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Under your plan, would working families pay the same tax rate as billionaires? >> i would only do it if people are better off than they are now. i want people paying less taxes. if you think the last year we have numbers for the federal government took in the highest percentage of taxes from the economy since world war ii. and, yet they are going deep into debt. we have a spending problem in this country. it's not a tax problem in this country. and if you had something that was simple and transparent, not only would that be better for economic growth, it's also better to end the weaponization ...

They're worried they're not going to find a job. they're worried about the debt the country is in and inflation has gone up, that everything is more expensive. from their standpoint, they're looking at a country, and they're wondering how they're going to get through. and what we owe it to them is to get the economy back on track. the way we get the economy back on track is to first acknowledge that there is a spending problem in d.c. and it's not a republican problem or a democrat problem. both of them did that to us. you look at that $2.2 trillion covid stimulus bill that they passed with no...

Court date years from now. we can't keep functioning like that. we are a country of laws, the second we stop being a country of law, we give everything this country was founded on. [applause] >> you brought up the economy earlier, and i promise you we will get to it, i want to get to it now with you, molly. molly -- is a college student republican who says she will support any republican other then donald trump. ouyou knmy sonllaught is thing that every young indiviof cfitho trand nowsaying oh, we're go to look when fori a nd so they're worried they're not going to have to afford a pace to sta...

Increase? but as vice president, your administration spent more than any prior, $7.8 trillion added to the national debt. $3.5 trillion of that before covid. does that mean you are part of the spending problem? >> well, first off, thanks for the question and thanks for letting me respond in reference to our administration's record. i am incredibly proud of the record of the trump and pence administration. four short years we rebuilt the military. we revived our economy. we unleashed american energy. we appointed three conservatives to the supreme court that gave the american people a new begin...

Increase? but as vice president, your administration spent more than any prior, $7.8 trillion added to the national debt. $3.5 trillion of that before covid. does that mean you are part of the spending problem? >> well, first off, thanks for the question and thanks for letting me respond in reference to our administration's record. i am incredibly proud of the record of the trump and pence administration. four short years we rebuilt the military. we revived our economy. we unleashed american energy. we appointed three conservatives to the supreme court that gave the american people a new begin...