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David Schweikert: “18 cents of that, $1.39 borrowing is just interest.”

Featuring: David Schweikert, Republican | U.S. House, Arizona, District 1

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Final September Floor Speech - David Schweikert

Published | Video Starts at 14:17

Remember how before I was telling you, for every dollar we receive in taxation in the federal government, we spent $1.39. Here's one of the punchlines you need to have burned into your consciousness about. Let's come here. 18 cents of that, $1.39 borrowing is just interest. What did the interest bias. Now, look, there's some economists say, well, you put out interest, someone got a rate of return. So they're going to spend it. (14:17–14:25)

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Asserts that 18 cents of every $1.39 borrowed by the federal government is spent on interest.

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