Greg Casar

And so we don't have to tax a working class mom to drive down the cost of child care.

We just have to be willing to tax the wealth of the Jeff Bezoses and Elon Musks.

And we could have $10 a day child care for virtually everyone.

every family in this country.

We could do that if we're willing to pick out and point out the villains in the story.

Like you said, we don't have to scapegoat.

We just have to be willing to tell the truth.

And what I've been worried about is Democrats just go out there and say affordability, affordability, affordability, like a magic word.

We actually have to fill that in with the policy that we would change.

So on gas prices, these corporations are making out like bandits right now in this war.

The gas prices have shot up.

They're selling gas at over $4 a gallon all across the country.

They're making hundreds of billions of dollars in profit.

We should take most of that, tax most of that back, and send it back to the American people in the form of a rebate check.

And I know that Republicans in Texas, when I tell them that, they might say, look, Greg, obviously you're more liberal than me on this or that, but I can agree with you on that.

And we have to be ready to go and talk about that all the way through November and then actually do it if we're elected into the majority.

We've been told that we can't have these bold ideas, but some of them, like you said, aren't even that bold once you expose the truth.

Let me rant about utility bills for a second because people all across the country have seen insane increases in their utility bills in the last few years.

Some people have 50% increase just over the last few years.

When you go look at what these for-profit utilities do is they charge their private jets