Should we set $1.5 billion of it on fire at a time of real economic uncertainty? And then what that would do to our state overall, the budget picture in the next couple of years is It would turn that surplus into a $2.9 billion deficit. Deficit, deficit. This could be a future deficit. Correct. And so, you know, the challenge for me is when I was first elected to the assembly, it was 2009. (04:31–04:36)
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