[capydick]

What we've been trying to do is help advise him a little bit to try to reduce the cost of the plan

What cost? Get rid of the EPA, turn the Education Dept over to the States, repeal the regulations that have hindered growth, allow the two trillion dollars of corporate offshore profits sitting in overseas banks to come home at a very small amnesty tax rate and enact the Penny Plan. This will more than cover the costs with a boom in economic activity, resulting in increased revenues to the Treasury.

[Syncopated]

Three-quarters of the country would not agree to disbanding the EPA or the DOE. Let's be realistic in our expectations. Disbanding the EPA and the DoE will not balance the budget, even if you account for a estimated savings to the economy drawing in greater receipts in tax revenue. The Laffer curve math doesn't add up. What we need is to disband SS as a retirement trust fund, privatize it and place that money into the market. Advance retirement age to 70, and 74 for new enrollees. Turn it into a mandatory pre-tax savings plan for John Doe (who doesn't save anymore), and minimize costs for managing the plans by providing option plans. Start an education campaign to help the consumer understand products available from the financial sector. Then, burn Medicare as it currently exists to the ground. Restructure it according to free market values. These are the two biggest expenses on our balance sheet, and the driver of our debt. The third being defense.