Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.

With us today is Daniel McAdams, our co-hosts, Daniel.

Good to see you today.

Good morning, Dr. Paul. How are you this morning?

Doing good, and the budget got passed. Everybody's happy.

You know, markets are returned in the normal chaos.

But it was a close vote, and there's a lot of rhetoric going around it.

So, you know, it's not that difficult to be cynical.

But it is, in a way, from the viewpoint of people in Washington, it's pretty cynical.

I mean, pretty

amazing that the Senate and the House agreed on something like this. But there are so many

options and so many things to do. And they have the tax cuts to deal with. So there's a lot of

mischief in there. But anyway, they couldn't get to vote yesterday,

but I guess it's early this morning. And they got up before breakfast and they went over there

and voted. And it's a big, wonderful tax bill, a beautiful pill, bill of a bill. So we'll see

what's happening. But I think that there's a lot of a bill. So we'll see what's happening.

But I think that there's a lot of good intentions and people would like to see things smoother.

They'd like to lower their taxes and quit the spending.

But, you know, the philosophy of the purpose of our government in particular that has developed over the last hundred years is such i consider impossible

see i think you have to change the nature of government and i think there are people who would

agree with me on that but the big problem is and i i agree with it that it's not going to be easy

because there are so many popular things in it the people who are recipients but also the people

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