… place, the way the economy was booming, that you would have been able to pay off a lot of the debt. And that was the strategy. We didn't have Covid. We would have been paying off debt and we would have had [further tax reductions]. And don't forget by growth, the word growth is actually more important in a way because you could have the same debt, but if you doubled your growth, all of a sudden you're under levered. (51:22–51:26)
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Asserts that without COVID-19, his administration would have paid off national debt and reduced taxes further.
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