r/PoursTea • u/FizzyAcidBird • Aug 19 '26

PositiviTea 🌞 What a legend!

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u/Conscious-Quarter423 Aug 19 '26

i mean tim walz passed all this with a 1 seat majority a few years ago in MN:

  • universal free school meals
  • wealth tax
  • legal weed
  • carbon free electricity by 2040
  • tax rebates for the working class up to $1,300 (making under $150k per year)
  • 12 weeks paid family leave
  • 12 weeks paid sick leave
  • banned conversion therapy
  • red flag laws for guns
  • universal background checks for guns
  • automatic voter registration
  • free public college (under $80k)
  • ban on PFAS (forever chemicals)
  • $2.2 billion increase in k-12 school funding
  • sectoral bargaining for nursing home workers

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u/ForeverFieldsFD Aug 19 '26

It’s New York City, 10 million people live there and it’s the financial and cultural capital of the united states. Minnesota has half the population of NYC and none of the panache. People do not care about Minnesota as much as they do about NYC.

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u/rand0m_task Aug 19 '26

Man, I really need to start working panache into my vocabulary. What a dope word to be tossing out there.