Carol Roth

Silicon Valley is important to that.

And if we have a disruption in innovation, if we have a disruption in the stock market, which all of a sudden impacts all of us and all of our wealth, these are things that don't just impact the billionaires.

It rolls out to the rest of us.

and hurts the country overall.

So we can't just poo-poo it and say, oh, it's California, you get what you vote for, because this has real consequences for everybody.

You nailed it in order.

Yep.

Absolutely.

Yep.

It is, it is going to happen.

And,

And we've seen it here in Chicago just from bad policies.

We had our biggest billionaire, Ken Griffin, who left.

Not only did he take his tax revenue, he took his philanthropy with it.

And now the middle class is having to pay crazy increases in property tax and energy and the like because we no longer have that tax revenue and they have shrunk the pie.

And nobody is economically literate or economically literate.

It's nuts.

He made personal investments in the city.

We have this gorgeous...

you know, bike and walking path that goes right along Lake Michigan that was funded because he wanted to do that.