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David Schweikert: “We have set up the first generation US history to be poor…”

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

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Final September Floor Speech - David Schweikert

Published | Video Starts at 23:32

My little boy, when he turns 21, 22, every tax in the United States has to be doubled. Every tax has to be doubled just to maintain baseline spending. Absolutely immoral. What we're doing. We have set up the first generation US history to be poor [than] their parents. doesn't have to be that way. But this place needs a revolution in the way it thinks because you can't keep being absolute dumb. You can't keep doing it the way we're doing it. (23:32–23:37)

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Asserts that the current generation is set to be poorer than their parents.

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