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On the recordAugust 7, 2026
The vast majority of people understand that it makes no sense to say that we can’t have good roads and and great hospitals in rural places and we can’t have fully funded public schools at the exact same moment when the wealthiest people in the land are paying a lower tax rate than the nurses who work in those hospitals and the workers who pave those roads and the teachers who teach in their schools.
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Pete Buttigieg
Democratic · Indiana

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Encouraging canvassers to engage with voters.

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