If we lower our tax rates--and believe me, there is a way to do this without losing revenue.
Let me start on the big picture here. We haven't solved the problem.
I just think it is important as we have this discussion to say, well, we have these points in history where the debt ran...
The reason this debt limit fight is coming is because when we have had great fiscal bipartisan agreements in the past...
This is not a Republican-Democrat thing; this is a math thing.
I remember running for Congress in 2002, and the number one issue for businesses and families was health care.
We had a problem to solve, and we ended up solving it alone.
The whole narrative in Washington, D.C. is every single dollar the government spends is bad.
We still are spending too much money.
It is also the fact that health inflation is getting out of control, it is running faster than everything else.
Clearly, a little tinkering isn't enough. We need a whole new approach.