Jessica Tarlov

Scott, what do you think?

I think that you could also just be like a responsible Doge person, like how they did Doge in the 1990s.

I think that is an option for Fiscally Conservative because we do waste so much money on just bloat.

Like, actually do the Pentagon audit and see what you get as a result.

But anyway.

You want to go first?

I was nervous about the funding for public goods that would come as a result of this.

But I like the idea of targeted sales tax holidays, like around something like school supplies that you know are going to hit lower and middle income families the hardest.

And I think that emphasis also on tax.

tax credits that can be used by lower and middle class families, like with kids, for instance.

I mean, that's the number one way that we got, what we get like 50% of kids out of poverty with the child tax credit.

So I think that you could do that.

I think the country would have a hard time, and I know it's state by state basis, but everybody feels like their taxes are too high.

The richest people feel that, but it's not true.

But everybody else kind of, even that

weird, like you're rich, but you don't feel rich that we were talking about with the new poverty line and kind of what the middle class is here.

So I think doing it in a targeted way that showed that you're thinking about people in the lower and middle income brackets, especially those with kids, would be very useful.

But I like the discussion.

I think that it's a smart one, but we have to make sure that everything is still funded.

And I don't know what the appetite is to raise taxes on the federal level to compensate.