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Spoon and styrofoam cup. he's given america so much. he is a philanthropist now. he pays 150% -- he paid 50% in income tax and gives away his income. he has to pay a higher rate of income tax because in this country, if you give away 100%, they charge you 50% because something must be up. okay? so he's an amazing man. he told me, i called him a couple weeks ago and he said, "glenn, you have a zero base budget. you can't look at this budget. you want to fix this country, you have to go at zero. otherwise you drag all the bones from 30 years that nobody even understands anymore." >> i think that...

Spoon and styrofoam cup. he's given america so much. he is a philanthropist now. he pays 150% -- he paid 50% in income tax and gives away his income. he has to pay a higher rate of income tax because in this country, if you give away 100%, they charge you 50% because something must be up. okay? so he's an amazing man. he told me, i called him a couple weeks ago and he said, "glenn, you have a zero base budget. you can't look at this budget. you want to fix this country, you have to go at zero. otherwise you drag all the bones from 30 years that nobody even understands anymore." >> i think that...

We could eliminate the whole discretionary budget, close down all of the buildings here in still be running a deficit of a half trillion dollars a year because of mandatory spending and that's where the problem is. the budgets they send up to us lay this all on the backs of our military. and the war funding has come out of separate funding that we voted for each year. this budget that we're talking about, that's our base budget. that's the troops, the navy, the air force that has been protecting us since world war ii. they've kept the ceilings open around the world. they're just taken for gran...

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