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David Schweikert: “Just tax rich people will be fine. The tax cuts did all this…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 48:01

It's the hardest thing I have with many of my Democrat colleagues, and a number of them are very smart, but I think they've told a story that isn't true for so long that they've begun to believe it. You know, Just tax rich people will be fine. The tax cuts did all this damage. And none of that's mathematically true. And I'll sit down and show them. And I realize, I get this. Oh, those are interesting numbers. And five minutes later, they're in front of a television camera going back to their script. (48:01–48:12)

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Asserts that taxing the rich and blaming tax cuts for damage is not mathematically true.

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