The 3 problems we have left are taxes are too high. We still have a $5.5 trillion debt staring us in the face and the Social Security issue which we discussed in great detail earlier here in the hour. We have two pieces of legislation, and I know he is a cosponsor on these bills. The first is the Social Security Preservation Act, which I spent a lot of time earlier in the hour, that simply says that the money coming in for Social Security gets put into the Social Security trust fund. It is very much a common sense approach.
Mark Neumann: “The 3 problems we have left are taxes are too high. We still have a $5.5 trillion debt staring us in the face and the…”
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