James Lankford actually said...

If one side of the cost-benefit analysis is 20 years and the other side may go out 60, that is literally putting your thumb on the scale on one side and there is not a perception of fairness in between the two.

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Lankford discusses fairness in cost-benefit analysis over different time frames.

07/15/2015

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