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Katie Porter: That is right. Because cities and counties depend on the resources from State and local taxes to be able to pay for…

On the recordJune 29, 2021
That is right. Because cities and counties depend on the resources from State and local taxes to be able to pay for schools, to do a good job educating every single child, to make investments in roads and bridges, to pay first responders fair wages for putting their lives on the line to protect us. These are the kinds of policies that progressives champion, and we cannot ask our cities and our States and, most importantly, our fellow Americans to make those kinds of investments on the city, county, village, and local level, and then have the Federal Government treat them unfairly solely because they are trying to do right by each other in their community.
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Katie Porter
Democratic · California
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Jun 29, 2021

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