Jessica Tarlov
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Of course I support...
Gay rights, gay marriage, trans rights, whatever it is.
But then kind of if you dig in about how they feel about social programs, then it gets a little if here.
So I need more specifics on it.
But I do think that those people exist.
They're kind of like old school Republicans.
I feel like at this point, like a lot of the Republicans who switched over to vote for Biden and then Kamala Harris in 2024.
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.