So to be clear, funding for public education has gone up second, as opposed to homesteads paying to fund those schools. It would be the state of Texas responsible for doing that. Admittedly. Listen, This is going to cost about $10 billion. If you look at what the Texas budget surplus is right now for each of the past four years, the budget surplus alone would have been enough to pay for that. (08:14–08:17)
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Asserts that [the proposed funding initiative] will cost about $10 billion.
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