by ensuring that growth once again benefits working families, strengthens the middle class, and delivers visible returns for the people who fund the government. It starts from a simple premise: if Americans are the government’s largest investors, they deserve a meaningful return on that investment.

For decades, the economy has grown on paper while wages stagnated, costs rose, and wealth concentrated at the top. This plan draws inspiration from one of the most successful economic periods in American history—the mid-1960s—when productivity gains translated into rising wages, inflation remained stable, and the middle class expanded. Our tax policy updates that proven model for today’s economy.

The framework prioritizes middle-class tax relief, including lower taxes for working families, expanded deductions, and payroll tax offsets for households under $125,000—putting more money directly into paychecks and strengthening consumer-driven growth. At the same time, it restores fairness at the top by ensuring that very high earners and large capital gains are taxed responsibly, closing loopholes that reward wealth over work.

The plan reforms the corporate tax code to be pro-growth and pro-worker, rewarding companies that invest in domestic manufacturing, clean energy, research and development, and worker training—while discouraging tax avoidance and short-term financial engineering. It also addresses inflation without sacrificing jobs by coordinating fiscal policy with the Federal Reserve, expanding housing and energy supply, and targeting overheated sectors rather than imposing broad, blunt austerity.

Finally, the Return on the American Investment commits to paying for what we spend. New investments are paired with responsible revenue, ineffective programs are sunset, and temporary safeguards are used to prevent overheating—ensuring strong growth without passing today’s costs onto future generations.

This is not a proven approach. By combining fair taxation, disciplined spending, and public investments in infrastructure, education, housing, and healthcare cost stability, this tax policy offers a practical roadmap to shared prosperity and a real return on the American investment.

Property Assessment Transparency and Disclosure Act (Model County Ordinance)

This proposal serves as a model framework for counties across the district to improve fairness, transparency, and accountability in property tax assessments. While property taxation is administered at the local level, this campaign will advocate for and support county governments in adopting clear, uniform standards that protect property owners and restore public trust.

The framework calls for counties to disclose valuation methodologies, automatically provide parcel-level explanations when assessments rise sharply, and conduct regular audits to ensure similarly situated properties are assessed consistently. It encourages aligning annual assessment increases with inflation, strengthening appeal rights, enforcing reasonable timelines, and establishing independent oversight and public reporting.

As a member of Congress, Lauren will use her office to elevate best practices, promote federal transparency standards, support data modernization, and work with local leaders to advance these reforms. The goal is not federal control of property taxes, but empowered local governments, informed taxpayers, and predictable, equitable assessments across the district.

Keeping the Promise:

The Social Security Fair Share Plan

Lauren believes Social Security is a sacred trust and promise that must be kept for every generation. But today, the system faces a growing inequality gap that threatens its long-term health.

Right now, a typical nurse or teacher pays into Social Security with every single paycheck, all year long. In contrast, a billionaire CEO often stops paying into the system just seconds, minutes, or hours into the first day of the year.

In 2026, the Social Security payroll tax applies only to the first $184,500 of a person’s earnings. Because high-end wages have grown much faster than wages for the average worker, the share of American earnings that fund Social Security has dropped from 90 percent in 1983 to just 83 percent today. That imbalance weakens the program’s financial foundation.

Lauren’s plan to “Scrap the Cap” restores fairness and strengthens the system by requiring individuals with incomes over $400,000 to pay the same 12.4 percent Social Security tax rate as everyone else.

To protect middle-class professionals and small business owners, the plan creates a “donut hole” that exempts income between the current wage cap and $400,000 from any additional payroll tax. This ensures that reforms are targeted squarely at the top 1 percent of earners — not at families who are still working their way up.

Crucially, Lauren’s framework also addresses the modern concentration of wealth. The plan applies the Social Security tax to unearned investment and certain business income for high-earning households. This ensures that wealth contributes to our collective security just as much as work does.

This common-sense approach achieves three critical goals without raising taxes by a single penny on more than 99 percent of households earning $400,000 or less:

Guarantees Solvency
- Extends Social Security’s ability to pay full benefits for at least the next 75 years.

Funds a Benefit Boost
- Provides the revenue necessary to increase monthly benefits by $200 for all current and new retirees — an additional $2,400 per year to help cover the rising cost of essentials.

Protects the Middle Class
- Targets reforms at the highest earners while shielding middle-class Americans from immediate tax increases.

The Heartland Renaissance:

Empowering our Small Farms and Main streets

For too long, Kansas 1st Congressional district has been treated as an "extraction zone" rather that a center of innovation. Our rural communities stand at a critical crossroads and it is time for a blueprint that restores economic sovereignty to our farmers and invests in the essential infrastructure of our future

Lauren's "New Deal for Rural America" is built on the belief that a community cannot thrive if its people are unsupported. Her vision is guided by the principles of economic resilience, local empowerment, and sustainability. Our campaign is committed to a future where decision making power is shifted back to local stakeholders and resources are directed toward small family farms, tribal communities, and underserved regions.

Our Plan for a Thriving Heartland

Agricultural transformation

We will make small and mid-sized farming profitable again by reforming subsidies to prioritize family operations over industrial agribusiness. We will also support the next generations of farmers through federal loan guarantees and incentives for land transfers.

21st-Century infrastructure

Modern infrastructure mean more than just roads; it means global connectivity. Our plan will establish a high-speed internet mandate and create a "Public Option" for broadband where private provides refuse to build.

Economic and Energy Sovereignty

Our plan will continue the work to bring back manufacturing to the heartland with targeted incentives for ag-Tech and clean energy. We will modernize the rural grid to support farmer-owned energy cooperatives, ensuring our communities lead the nation in the green transition.

Quality of Life

Our plan will move us to a "Global Budgeting" model for rural healthcare, stabilizing costs across the district and preventing rural hospital closures. In addition, under our plan, teachers, doctors, and nurses who commit to serving our district.

Accountability

Our works to create a One-Stop Shop for federal rural grants, ensuring streamlined regional planning that answers directly to local residents.

By diversifying our economy and sustaining our soil, we will stabilize population growth, retain our youth and build a modern Kansas that is both connected and competitive.