Leave Social Security, Medicare and interest alone, but all other outlays increased by population growth and inflation is your basic control. If you do that, Your budget would be somewhere between 5.5 and $6.5 trillion, way below where we are right now, in excess of 7 trillion. So again, I agree with your previous guess. We have a spending problem. I agree with Scott Besson who said we don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. (01:18–01:26)
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Asserts that the federal budget should be between $5.5 and $6.5 trillion, compared to the current excess of $7 trillion.
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