Peggy Flanagan

many of those folks are working many of those folks right for example at walmart or amazon and we are subsidizing these companies because they do not pay their folks a wage that is high enough for them to not qualify uh for for public programs um it's outrageous so like they're spending you know their snap dollars at their employer it's double dipping let's just pay people a living wage so they can just live the lives that that they want to live

so like if you really use like let's say amazon then you need to pay a percentage of your use to go back into the infrastructure budget how does that sound i mean it sounds pretty good because right now the folks who are working at amazon right are paying a higher tax rate than the very corporation itself that's not right that is the you know that is the entire

situation that we are facing right now.

It is folks at the very, very top.

It is greedy corporations who are getting sort of everything they want and need with a just free ticket from the Trump administration and congressional Republicans that we have to say, like, who are we actually for the folks at the very, very top or people who literally are the ones who make this economy and this, you know, this country work?

It is overdue.

And

I think people are smart enough to start to understand that.

These are the conversations that I have all the time about how unjust this is and people are ready.

They want fighters and they don't want folks who are just simply going along to get along or worse, taking campaign

contributions from amazon right and then somehow saying in the other hand they're going to hold them accountable it's outrageous and people are smarter than them i hope you're right so after the 2024 election i'm not 100 sure tell me about i did not know

Well, I think part of it is, you know, we just want to make sure that people can live the lives that they want to live and our whole

you know, philosophy has been we want to make Minnesota the best place in the country to raise a family, which means, right, that you have investments and things like nation leading child tax credit, where we are simply feeding kids

breakfast and lunch at school, no questions asked.

And frankly, as a kid who used to have a different colored lunch ticket and relied on SNAP, like that's a total game changer for folks.

In January, a comprehensive paid family and medical leave program is going to go into effect.

And I started that fight when my daughter was an infant on my hip.

We got it done when she was in fourth grade, which tells me, you know, you get what you fight for and you get what you organize for.

But that I think is really part of what it means to be Minnesotan, is that we give a damn about our neighbors.

If you move into the neighborhood, we're going to bring you a hot dish, right?