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Talarico for Texas, Taxes and Cost of Living
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We lived in a little apartment in East Austin. There wasn’t room for a nursery, so I slept in a crib in her closet. She was so proud of that closet. She decorated it with pictures and toys — no one was gonna tell her it wasn’t a nursery!</span></p>
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<p><b>As a former public school teacher, I know what it’s like to work early mornings and late nights in an underpaid, stressful job. </b><span style="font-weight: 400">I know what it’s like to be crushed by student debt and medical debt. And I know what it’s like to feel like the system isn’t working for you.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">We need a government that serves working people instead of giant corporations. And we need a government that rolls back the barriers keeping us from living the American dream — whether they’re unnecessary tariffs or outdated zoning regulations.</span></p>
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<p><b>As a legislator, I have fought for working Texans, I’ve stood up to billionaire mega-donors and special interests, and I’ve worked to cut bureaucratic red tape — passing major legislation to lower the cost of prescription drugs, housing, and childcare. </b><span style="font-weight: 400">Now I’m ready to take this fight to the U.S. Senate.</span></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I sat down with 20 undecided Texas voters on <a href="https://twitter.com/jubileemedia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JubileeMedia</a>’s Surrounded.</p>
<p>One of them brought up “welfare queens” so I told him the truth:</p>
<p>The biggest welfare queens in this country are the giant corporations that don’t pay a penny in federal taxes. <a href="https://t.co/avxyjUKNJx">pic.twitter.com/avxyjUKNJx</a></p>
<p>— James Talarico (@jamestalarico) <a href="https://twitter.com/jamestalarico/status/2000290042191966668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">WE DID IT!! We capped the out-of-pocket cost of insulin in Texas! </p>
<p>Our bill is headed to the Governor’s desk for a signature! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/txlege?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#txlege</a> <a href="https://t.co/EMe4zfph4n">https://t.co/EMe4zfph4n</a></p>
<p>— James Talarico (@jamestalarico) <a href="https://twitter.com/jamestalarico/status/1396887193445097480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Texans pay TWICE as much as Canadians for their prescription drugs. </p>
<p>But that’s about to change.</p>
<p>The Texas House just passed my bill to import cheap prescription drugs from Canada. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/txlege?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#txlege</a> <a href="https://t.co/DsC6N3sGLN">pic.twitter.com/DsC6N3sGLN</a></p>
<p>— James Talarico (@jamestalarico) <a href="https://twitter.com/jamestalarico/status/1646196082488098823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Childcare is now more expensive than college tuition.</p>
<p>I just passed major legislation with Sen. West and Rep. Button to bring down childcare costs for working families.</p>
<p>This is what pro-family policy looks like. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/txlege?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#txlege</a> <a href="https://t.co/840rQiXjdd">pic.twitter.com/840rQiXjdd</a></p>
<p>— James Talarico (@jamestalarico) <a href="https://twitter.com/jamestalarico/status/1659672966844633088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">More and better housing for Texans is on the way. </p>
<p>Working together with House author Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/jamestalarico?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JamesTalarico</a>, today we passed my Senate Bill 2835, clearing away old codes and outdated modes, allowing for the construction of small-footprint apartment buildings with new materials and… <a href="https://t.co/hvr13geoY2">pic.twitter.com/hvr13geoY2</a></p>
<p>— Nathan Johnson (@NathanForTexas) <a href="https://twitter.com/NathanForTexas/status/1927435001026523579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/jamestalarico?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JamesTalarico</a>: If you rob young people of the ability to afford their first home, you are really locking them out of the American Dream. I don’t think older generations understand the damage being done to young people all over the country <a href="https://t.co/2KH9mpSL1y">pic.twitter.com/2KH9mpSL1y</a></p>
<p>— Team Talarico (@TeamTalaricoHQ) <a href="https://twitter.com/TeamTalaricoHQ/status/1989121389819801722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">DC politicians like John Cornyn promised to lower costs, fight for families, and drain the swamp.</p>
<p>Now they’re trying to gut healthcare for millions to cut taxes for their donors — even shutting down the government to do it.</p>
<p>If you feel conned, you have a place in this campaign. <a href="https://t.co/c52ofi8Nlc">pic.twitter.com/c52ofi8Nlc</a></p>
<p>— James Talarico (@jamestalarico) <a href="https://twitter.com/jamestalarico/status/1973212444739936269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">16 million children are about to go hungry because DC Republicans refuse to fund SNAP.</p>
<p>If they can spend $3 trillion on tax cuts for rich people, they can afford to feed hungry kids. <a href="https://t.co/v5d54pRNbt">pic.twitter.com/v5d54pRNbt</a></p>
<p>— James Talarico (@jamestalarico) <a href="https://twitter.com/jamestalarico/status/1985452875716444451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Elon Musk is about to become the first trillionaire.</p>
<p>The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on earth isn't because we can't feed the poor — it's because we can't satisfy the rich.</p>
<p>We should tax trillionaires out of existence. <a href="https://t.co/N05ls8gmB2">pic.twitter.com/N05ls8gmB2</a></p>
<p>— James Talarico (@jamestalarico) <a href="https://twitter.com/jamestalarico/status/1997425202200989721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/jamestalarico?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JamesTalarico</a>: I got elected by flipping a Trump district. I've been able to pass bills to help bring down the cost of childcare, bring down the cost of housing, bring down prescription drug costs, and pass the first-ever cap on insulin in Texas history <a href="https://t.co/eirSqbBAuL">pic.twitter.com/eirSqbBAuL</a></p>
<p>— Team Talarico (@TeamTalaricoHQ) <a href="https://twitter.com/TeamTalaricoHQ/status/1998941350180372481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Earlier this month, as SNAP benefits were frozen and many Americans struggled to feed their families, our wonderful volunteers stepped up at local food banks across Texas, packaging tens of thousands of meals. </p>
<p>This is what our campaign is all about: supporting our neighbors. <a href="https://t.co/yeDOtNyxee">pic.twitter.com/yeDOtNyxee</a></p>
