Wealth & Money Quote by Peter Camejo

Fairness is the sugar; discipline is the medicine. Camejo packs both into a tight, campaign-ready couplet: a “fair tax” that needs to be “re-adjust[ed],” paired with the moral badge of being “fiscally responsible.” The line works because it tries to fuse two constituencies that are usually played against each other in American politics: people who hear “fair” as redistribution and people who hear “responsible” as restraint.

“Re-adjust” is the tell. It’s technocratic enough to sound pragmatic, vague enough to dodge the blood sport of naming winners and losers. Taxes don’t get “adjusted” in real life; they get raised on someone, lowered for someone else, and redefined through loopholes. By choosing a soft verb, Camejo signals reform without triggering the reflexive anti-tax alarm.

The repetition of “must” and “have to” isn’t just emphasis; it’s a bid to reframe taxes as obligation rather than preference, almost like maintaining infrastructure or honoring debts. That matters in a country where taxation is routinely cast as theft or punishment. He’s trying to reclaim the language: taxes as civic membership dues, not partisan weapons.

Contextually, Camejo’s career (including his high-profile runs in left politics) complicates the “Businessman” label. He’s borrowing the credibility of the boardroom - numbers, balance sheets, sobriety - to sell a fairness agenda to skeptical moderates, while reminding the left that ideals without budgets get dismissed as fantasy. The subtext: justice and solvency aren’t rivals; they’re a package deal, whether voters admit it or not.