During a Texas House committee hearing on school choice, James Talarico asks whether Elon Musk, a Texas resident, could apply for the funds. The answer: he would be eligible. Talarico says vouchers for eight of Musk's children under school age would top $80,000 a year, about $1.2 million from pre-K through senior year, and tells the chairman, as the bill's author, he could limit it to middle-class and working-class families.
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- Who
- James Talarico
- Where
- floor - Texas House debate on a school voucher bill
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- The Democrats · watch the full video from this moment
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- 52 seconds, unedited within the cut
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I have not. Elon Musk is a Texas resident. So would he theoretically be eligible to apply for these funds? I'm guessing he's probably priority number four. But he would be eligible. Yes. It was just announced that Elon has fathered his 14th child. I looked into this, eight of them are under school age. So let's say he gets a voucher for each of those eight children. That's over $80 ,000 a year in taxpayer funds more than what most teachers make. So if you sent them to a private school from pre -K to senior year, that's a total of $1 .2 million in taxpayer funds for Elon Musk, theoretically. Chairman, you're the author of this bill. You could limit it to middle class and working class families. If you wanted to, Milton Friedman, you mentioned, has an ideological commitment to privatization.
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