Issues & Core Values

A Citizen Legislator for Northern Illinois

For decades, Dave Syverson has brought real-world experience to Springfield as a citizen legislator. Dave understands the challenges facing working families, small businesses, farmers, and taxpayers because he has lived them. His approach is simple: listen to the people, protect taxpayers, and fight for policies that strengthen our communities and preserve individual freedom.

Property Taxes

Illinois families already pay some of the highest property taxes in the nation. Dave believes homeowners, farmers, and small business owners should be able to keep more of their hard-earned money.

Dave supports:

  • Lowering the property tax burden on families and seniors.

  • Opposing unfunded mandates that drive up local property taxes.

  • Increasing transparency and accountability in government spending.

  • Protecting taxpayers from unnecessary tax increases.

Homeownership should be attainable and affordable, not threatened by ever-increasing tax bills.

Education

Every child deserves access to a quality education that meets their individual needs and prepares them for success. Dave believes parents not government bureaucrats should have the primary role in directing their children's education.

Throughout his time in public service, Dave has been a strong advocate for homeschool families, private school families, and educational freedom. He believes parents deserve meaningful choices when it comes to their children's education and supports policies that empower families to select the learning environment that best fits their needs.

Dave supports:

  • Expanding educational opportunities through school choice.

  • Protecting the rights of homeschool and private school families.

  • Empowering parents and increasing transparency in schools.

  • Supporting career and technical education programs.

  • Expanding workforce training, apprenticeships, and skilled trades education.

  • Maintaining high academic standards and accountability.

Dave believes every student deserves the opportunity to succeed, whether they attend a public school, private school, charter school, trade program, or are educated at home. Parents know their children best, and Illinois should support—not restrict—their ability to make educational decisions.

Health Care & Insurance

Quality health care should be accessible, affordable, and patient-centered. Dave believes decisions about medical care should be made by patients and their doctors—not bureaucrats in Springfield.

Dave supports:

  • Expanding access to quality health care providers.

  • Reducing health insurance costs for families and small businesses.

  • Increasing competition in the health care marketplace.

  • Protecting rural and community health care services.

  • Supporting policies that improve care while controlling costs.

Illinois families deserve affordable health care options without sacrificing quality or personal choice.

Jobs & Opportunity

Illinois should be a place where businesses grow, jobs are created, and young people can build successful careers without leaving the state.

Dave supports:

  • Reducing burdensome regulations on businesses.

  • Creating a business climate that encourages investment and job creation.

  • Supporting manufacturers, farmers, and small businesses.

  • Expanding workforce development programs.

  • Investing in infrastructure that supports economic growth.

When businesses succeed, workers succeed, families succeed, and communities thrive.

Affordability

Too many Illinois families are struggling with rising costs and economic uncertainty. Dave believes government should make life more affordable—not more expensive.

Dave supports:

  • Opposing tax increases on working families.

  • Fighting wasteful government spending.

  • Promoting responsible budgeting and fiscal discipline.

  • Reducing the cost of living through pro-growth economic policies.

  • Protecting family budgets from excessive government mandates.

Families should have the opportunity to build a future without being priced out of the communities they call home.

Conservative Values. Common Sense Leadership.

Dave Syverson believes government works best when it is limited, accountable, and focused on serving the people. He remains committed to defending individual liberty, supporting law enforcement, protecting taxpayers, strengthening families, and ensuring that future generations have greater opportunities than those who came before them.

As a citizen legislator, Dave will continue bringing the voice of Northern Illinois to Springfield, not the other way around.