James Talarico

And I just, nothing against Walmart.

I shop at Walmart.

I think my problem is that the most powerful people

the wealthiest people, need to step up and do their fair share.

And a lot of them do, which is great.

But I think it can't just be the honor system anymore.

We've got to close these loopholes.

We've got to crack down on tax cheats and ensure that we are growing again together as a country and that everyone feels a sense of patriotism, economic patriotism,

a sense of citizenship and recognizes what they owe to this country.

Because even though successful people were able to do it because they had people supporting them, they had schools educating them, they had infrastructure, they had roads to drive on to move their products.

It was...

a partnership between that entrepreneur, their dream, their grit, their hard work, and a community that fosters it and makes it possible.

And so then there's a relationship between those two things.

And that relationship has been severed over the last 50 years.

Yeah.

I think public safety is the most important thing the government does.

And again, I'm a former teacher, so public education is my passion, but I think public safety comes before everything.

Because if you're not safe, if you don't have a safe neighborhood, if you're not secure in your home, if your family's not secure, it's really hard to care about anything else.

And so we have to have policies that ensure public safety.

If someone calls 911, a professional needs to answer that call and show up immediately.