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Kelda Roys: “Big businesses are getting away without paying taxes, but…”

Featuring: Kelda Roys, Democratic | Wisconsin Senate, District 26

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Campaign 2026: Sen. Kelda Roys (D) - Candidate for Governor

Published | Video Starts at 05:46

$2 billion. That's going to cost us. We've given multimillionaires and billionaires a free pass for the last generation, even as working people's share of the tax burden has gotten higher. Big businesses are getting away without paying taxes, but small businesses...are paying a higher share of those taxes. So we absolutely do have the resources to do this, but we have to make different choices. So Wisconsin has had one of the worst racial disparities on standard testing my entire career covering politics here. (05:46–05:56)

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Claims big businesses evade taxes while small businesses bear a higher tax burden.

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