- Mike Collins supported raising the retirement age for Social Security based on life expectancy and providing tax incentives to those saving for retirement or working past full benefit age.
- Mike Collins supported voucherizing Medicare. Collins endorsed the Ryan Budget, which proposed replacing Medicare’s health coverage guarantee with a premium-support voucher and raising the age of Medicare eligibility from 65 to 67.
- The Ryan Plan would shift healthcare costs to beneficiaries and leave many 65- and 66-year-olds without coverage due to simultaneous repeal of health reform measures.
- Mike Collins opposed the Affordable Care Act, advocating for its full repeal. Collins supported alternative solutions such as interstate health plan purchases, federal tort reform, and Health Savings Accounts.
- Repealing the ACA would jeopardize protections for 1.8 million Georgians with pre-existing conditions.
- Mike Collins voted for the FY 2025 House Budget Resolution, which recommended reducing mandatory spending by $2 trillion and extending tax cuts. The House plan included $880 billion in Medicaid spending cuts, raising concerns about impacts on beneficiaries.
- Medicaid cuts would affect 2 million Georgians, including seniors in nursing homes and children under CHIP.
- Mike Collins advocated for a Fair Tax system, including a flat tax or abolishing the income tax altogether.
- Mike Collins co-sponsored legislation to replace federal income taxes with a flat sales tax, despite it disproportionately benefitting wealthy individuals and burdens lower-income families.
- Mike Collins supported extending Trump's tax cuts, claiming they would fuel economic growth and prevent the largest tax increase in history.
- Trump's tax cuts primarily benefited Georgia's wealthiest households, businesses, and estates, with limited impact on low-income families.
- Mike Collins proposed repealing the Community Reinvestment Act, which addresses credit needs in underserved communities and responds to historical redlining practices.
- Mike Collins supported Trump’s tariffs, calling for fair trade and backing Trump’s approach to fixing trade imbalances.
- Mike Collins downplayed the effects of tariffs on blue-collar workers, arguing that stock market crashes wouldn’t impact most of them directly.
- Mike Collins praised the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for addressing waste, fraud, and abuse in federal agencies.
- DOGE closed five Social Security offices in Georgia, and over 600 CDC employees in Georgia were laid off.
- Mike Collins opposed clean energy incentives, claiming they ignored pressing infrastructure concerns and contributed to inflation.
- Georgia benefited from clean energy job growth, with nearly 10,000 jobs created in Collins’ district.
- Mike Collins criticized the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, arguing it failed to address transportation infrastructure effectively.
- The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law allocated billions to Georgia for various initiatives, including roads, bridges, broadband access, public transportation, airports, and ports.
- Mike Collins opposed abortion without exceptions, including in cases of rape, incest, and the life of the mother.
- Mike Collins supported Georgia’s Fetal Heartbeat Bill, banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.
- Mike Collins co-sponsored the Life at Conception Act twice, which seeks to ban nearly all abortions nationwide and could limit access to IVF treatments.
- Mike Collins celebrated the overturning of Roe v. Wade, calling it a step closer to ending abortion in America.
¶ Mike Collins Was An Election Denier And January 6 Supporter
- Mike Collins promoted the false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, stating that Donald Trump won Georgia and claiming there was fraud and irregularities in the election.
- Mike Collins supported January 6 insurrectionists, speaking at a Justice for J6 rally and referring to them as “political prisoners.”
- Mike Collins described January 6 as “peaceful” and supported Donald Trump's intention to pardon defendants involved in the Capitol riots.
- Mike Collins supported legislation that would benefit his trucking company:
- Mike Collins co-sponsored the Modern, Clean, and Safe Trucks Act of 2023 to repeal the 12% excise tax on truck sales and voted to disapprove EPA emission rules on heavy-duty trucks.
- Mike Collins introduced the Staged Accident Fraud Prevention Act to criminalize engineered crashes with commercial vehicles.
- Mike Collins criticized a bill proposing a $5 million minimum liability insurance for motor carriers, stating it would destroy small trucking businesses.
- Mike Collins highlighted safety issues with automatic emergency braking systems on heavy trucks and called for delaying mandates.
- Mike Collins engaged in potential campaign funding misuse: Collins Trucking received a $920,000 PPP loan, and then Mike Collins contributed $531,000 to his congressional campaign.
- Mike Collins hired Brandon Phillips, a GOP operative with a history of criminal activity, including animal cruelty and violent offenses.
- Mike Collins likened his Twitter use to old Baptist preachers.
- Mike Collins shared a video of white Ole Miss students taunting a Black woman during a protest, which included racist gestures.
- Mike Collins tweeted an endorsement of an antisemitic account attacking a reporter for being Jewish, refusing to apologize despite criticism.
- Mike Collins mocked the assassination of John F. Kennedy with a tweet linking Kennedy’s memory loss to crude references.
- Mike Collins called for killing undocumented immigrants by referencing the Pinochet Air meme, which is linked to ultraconservative and white supremacist groups.
Mike Collins Was Bad For Georgia Seniors
Mike Collins Opposed Access To Affordable Health Care
Mike Collins Looked Out For The Rich At The Expense Of Regular Georgians
Mike Collins Supported Trump’s Economy-Wrecking Moves
Mike Collins Was An Anti-Abortion Extremist
Mike Collins Was An Election Denier And January 6 Supporter
Mike Collins Was A Typical Swampy Politician
Mike Collins Was An Internet Troll