On the recordFebruary 28, 2023
Tonight, we are going to try to do sort of the continuation on the theme, but we are going to actually end it up with a dozen or so solutions. I know the Parliamentarian said I can't hold my 8-month-old, but I wanted to prove the 8-month-old was real. Look, there are some realities I keep coming behind these microphones to try to explain, and I continue to be just enraged, particularly to my brothers and sisters on the left, by the avoidance of the math. My little boy, who is 8 months old, in 25 years, according to CBO, his taxes will have to be doubled. Corporate taxes will have to be doubled. Tariffs will have to be doubled. Everything has to double just to maintain baseline services. That is the math. How many discussions have you heard here even today, over the last month, the reality of the math? The math will always win. Once again, I am going to walk through some of what is really going on. For everyone here who says, ``We are going to balance in 10 years,'' okay, I can do it, but you have to understand the amount of bloodletting that is required to actually make that math work. The actual structural problem is actually not on the left, not on the right; it is demographics, something we are terrified of. What the President did in his State of the Union speech was just unconscionable when he basically used Social Security and Medicare as props for his reelection instead of telling the truth. In a decade, the Medicare trust fund is gone.…
