Politicians’ actions don’t always match their words. This appears especially true of today’s Democrats. On the campaign trail and while in public office, the party’s leaders — from President Biden on down — criticize the wealthy and promise to help the poor. While most Democrats want to raise taxes on businesses and people with high incomes, the policies they’ve introduced over the past few years heavily favor and subsidize these same groups. Democrats are fast becoming the party of handouts to the rich.

My home state of Michigan is a case study. If you listen to the pronouncements of Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer, you’d think her policy agenda is focused on subsidizing workers and low-income families. In fact, key programs promoted by Whitmer and the new Democrat-controlled legislature throw huge sums of taxpayer money at the wealthy.

Consider her plan to subsidize people who buy electric vehicles. Whitmer wants to provide $2,000 rebates to EV purchasers. She also supports exempting these vehicles from the state’s sales tax, costing the state budget an estimated $48 million. Another $65 million of taxpayers’ money she wants to spend on charging stations, and she intends to hand out billions to the corporations making the batteries and the vehicles.

Who benefits from these policies? Not low- and middle-income families. They can’t afford electric vehicles, even with all this government assistance. It’s mostly the rich who will benefit from Whitmer’s handouts.