rate and imposing a 25% minimum tax on wealthy americans. here with a look at the coming showdown in congress our wall street journal columnists khan henninger and mary anastasia o grady and editorial board member kyle peterson. so, dan, i couldn t help but notice that the new york times this week portrayed the president s budget as moving to the center. is that how you see it? [laughter] whoa. well, it may be where the new york times describes the center. no, that budget moves smartly to the left. i mean, senator elizabeth warren was beside herself over all the tax increases on the wealthy. she just thought it was great. you know, this is really a peter pan judgment, paul. you just spread pixie dust everywhere, and the economy takes off. we could make fun of it, we say it s not going to happen because of the republican house. i could make a couple points about in this. one, if perchance, this is a campaign speech concern a campaign budget, there s no question about it, a
action towards mexico suggests that the establishment in washington has lost patience and they re getting ready to default to the answer of taking military action. it would not solve the problem, but with i think we re going to have to start facing the possibility that something like this could happen. not under the biden administration, i think they feel they ve got enough on their plate with russia and china, but clearly pressure is building for taking unilateral action. what about the idea of labeling them foreign terrorist os? what would that free the united states government to do? some people argue it would allow the government to go more against the cartels in this country. and i think, or you know, seriously, if we want to try to address this problem, we should ask ourselves why drugs go from brownsville, texas, to seattle or new york with no violence. and the reason is because we don t confront the contribution system in this country. we want the mexicans to jump in
stolen, we need to do something about it right then and people gave money them and trump kept it. hasn t spent the money fighting the 2020 election. he hasn t spent the money for candidates in 2021. he mostly kept it and spent .at his own property. the contrast between the way, the languid way he used the money, self-enriching way he used the money and the way he raised the money is striking. the way he has transformed the money into private revenue for his businesses, from office space at trump tower to use of his jet to even billing for trump water, so i don t think, correct me if i m wrong, you are an attorney, but i am sure you have interviewed many as part of your reporting here. why is he able to use these political donations even though he s not currently running? well, it is a good question because i thought, you know, not knowing much about the political contribution system, i thought, well, this can t be possible, but it is. the kind of pac that he is using, this sort of
for? look, if you re going to grow government faster than people s income growth, then you have to pear pare it back. medicaid ought to be turned into a defined contribution system where states decide it and where you lower the growth rates of spending. the eda, i mean, have a thorough review of all of these agencies that have never been reviewed. you can pare back spending, just the allow attrition to take place. we could shrink the government workforce just by 10% by people retiring and not rehiring. there s a lot of things we could do in terms of procurement reform. we need a leader that has a practical experience in doing this. i did this in tallahassee, florida. i turned the place upsidedown. we shrunk the government by 11%.