David Schweikert: “Our spending at 31.9% [of GDP].”

“When we've had high tax, marginal tax rates, low marginal tax rates, our average is actually, and they have the model actually going up to 17.9 near the end of the next 30 years. But we also have Our spending at 31.9% [of GDP]. What's the chance we get anywhere near the end of this without this economy coming, collapsing, without the people we need to borrow money from saying, yeah, we're not loaning to the United States government anymore.” (26:23–26:30)

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