Steve Bannon

So it's got to focus on those positive, practical things that are common sense, that term that President Trump uses the whole time. It's exactly right. We've had so much ideology over these past years. That's what's driven all this extremism and ended with those terrible results that we all know. So we've just got to think about those basic things. It's a simple story of the California dream.

A good job where you make enough to raise your family in a home of your own, a safe neighborhood, with a good school so your kids have a better life than you. That is the ladder of opportunity. Every rung on that has been smashed by Democrat policy. We've got to rebuild it. We've got to allow people to actually live in California.

A good job where you make enough to raise your family in a home of your own, a safe neighborhood, with a good school so your kids have a better life than you. That is the ladder of opportunity. Every rung on that has been smashed by Democrat policy. We've got to rebuild it. We've got to allow people to actually live in California.

So many families I speak to are young people wanting to have families. So there's no way we can do that in California. It's so tough to live, to just avoid the basics. So the number one thing I want to do, the quickest thing we can do to directly put more money in people's pockets is

So many families I speak to are young people wanting to have families. So there's no way we can do that in California. It's so tough to live, to just avoid the basics. So the number one thing I want to do, the quickest thing we can do to directly put more money in people's pockets is

is take working people and working families out of state income tax, because it's insane the level of taxation in California. You add it all up, we have the highest taxes in the country. So the first part of my plan is to take anyone earning $100,000 or less, which is not a big salary in California, considering how expensive everything is, won't pay state income tax.

is take working people and working families out of state income tax, because it's insane the level of taxation in California. You add it all up, we have the highest taxes in the country. So the first part of my plan is to take anyone earning $100,000 or less, which is not a big salary in California, considering how expensive everything is, won't pay state income tax.

Right now they're paying 9.3% state income tax. Even if you're earning $70,000, it's insane. Secondly, we've got to make it easier to start and run a business in California. I've run businesses both here in America. I've started companies in England. It's so difficult. We're just an endless, insane bureaucracy. It's coming out of state government. We've got to cut it right back.

Right now they're paying 9.3% state income tax. Even if you're earning $70,000, it's insane. Secondly, we've got to make it easier to start and run a business in California. I've run businesses both here in America. I've started companies in England. It's so difficult. We're just an endless, insane bureaucracy. It's coming out of state government. We've got to cut it right back.

and allow people to just follow their dreams. And especially small businesses, they're being absolutely out by Democrat regulations and insanity from state government in Sacramento. Homes, we can't, we have the highest housing costs in America. The number one reason for that, we're just not allowed to build homes anywhere where people want to live.

and allow people to just follow their dreams. And especially small businesses, they're being absolutely out by Democrat regulations and insanity from state government in Sacramento. Homes, we can't, we have the highest housing costs in America. The number one reason for that, we're just not allowed to build homes anywhere where people want to live.

That dream of a single family home where you can raise your kids, the yard, we can enjoy the weather. The Democrats are ideologically against that. They want everyone to live in apartments, density in the middle of cities. That's not the California dream.

That dream of a single family home where you can raise your kids, the yard, we can enjoy the weather. The Democrats are ideologically against that. They want everyone to live in apartments, density in the middle of cities. That's not the California dream.

So we've got to remove those restrictions, get rid of the complexity and all the building codes, make it easy and cheaper to build the homes we want. And finally, I talk about great kids in the broader sense. Of course, the school system has to be improved. We have like barely half the kids in our public schools can meet basic state standards in English. For math, it's 33%.

So we've got to remove those restrictions, get rid of the complexity and all the building codes, make it easy and cheaper to build the homes we want. And finally, I talk about great kids in the broader sense. Of course, the school system has to be improved. We have like barely half the kids in our public schools can meet basic state standards in English. For math, it's 33%.

Those numbers should be 100%. And the way we do that is to get more transparency so that we can reward good teachers and remove bad ones. And so we've got to have a grade for every school, a grade for every teacher, so that parents can see what's going on. then you give them the power to make the changes. That's just the start of it. It's a common sense thing. Wide agreement.

Those numbers should be 100%. And the way we do that is to get more transparency so that we can reward good teachers and remove bad ones. And so we've got to have a grade for every school, a grade for every teacher, so that parents can see what's going on. then you give them the power to make the changes. That's just the start of it. It's a common sense thing. Wide agreement.

This is not controversial. It's not ideological.

This is not controversial. It's not ideological.

Absolutely nailed it. These are man-made problems, or to be specific, Democrat-made problems. These are policy choices that have given us all these insane cost. There was a time when we had the most affordable homes in the country in California. We would build, build, build. That's when the California dream, that suburban life we all imagine is the American dream. That used to happen.