<p>— Team Talarico (@TeamTalaricoHQ) <a href="https://twitter.com/TeamTalaricoHQ/status/1995291765507489991?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 1, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<li><b>Create a fairer tax system: </b><span style="font-weight: 400">Make giant corporations and the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share of taxes. (That way, we can cut taxes for working families and small businesses.)</span>
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<li><b>Make billionaires pay their fair share in taxes </b><span style="font-weight: 400">— including by imposing a higher tax on their income and capital gains and ending the dubious “buy, borrow, die” loopholes that billionaires use to grow untaxed wealth.</span></li>
<li><b>Make corporations pay their fair share in taxes </b><span style="font-weight: 400">— including by raising the corporate tax rate</span> <span style="font-weight: 400">(it has fallen by HALF since the mid-1980s!), ending the “carried interest” tax loopholes that allow hedge funds to avoid paying billions that they owe, and rolling back other extreme tax breaks that allow the largest corporations to pay $0 in federal income taxes.</span></li>
<li><b>Raise the tax on corporate stock buybacks</b><span style="font-weight: 400">, which corporations use to artificially inflate their stock prices instead of making investments in research and development or to pay their employees the full value of their work.</span></li>
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<li><b>Increase wages for workers, not CEOs: </b><span style="font-weight: 400">Raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, and incentivize CEOs to pay fair wages by creating a special tax on corporations that pay their top executives more than 250 times their median worker’s salary.</span></li>
<li><b>Ensure Americans can afford to retire: </b><span style="font-weight: 400">Fight tooth and nail against attacks on Medicare and Social Security, ensure the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share into Social Security by eliminating the tax cap on those earning over $400,000 a year, and incentivize employer-sponsored pensions.</span></li>
<li><b>Expand tax credits that support working families: </b><span style="font-weight: 400">Expand the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit, which reward hard work, offset the cost of raising children, and can save the government money over the long-term.</span></li>
<li><b>Lower health care and prescription drug costs:</b><span style="font-weight: 400"> Create a federal public health insurance option that competes with private insurance, institute caps on out-of-pocket costs for lifesaving drugs, reinstate the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s enhanced premium tax credits, increase price transparency and Medicare’s negotiating power to ensure fair pricing, incentivize the development and approvals of generics, and regulate pharmacy benefit managers to ensure they’re not up-charging patients.</span></li>
<li><b>Lower housing costs: </b><span style="font-weight: 400">Stop corporate landlords from engaging in market manipulation to artificially hike rents, ban Wall Street from buying up housing stock to enrich wealthy investors while making it harder for families to afford homes, expand the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, repeal outdated red tape that hinders the construction of housing, support legislation to lower property insurance costs, and create a federal task force charged with helping communities use quality, cost-effective options like factory-built “modular” homes to speed up construction timelines.</span></li>
<li><b>Lower grocery costs: </b><span style="font-weight: 400">Stand up to attacks against SNAP and WIC, increase oversight into mergers and acquisitions that artificially jack up prices, remove tariffs on produce that can’t be grown in the United States, and reduce barriers to entry for new grocery providers to increase market competition.</span></li>
<li><b>Lower energy costs: </b><span style="font-weight: 400">Require AI data centers to pay for their own energy infrastructure updates so those costs aren’t passed on to consumers, diversify our energy sources to drive down costs, expand the Energy Star program that educates consumers about energy-efficient products, and </span><span style="font-weight: 400">modernize the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program’s disbursement formula to ensure that hot climate states — like Texas — receive equitable funds to help families with utility costs.</span></li>
<li><b>Repeal the Trump tariffs: </b><span style="font-weight: 400">Repeal the Trump tariffs that are making everything — from groceries to cars to clothing — more expensive.</span></li>
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<li><b>Reduced prescription drug costs </b><span style="font-weight: 400">by capping insulin </span><span style="font-weight: 400">co-pays at $25 a month</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> in Texas, allowing Texas to import </span><span style="font-weight: 400">cheaper prescription drugs from Canada</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> at reduced costs, increasing transparency around </span><span style="font-weight: 400">Big Pharma’s price gouging </span><span style="font-weight: 400">tactics, and establishing a </span><span style="font-weight: 400">prescription drug savings program</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> for uninsured Texans.</span></li>
<li><b>Lowered housing costs </b><span style="font-weight: 400">by replacing </span><span style="font-weight: 400">outdated regulations</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> to increase the supply of apartments and condos, establishing Texas’ first-ever </span><span style="font-weight: 400">Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program</span><span style="font-weight: 400">, and providing tax relief on </span><span style="font-weight: 400">low-income housing construction</span><span style="font-weight: 400">.</span></li>
<li><b>Lowered child care costs</b><span style="font-weight: 400"> by establishing property </span><span style="font-weight: 400">tax exemptions for child care providers</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> and increasing the supply of high-quality centers.</span></li>
<li><b>Lowered property taxes </b><span style="font-weight: 400">by voting to </span><span style="font-weight: 400">increase the school district residence homestead tax exemption</span><span style="font-weight: 400">, </span><span style="font-weight: 400">increase the business personal property tax exemption</span><span style="font-weight: 400">, and </span><span style="font-weight: 400">provide additional exemptions for elderly and disabled homeowners.</span><b></b></li>
<li><b>Lowered higher education costs </b><span style="font-weight: 400">by </span><span style="font-weight: 400">establishing tuition and fee exemptions</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> and a </span><span style="font-weight: 400">public junior college state finance program</span><span style="font-weight: 400">.</span></li>
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