Katie Porter

Free child care is not something I'm doing for kids.

It's not something I'm even doing for parents or grandparents who are tired of being the free child care.

Child care grows our economy.

And that's what California needs.

Or apparently not, because he said he said me not paying tax, me paying more taxes is not the solution.

So let me tell you where I got, because I think I'm known as a straight shooter, so let me be really straight with everyone.

Hit me.

Do you know where I got the idea of no California state income taxes on people earning less than $100,000?

Steve Hilton.

Oh.

So the reason I tell you that is, I mean, I think Steve's got crazy pants ideas coming out of his mouth most of the time.

But I'm looking for good ideas.

And the fact that Steve said it, I thought about what that would have meant for me early in my career.

I thought about the person who's working as a cashier at my Albertsons.

and what it would mean for them to not feel like they're paying into a state that right now they don't feel like they're getting what they need out of so i also think that's part of it is like you're saying you have to be willing to look at spending you have to make spending decisions period like and we have been sort of when gavin newsom ran in 2018 and really he gave me so much help on the campaign trail he came to campaign for me but look it was a different moment

And he basically said, we'll have this, we'll have that, we'll have X, we'll have Y, we'll have Q. You can have a free pony.

Like everybody can have everything.

That's not where we are right now.

So I am absolutely willing to make tough decisions.

One of the things I've said is, for example, on homelessness, we've got to put more money into prevention.