Ro Khanna
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And I don't think this should be partisan.
I don't think we need to be defending wasteful, inefficient government.
But did you, I don't know your story of, did you go to public school or did you?
So did I, right?
You want a decent public school for everyone.
I don't know about you.
I had teachers who believed in me and paved the way.
I grew up in a middle-class family, but I didn't have to worry about being able to see a doctor, get a physical.
You know, I just want the basics.
And the reality is, I mean, if I'm being honest about the math is,
Yes, we need to go about waste and fraud.
I don't think the math works to be able to get health care for everyone and to be able to get a decent education for everyone, trade schools or college, if you just do that without having the extraordinary wealthy pay a bit more in tax.
Look, my district,
where you have more people on for my district than anyone.
Probably.
We've got $18 trillion of wealth.
One third of America's wealth is in my 50 mile radius district.
Five companies over a trillion dollars, Nvidia, Google, Apple, Tesla, and Broadcom.
And they asked Jensen, the Nvidia CEO, he said, yeah, OK, fine, I'll pay a tax or something.
I love living in Silicon Valley.