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Lowering and flattening tax rates
Iowa needs to be able to attract talent to the state. New and native Iowans (like me) need to be able to come home to start families and businesses. This begins with lower and competitive state taxes and returning unused revenue back to hard working Iowans.
Rep. Gehlbach and the Iowa House delivered on their promises and delivered significant income tax relief for all taxpaying Iowans, lowering the rate to 3.8% in 2025. In 2023, the legislature also delivered property tax reform with more to be done in 2025.
Education Reform to make Iowa #1 again
Rep. Gehlbach serves on the House Education Committee where they led to raise beginning teacher pay to the 5th highest in the nation and raised pay for paraprofessionals.
The Legislature and Governor also passed historic school choice reform to put parents in charge of their child’s education. And they protected Iowa children from experimental, irreversible gender reassignment surgeries and hormone therapies.
Keeping Iowa Safe
The Legislature led to give Iowa law enforcement additional policy tools and $2 million of new money to protect Iowans from illegal immigration and related crimes such as drug crimes and human trafficking.
New laws were also passed to restrict foreign ownership of Iowa farmland. We do not want the Chinese Communist Party owning our land.
About Dan
Dan Gehlbach is a native of Urbandale and graduate of Urbandale High School. For the past 18 years Dan has called Dallas County Urbandale home. He moved back home to Iowa in 2006 to start a family and eventually start his business. Dan has served Iowa House District 46 as their Representative since being elected in November 2022 for his first term.
Dan is running for re-election to the Iowa House to keep Iowa competitive and foster the same values and climate that led him back to raise his family. Dan is committed to allowing parents to direct their child’s education by funding students instead of systems, protecting individual freedoms, including keeping the government from mandating what we put in our bodies, and a state tax structure to attract businesses and native Iowans back to the state, while giving excess funds back to hard working Iowans.
Dan and his wife Staci have 2 daughters that attend Des Moines Christian where they are in 11th and 8th grade. Dan and Staci own and operate Mathnasium Learning Center in West Des Moines. Their center has been open since 2011 and has helped hundreds, if not thousands, of kids reach their potential and thrive in math.
Dan was formerly on the Waukee Community School District’s Board of Directors where he served as past Vice-President. He was elected in November 2019 to a four-year term. He resigned in November 2022 following his election to the Iowa House of Representatives.
Prior to being elected, Dan also served on the Waukee Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors where he chaired both the scholarship and ambassadors’ committees, the Waukee Schools Foundation Board where he chaired the scholarship committee, two Waukee School Boundary Committees, was a nationally elected member of the Mathnasium Franchise Advisory Committee, and is a past graduate of the West Des Moines Leadership Academy.
Dan holds a master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Arizona State University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Kansas. Before starting Mathnasium, Dan was a Certified Internal Auditor and worked in the healthcare, gaming, and publishing industries. Dan also spent 2 years overseas in Japan as a High School Teacher. Dan’s wife Staci is also a former elementary school teacher and is a substitute teacher at Des Moines Christian School.
Dan and Staci attend Eternity Church in Clive where they are both active members in their church home.