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David Schweikert: “It creates about 150, 160 billion of additional tax receipts…”

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

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David Schweikert's Congressional Address on U.S. Debt, Healthcare, and Economic Policy Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 35:29

We educate people, we send them home to come and then we send them home with their degrees from the American universities to compete with us. That sparked an idea and then we got our economists to do the modeling. It creates about 150, 160 billion of additional tax receipts in the 10 year window. But in the second 10 year window, it explodes. So we wrote an immigration reform bill moving the American immigration system to a talent based system. (35:29–35:35)

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Asserts that a proposed immigration reform would generate $150-160 billion in additional tax receipts over ten years.

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