Thank you, Mr. Speaker Pro Tem. This is one of those amendments. I just felt I needed to make a point here. And it's a brutal amendment. But we did some calculations. 57% of this appropriation within this piece of this budget goes to entities that have their own taxing authority. Okay, why do we care about that? Do realize every dime, every dime we are appropriating here, every dime we get to vote on, it lives on borrowed money. (00:14–00:25)
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