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David Schweikert: “People are really, really expensive in government.”

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

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Published June 12, 2024 | Video Starts at 14:35

Because what you're doing, that's morality. And it would make government less expensive. It would shrink the size of government. This is heresy and it's brutal. But the fact of the matter is People are really, really expensive in government. And one of the ways, if you're going to start cutting budgets, yet you still want efficiency, you want the morality of accessibility for the public. (14:35–14:39)

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Asserts that personnel costs are a significant expense in government.

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“The math says right now that child that's young today will be poorer than their parents.”
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