James Talarico

In fact, I am trying to humanize billionaires because I think the accumulation of more wealth than you could spend in 100 lifetimes, Elon Musk is about to become the world's first trillionaire, is not just bad for the world.

It's not just bad for our neighbors.

It's not just bad for Texans.

It's also bad for those billionaires.

And I actually think the path that I'm laying out, which is going to include higher taxes on billionaires, depending on how much money you make, it may mean you're not going to be a billionaire anymore.

But I think a more just economy where we grow together, kind of like the economy we had in the middle of the 20th century, I think is actually good for all of us.

And I'm not proposing a maximum income.

But I'm asking if you should.

No, I'm not.

But what I do think is if you have tax rates on...

the richest people in the country like we had in the 1950s and 1960s, a lot of people are no longer gonna be billionaires.

And that is just gonna be the result of a more, a fairer economy.

So if that's the result, so be it.

But I'm not trying to put a ceiling

on success.

I'm a big believer in success.

I want to be successful.

I want my family to be successful.

I want my neighborhood to be successful.

So I'm not trying to demonize that kind of success.