It's just you set up a law saying if you qualify, you get X number of dollars. So it's on automatic pilot. And there's no cap on that spend. No, none. You qualify, you get it. So whatever. … About 5.1 [trillion in tax receipts]. … dollars. So again, total discretionary spending is about 1.7, but they've literally slid about a trillion dollars now ongoing of other mandatory, or what should be discretionary into what they call now other mandatory. (04:46–04:49)
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Asserts that the U.S. takes in approximately $5.1 trillion in tax receipts annually.
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