Ruben Gallego

They're the ones who can hold everything more accountable.

I hate when I hear these things happening where in the name of

I guess like equity or egalitarianism, whatever the hell it is, they go and they destroy some of these programs that are actually very important, by the way, for lower income students to actually use to kind of rise in terms of the economic and socioeconomic power.

Like, you know, English is my second language.

If I didn't have some of these programs when I started hitting junior high, I don't think I would have built the confidence in order for me to even decide to go to college.

When they start stripping these kind of programs away, you're no longer telling, you know, the voter base that Democrats are about building that aspirational future, right?

We replace what is, you know, a good idea, like a very valued thing that we should go for, which is equity, and you're replacing it with everyone potentially just ended up on the same level.

And that doesn't make sense to people.

It doesn't make sense to, especially to working class Latinos, which I would probably know the best, right?

Even when you're billionaires, right?

Is there a billionaire tax that could work out and voters can be for, especially middle-class voters?

Absolutely.

I think there's something there.

I think we have to work out the numbers, what the effects are, all that kind of stuff, right?

But there also has to still be this general attitude like, hey, we want you to be super rich.

We're totally fine with that.

We just don't want you to screw people in the process and we want you to pay your fair taxes, right?

There needs to be a real good kind of messaging component to this beyond just punishing success, right?

The other thing is the reason we want to be successful is because we're actually the only party that will actually deliver that for them.

Right.