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Primary if i get in it has to be someone who fuses together so its a foot in both camps a foot in the libertarian camp. >> what do you think the most important thing for this country is in your mind? >> the number one threat we have right now is our debt. $18 trillion debt. we borrow a million dollars a minute. you can say it is isis. you cant fight isis if you are bankrupt. we have to become a solvent nation. we cant keep piling debt after debt after debt. >> paul hit that message sharply reduc...

Other side. >> that they want to go to the rules committee, draft a bill to actually push the debt ceiling up for six weeks so that we dont careen and -- >> not a concession to us. >> so is your answer no? >> no, its not. thats not a concession to us, ashleigh. they say they want that. fine. put it on the floor. what concession is that to us? a solvent nation and a government thats operating on behalf of the people. they dont want that so theyre going to concede that to us. i dont think thats th...

In and would we be more of a solvent nation if we were to go down this way? >> well, there is some controversy about the latter but a value-added tax can raise a lot of revenue. its basically a tax on all spending like a sales tax collected at the state level but done in a way that is easier for the irs to enforce. my view is that theres no way were going to get spending down to the level where we can finance them with the current income tax and a value-added tax is more conducive to economic gr...