Platform published 2026-10-31
Lahn says he will protect life before birth and work to improve family health after birth, end state benefits for illegal immigrants, put Iowans first for jobs in state government and public universities, defend Second Amendment rights, lower the tax burden on families, and keep partisan political advocacy out of classrooms. He makes Iowa's cancer rates a central priority, calling for independent state-level safety testing of agricultural products, directing University of Iowa and Iowa State research toward the cancer crisis, and stronger prevention and early detection. On water quality, he says Iowa need not choose between clean water and strong agriculture, and proposes funding the Iowa's Water and Land Legacy program for water quality, expanded statewide monitoring, targeted conservation incentives, long-term incentives for saturated buffers, wetlands, and cover crops, and university research on water problems. On affordability, he would reduce property taxes on families, raise taxes on out-of-state institutional investors, ban Wall Street hedge funds from buying single-family homes, expand homeownership, support local food and food-freedom policies, and increase taxes on data centers to directly reduce Iowans' property taxes. To keep Iowa land in Iowa hands, he would end illegal foreign ownership of farmland, shift property taxes from farms to out-of-state investors, bring antitrust action against agricultural monopolies, and protect farmers' right to repair.
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