Rep. Dan Swanson spoke out about the costs of living and doing business in Illinois. | IL Rep Dan Swanson/Facebook
Rep. Dan Swanson spoke out about the costs of living and doing business in Illinois. | IL Rep Dan Swanson/Facebook
State Rep. Dan Swanson (R-Mendota) takes the state's inflation rates personally.
"Inflation remains high, and it continues to impact every single person in Illinois who makes a purchase at a store," Swanson recently said in a Facebook post. "As your representative, I will continue to fight for the families of District 71 by pushing back against reckless spending and forcing unfunded mandates on our businesses, schools, or local governments. It's the right thing to do to save families money."
Swanson is among the lawmakers who spoke out about the costs of living and doing business in Illinois, according to Rock Island Today. He argued in July that the state has a spending problem.
"Illinois taxpayers are sick of the high gas taxes, property taxes, and inflation costs," he said in an earlier Facebook post. "The government doesn't have a revenue problem; it has a spending problem."
Swanson called on President Joe Biden to do something about high gas prices in June, Rock Island Today reported.
"Gas prices continue to rise, and Illinois families, farmers, and businesses are feeling major pain at the pump," Swanson said in another Facebook post. "It has become an urgent national concern."
The representative introduced House Resolution 719 in March in response to high gas prices and inflation, according to Rock Island Today. The legislation asks federal government officials "to halt their current policies and put into place solutions that will lower gas prices and bring America back to energy independence," the Facebook post said.
Swanson's concerns in Springfield this year were not confined to getting the economy back on track. He also worked to urge constituents to pay attention to their health.
"Four years ago, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer," he said on the House floor in March, according to Rock Island Today. "This past Dec. 2, I had surgery to remove my prostate; I would not have known my medical condition if it had not been for the PSA (prostate-specific antigen) testing by the medical field."
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