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I'm happy to first.

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Listen, I just think that um the reality is
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the free markets solve problems better than
government does.

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Oh, why is that?

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And I'm not saying that we need to totally do

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away with public schools, I think that would
be coolish.

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We have a constitutional obligation to educate
our children.

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Okay, so what you're doing right there is you
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say why you believe that the free market
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priority.

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Uh, but he knows the next thing that's gonna
come

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up.

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Obviously, the Democrats are gonna say, hey,
look, you're about

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to defund our public education system entirely
because it's already

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defunded.

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What he's doing right now is trying to protect
himself

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from that next move.

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I think there's lots of ways we can do that

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a lot better, and I'm for a lot of those.

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Pay teachers more, maybe have a few fewer
administrators.

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But the competition of the Okay, so he's
saying have

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more school teachers and less administrators.

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Again, he's trying to rehearse the concept of
the defense

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saying, oh well, I don't want to completely do
away

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with public schools.

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The problem is this though.

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The school of voucher scam he's pushing for
the funds

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our public schools in its entirety, and
they're already underfunded

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as it is.

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We can't get more teachers.

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We can't we've lost 40% of our school staff in

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the past two years due to underfunding.

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So it's completely nonsensical to think, oh,
we can uh

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do do better with our public schools as we
have

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it right now.

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No, they're underfunded.

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That's that's the whole problem right now with
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education system.

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But anyways, let's uh let let's let's move on.

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But the competition of a free market system
will help

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push that all in the right direction.

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No, well, will he explain why?

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And so I think by giving if you're paying
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you're and your kids are going to school,
you're essentially

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paying for that school and you should demand
better schools.

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Two points there.

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Um it's not as if you have kids in school,

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you pay taxes.

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We all pay taxes to it.

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Right now, I don't have uh a children.

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Uh I have no children, but I pay money into

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our public local public schools.

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It's because we as a community and invest in
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future.

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And our children are the future of this
country.

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Which is why if you don't even have children,
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still still pay taxes into your local public
schools.

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That's that's how it's always worked.

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That is that is how it has always worked since

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the dawn of time here. in the United States of

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America

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Now, to say that we should demand better of
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public schools, you can do that, but only for
our

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public schools, because in our public schools,
the school boards

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are elected officials.

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So you can take charge of the situation and
make

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sure that you have the best ISD uh board
members

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that you could possibly get by participating
in elections.

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You can't do that with a private school.

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You can only do that with a public school.

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So his program, there's lots of different uh
ways out

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there that um school choice programs are being
talked about,

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and the legislature will come up with you know
what

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they think is the best uh version of that.

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Um, no, let me stop it right there.

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There's only been one type of voucher program
being offered.

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It's one that sacrifices public education
funding.

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If they were serious about seriously wanting
to protect our

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public schools and implement a voucher program
in Texas, here

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in Texas, the eighth largest economy in the
world, we

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would use our massive surplus, which we do
have.

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We got money in the bank to pay for our

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public roads, our infrastructure, our schools,
or even a school

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voucher program if you wanted to use the
surplus, but

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they're not doing that.

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There's only one type of voucher scam offered,
just one,

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and it specifically takes money away from the
public schools.

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That is by design, and that's the only type of

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voucher program being offered in the
legislature.

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I can't consider and say that there's one
version better

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than another, but uh that'll be on the board
of

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the Texas House.

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But my opinion is generally speaking, is that
when you

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have a free market system, that innovation
drives a better

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end product, and that's going to benefit your
kids.

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Okay, and again, but is it he doesn't say why?

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He's not saying why is it that the
capitalistic structure

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would work better than this socialist-based
structure, which is what

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it is.

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So we've got public roads, that's a form of
socialism.

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We have public schooling, it's a form of
socialism.

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The reason we do that, the reason we have
public

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utilities is because for those certain parents
out there who

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have uh you know kids with special needs,
they're going

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to be able to get the attention they need to

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a public education system.

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The private school system completely will
throw away kids like

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that away because all these private schools
they don't have

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to accept your kids in if they don't want to.

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There's an entry exam for all of them.

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If you have a kid with special needs, you're
completely

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shafted.

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So the reality is that it public schools is a

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public utility that is offered to our
communities, paid for

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by the public as a public way for you to

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use and to utilize, and again, that you can
elect

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your elected school board officials too.

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This guy right here, he's just blatantly
stating that he

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thinks the free market will magically make
everything better, but

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he's not telling you why.

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He's just trying to scam you, folks.

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He's just trying to scam you, he's trying to
take

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away your public schools, a school voucher
program, and Texas

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will be the final nail on the coffin for our

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public education if it passes.