less than 20 miles from work, gps has it at 18.8 miles. 82.3 miles for a doughnut stop and the car on a full charge against only 25 miles. mind you, that car lists for $46,500. loaded with taxpayer subsidies and offered with a taxpayer bailout, you guys. you tailgate! [ laughter ] you re one of those tailgaters! i literally videotaped that in the tunnel. a little background, first day through, into the tunnel, it switched over from electric to gas. i said, no way. i fully charged it again, same thing happened and i videotaped it the second time around. juan, 25 miles to a full charge, 46,500 bucks, and billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, loans to the company. yeah. he s like yeah. time to pull the plug on the volt? i ve gotten terrible
problems. we have to first of all become accountable to the american people. number two, we have to learn to control what we can control. number three, we have to cut what isn t helping anybody today. if we don t do all three of those things. and we don t meet unthose premises, having an agreement to say you have an agreement if it doesn t solve the problem which was my difficulty and why i left. we didn t solve the problem. if you want to solve our country s problem, the federal government has to have a take out of the gdp less than 18.8%. you agree? yes how? that mean the federal government has to become a quarter small are than what it is today. it is twice as big as it was 10 years ago that is not hard to do what is hard to do is get the consensus us is to go
problems. we have to first of all become accountable to the american people. number two, we have to learn to control what we can control. number three, we have to cut what isn t helping anybody today. if we don t do all three of those things. and we don t meet unthose premises, having an agreement to say you have an agreement if it doesn t solve the problem which was my difficulty and why i left. we didn t solve the problem. if you want to solve our country s problem, the federal government has to have a take out of the gdp less than 18.8%. you agree? yes how? that mean the federal government has to become a quarter small are than what it is today. it is twice as big as it was 10 years ago that is not hard to do what is hard to do is get the consensus us is to go
get out there and do something real what is it? guest: cut spending, and cap spending long term and get a balanced budget. i cosponsored a cap act that does not go far enough. we need to put ourselves on a path to limit government spending, the size of the federal government to long term revenue which is 18.8 percent and i would love to see us pass a constitutional amendment that also limits the size of government to long-term revenue which is 18.8 percent. those three things would send the signal of a credible spending plan that washington has gotten serious and once we send that credible signal, businesses will be enthused about spending. right now capital is on strike. neil: senator, thank you very much. guest: thank you for having me on. neil: online flings, solar
that s reasonable, is it not? come on. let s bring in right now, we have over at the white house, we re going to be able to talk to the director of the national economic council, jegene spurli. you ve been listening. nice to have you. thank you for dropping by. you ve been listening to this discussion and it seems like there may be a middle ground on tax. a lot of people don t understand why warren buffet pays 14% in taxes and people making over $500,000 spend and average of 18.8% effective tax rate. can we get a lot of more revenue by closing these loopholes for the wealthiest americans? that s one thing the bipartisan tax commission, the bowl bowles-simpson commission called for. virtually every bipartisan deficit reduction process we have seen has said we should be able to find ways we can reduce tax expenditures enough we can