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

Congressman David Schweikert on political future, the numbers behind Social Security and Medicare

Published May 31, 2024 | Video Starts at 15:05

So think about this math. In about 15 years, the United States will have more deaths than births. Wow. And yet it's Today's taxpayer, today's worker sort of pays today's beneficiary. And it's fascinating. You're going to see a bunch of folks run for office this year and they're going to treat the public like fools. They're going to say things that aren't mathematically true. (15:05–15:12)

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Asserts that the current financial system relies on today's workers funding current beneficiaries.

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“I now have one of the best educated districts in America, one of the more prosperous and one of the more aspirational.”
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“The old classic hardworking, let's call them middle class, lower middle class, tradesmen, those things which used to lean Democrat, they had…”
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“If it's nine years from now the Social Security trust fund is empty and you double senior poverty, the average couple takes a 25% cut in…”
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“If you're under 30 years old right now, under 35, actually, the math says you will not live as prosperous as you and I have.”
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“All defense is borrowed money, all non-defense discretionary is borrowed money, and about a quarter of Medicare now is on borrowed money.”
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“100% of the debt from today through the next 30 years is interest, healthcare, mostly Medicare.”
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“If you tax maximize all the proposals, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, income taxes, you get about 1.5% of GDP.”
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“Non-defense discretionary, you might be able to pull 1% of GDP out and that's $300 billion.”
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“The burn rate just this fiscal year is almost 9% of the entire economy is borrowed money.”
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“Baseline borrowing looks like it's supposed to be parking in around 6% of the size of the economy.”
Congressman David Schweikert on political future, the numbers behind Social Security and Medicare | Uploaded May 31, 2024 | 10:15-10:23
“If you're close to borrowing $100,000 a second, $100,000 a second.”
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“Raising the cap 100% only covers like 48% of the [Social Security] shortfall.”
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“The driver of the debt right now is our demographics. Those of us who are baby boomers, we're moving into our earned benefits.”
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“In about 15 years, the United States will have more deaths than births.”
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“Last election cycle, I was functioning the only Republican, really, to survive even down to state legislation.”
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“Fertility rates are down to what, 1.62, you know, we're starting to collapse, actually, population wise.”
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“Technology, if used right, actually can bring us together.”
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“Right now it's being used to keep us separate and also keep us at each other's throats.”
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“We need to sort of rethink how we use technology and also how we block things that are propaganda, completely false.”
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“A lot of these things actually not Republican or Democrat, it's just complicated.”
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“Maybe we're at an inflection point in our society where people want to be treated like adults.”
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“Making society healthier, which actually crashes the cost of Health care crashes, the cost of government spending.”
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“Interest [on the national debt] this year will my math is about 1.2 trillion.”
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“Interest [on the national debt] the second biggest expense in the United States government.”
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“Social Security at 1,450,000,000, interest at 1.2 and then Medicare and Defense are down here at around 8,900 billion.”
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“70, 80% of that dollar you sent actually went to the text messaging fundraising firm.”
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