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Ramon Romero Jr.: “Already this state prides itself on becoming business…”

Featuring: Ramon Romero Jr., Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 90

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Published March 30, 2016 | Video Starts at 12:04

Property values continue to rise and rise and rise. Yet we've given $9 billion in tax cuts since 1997. Nine billion. There's half of half of what you're looking for. Already this state prides itself on becoming business friendly. And it's tax cut after tax cut after tax cut. In the meantime, working class families still continue to struggle. And it's those working class families that have children like, you know, Ken Scribner. (12:04–12:11)

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Asserts that Texas has repeatedly implemented tax cuts to become business-friendly.

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Ramon Romero Jr.

“Only $126 went to an average homeowner [from the tax cuts].”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 05:05-05:20
“33% of that franchise tax went to people outside of Texas.”
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“We knew that we needed somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 to 600 million dollars [for pre-K].”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 06:07-06:12
“We, as Democrats were told, go see what you can do with $100 million [for pre-K].”
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“Yes.”
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“I certainly would not have spent $800 million on border security.”
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“Here we have a senator who says that [border security funding] needs to be closer to $3 billion.”
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“Absolutely.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 06:50-06:51
“Property values continue to rise and rise and rise. Yet we've given $9 billion in tax cuts since 1997.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 11:55-12:02
“In the meantime, working class families still continue to struggle.”
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“When you talk about fast growth and the burden that comes with fast growth, look at the amount of capital improvement bond packages within…”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 12:34-12:43
“As a state, we're funding transportation on our highways.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 13:01-13:05
“We're having to lower our standards. You know, we lowered our standards. You know, now we're so proud that 90% of our kids are graduating…”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 18:45-18:58
“I believe that after years of lack of funding, proper funding, we still rank at the bottom of the nation in terms of how we fund our…”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 19:12-19:22
“Less than 10% of Hispanics, Latinos that enter a four-year university graduate while their white counterparts graduate over 50, almost 60%.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 19:35-19:45
“What we're doing wrong in the schools that are the poorest, in the schools that are generally people of color or persons of color in those…”
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“Redistricting has created a lot of this mess.”
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“There'd be less people at the emergency room if more people qualified and we expanded Medicaid.”
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“County after county after county came into the County Affairs Committee this year and approved 1115 waivers.”
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“We're pulling money down from the Affordable Care Act. It's just not in the name of Obamacare.”
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“20% of our population doesn't have health care.”
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“We have set our sights on Washington. And everything out of Washington is bad.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 28:27-28:31
“We spent $800 million on border security.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 28:38-28:43
“The numbers translate to over $2 million per DPS apprehension.”
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“The general consensus of Texas doesn't like [open carry].”
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“People go up and shoot up police stations and they know that there's, you know, guns inside the police station.”
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“Boston still had the opportunity to opt out as a city.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 32:36-32:39
“Now we have open carry in these large cities, right? Yeah. We're the testing grounds.”
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“The Republican Party is saying at this point that Donald Trump is the best that we can offer from our side.”
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“Unintended consequences due to. Due to tax cuts. Look at Southwest Petroleum's lawsuit right now.”
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“We've given tax cut after tax cut, and we didn't realize that the lawyers were going to divide that and, you know, turn that that language…”
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“I think that, you know, you can start with equal pay for women as an example. It was absolutely something that Wendy Davis campaigned on…”
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“Women should not make 25 to almost 30% less than men for the same job.”
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“You go into my side of town and you see the schools on my side of town. Don't tell me that you're getting the best education.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 42:20-42:25
“And then you go outside and there's no grocery stores. You've got convenience stores. There's no jobs anywhere around. The jobs that are…”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 42:24-42:32
“Families, especially brown Latino families are getting pulled over by DPS officers because they're brown.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 47:57-48:05
“Latinos are being pulled over and they shouldn't be getting pulled over on the way to school, making their kids late.”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 48:15-48:21
“We shouldn't be doing a federal job and certainly not spending money that could have been used so much more wisely and giving that education…”
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“It should be that this should be the federal position to take to secure our borders.”
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“There is probably no job more noble than being a teacher for our Texas students.”
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“Fund and class size is terribly important.”
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“We don't track our guns. And how many of those guns are going across the border? And now we're worried about the cartels and we're the ones…”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 58:21-58:29
“The reality is in Texas, it's far too easy to get a gun.”
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“At some point, we're going to take seriously the fact that you can get a gun at a gun show without an id.”
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“We also, last year we voted to allow, you know, tax free day for buying your guns, putting more of a load on those that are doing the…”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 58:57-59:07
“Now it's tax free weekend, so people are going to. We're going to have to give them that gun even though we haven't done it. Proper…”
A Conversation with Goldman, Klick & Romero | Uploaded March 30, 2016 | 59:09-59:18
“Do you believe then that we shouldn't know who buys a weapon in the state of Texas? Well, at a gun show. So someone walks into a gun show…”
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