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David Schweikert: “So we are actually paying ourselves a SPIF, and we are still burning through our cash. That is why this board is up, to…”

On the recordFebruary 10, 2016
So we are actually paying ourselves a SPIF, and we are still burning through our cash. That is why this board is up, to show you how devastatingly different the number is from just this last August, how fast the numbers have moved. But even if we go back to 2011, when we were doing these floor presentations, we thought we were talking 2038. You would have been 65- plus for a few years.
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David Schweikert
Republican · Arizona
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Feb 10, 2016

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