Tim Walz: “I so enjoy listening to the eloquence and thoughtfulness of this. The gentleman did sum it up about the priorities, and…”

“I so enjoy listening to the eloquence and thoughtfulness of this. The gentleman did sum it up about the priorities, and both gentlemen from Kentucky, Florida, and New York focusing on education and seeing it as an investment. Of course, being a high school teacher, every chance I get to get into a classroom, I jump at it. And Monday I had the chance to teach a government class in a small town actually in the area served by the Lewis and Clark Rural Water Project. And I will just leave you this, and you can decide, again, what sense does this make. The teacher was very excited about their first-year teaching job. They started out making $28,500 a year. Because of the decisions that have been made here and the decisions that have been made in St. Paul, the insurance for that family for him to provide for his wife and children was $14,100. So before taxes, our schoolteachers are making $14,400. If you take taxes out of this, we probably have a violation of minimum wage that's happening. That's the decisions that have been made. But I go back to, once again, the President is not talking about that. The President is asking for how can we make tax cuts permanent for millionaires, and this Nation needs to decide what is our next generation going to do if we're not willing to invest.”