Rep. Tim Burchett
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I would grind it and then sell it.
Well, we had a blizzard that year.
So we did about, seems like we did 30,000 tons that first year.
And they paid me around, it was under 20, but just say $20 a ton.
So I was making $600,000.
And this was in 91 or 92.
I was been out of college for a little while, worked in the business world.
And, um,
I literally, I would have been a million, I became very wealthy, but I had to grind it.
So it cost me about a half a million dollars.
So I was still clearing $100,000, living at home with my family, who's public educators.
So $100,000 was pretty righteous bucks, but then I sold it.
I sold it for, I think it was $20 a pickup truckload.
So I was selling between, I would sell 4,000 to 5,000 pickup truckloads a month.
So, I mean, I was raking it in.
It was all cash.
And I reported everything.
I had accountants.
I made sure that I was crazy honest.
I gave half of it away to churches and schools.