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Care of veterans and increasing school choice. all of that without adding to the currently projected fy 2018 deficit. the topline defense discretionary number is $603 billion, that is a 50 for billion dollar increase, one of the largest increases in history. it is also a number that allows the president to keep his president to undo the military sequester, topline nondefense number will be $452 billion, as a $54 billion savings, the largest proposed reduction since the early years of the reagan ...

Care of vets and increasing school choice. all of that without adding to the currently projected fy 2018 deficit. the top line defense discretionary number is $603 billion, thats a $54 billion increase, its also the number that allows the president to keep his promise to undue the military sequester. the top line nondefense number will be $462 billion, thats a $54 billion savings. its the largest proposed reduction since the early years of the reagan administration. the reductions in nondefense ...

Im not going to respond. that would be a sexist sort of response to say, oh, my goodness she deserves to be treated as aggressively because shes only a woman. i dont say that about anybody. okay its a woman versus man interview. i think she has tough questions, he will ask tough questions, i have to be prepared. >> thats good to hear. on those tough questions, lets talk about defense spending. when you first came to the senate you proposed decreasing defense spending by about $164 billion, and t...

They say in their cell phone is none of the governments business. >> i agree with that too. so if you become the president of the united states how would rand paul balance the budget? >> wed cut spending. absolutely you have to cut spending across the board. im a big fan of the penny plan. cut 1% across the board. your budget balances in about five years. >> all right. so you do that that means medicare, social security, defense, everything. >> yeah, the thing is you dont have to be 1% of anythi...

Have to be 1% of anything if youre 2% something else. i introduced a budget that would balance in five years but spent above the military sequester. so you can say that, well defending the country is a priority, well cut 10% of something, or like in this case i would cut 100% of corporate welfare. every last bit of it. >> all right. lets talk about the top five things if youre elected president -- you guys want to elect him president? [ cheers and applause ] >> the top five agenda item -- >> pre...

Now, for the record, only 19 categories of the pew polled are discretionary, others are categories where congressional republicans want to see reduced spending. cuts to entitlement programs, medicare, medicaid, that is what john boehner wanted from the white house in exchange from the tax rest in the grand bargain. that is a top priority. and why if you listen to the debate very closely, if you listen to what john boehner is actually saying you may hear president obama talking a lot about his al...

Like that. we wouldnt hold its hand in public, we tell it all the time, we want a little bit of space, but damn if we dont want to keep it around. a majority of people said they actually want to increase spending in two category. 53% want to spend more on veterans benefits, and 60% want to spend more on education. education, which by the way, gets hit pretty hard by the sequester. now, maybe we need to change or relationship status rather than our policies. because the american people actually s...

Benefits, 73 dont want to cut defense. 74%, dont cut energy, 76% dont want to cut environmental protection or agriculture. 77% dont want to cut scientific research or anti-terrorism defenses. 81%, 81% dont want to cut roads and infrastructure. 82% dont want to cut medicare or anti-crime programs. 83% dont want to cut food and drug programs. 87% dont want to cut social security, 89% dont want to cut education, and 91% dont want to cut veterans benefits. and there, in one poll is the republicans p...

Government. because of that, there is an unwiliness with the house and leadership of the republican party to do anything along those lines, because that will be sold as a retreat to be really fiscally conservative. we saw that under george w. bush, laying the seeds of the tea party. >> but wasnt what happened in the previous decade, they made a bunch of decisions around spending because they wouldnt touch taxes, and blew up the deficit, that was at least part of the narrative. underneath that is...

And making a 500 billion cut is not necessarily a bad way to reduce the deficit. when the democrats talk about tax reform and say they want to replace the sequester and almost all the defense cuts with revenues, what they are saying specifically is they want to limit itemized deductions for the rich. now those words, that is kind of policy term. doesnt mean much to most people. but when you hear it, this is what you should hear politicians say. they want to limit tax policies, to donate the char...