But let me just pause for a second. If you are going to look at, let us say, a 50-year time period and let us see the benefit, why would you do a 10-year cost and a 50-year time period?
On the recordSeptember 26, 2018
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Lankford questions the logic of mismatched timeframes for costs and benefits.
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