James Talarico

And hoarding a trillion dollars to yourself, more money than you could spend in a hundred lifetimes,

That is not love.

And, you know, our faith traditions warn us about concentrated wealth and power and the danger of that.

And so I'm trying to, I think in this campaign, bring us back to a point as a country where we are growing and thriving together as one community, rather than just the folks at the very top at our expense.

That's right.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

And those two things are very much linked together.

Yeah.

That American dream is one that's only possible if we have an economy, if we have a government that works for all of us, not just the people at the very top.

The average Texan pays about 14% of their income in federal income taxes.

the 400 wealthiest Americans pay half that as a percentage.

I'm not talking about the raw number, I'm talking about as a percent of their income.

And that just seems completely backwards to me.

I think it seems backwards to everybody.

And so I think we have to rewrite the rules of this economy.

We have to reform this political system so that we can start to grow together again and revitalize that American dream so that more people can realize and fulfill their God-given potential.

And so that means you and I are subsidizing that corporation's bottom line.

Because if I'm putting my hard-earned taxes into Medicaid...

to cover employees at Walmart, that means that I am subsidizing Walmart's profit margins.