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Today's question comes from Steve in Indiana. Would your snowball plan help get America out of $36 trillion dollars of debt? And how would you budget it? I wish Trump had you on the Doge

team. Yeah, no, I don't fit in with people that do stuff. No, I don't fit in anything in D.C.

It is kind of fun to watch them take a machete to the ridiculous spending.

And you don't have to be of any political ilk to think that machetes to the ridiculous spending are necessary.

This is out of control.

For sure, I mean, it's a funny question.

But the truth is that running a government of any size, the state of Tennessee, for instance, the governors, the last several governors I've been friends with, and it's a different endeavor to run something like that than run a business or run your personal account. The principle of being debt free still stands, and it's a good principle, and the principle of

living on less than you make still stands, and the principle of good management or good frugality

still stands. The, so, I mean, I can give you an opinion, but it's probably worth exactly

what you're paid for.

I observed under, for instance, Bill Clinton was the last president that had a balanced budget, that we actually did not run.

I mean, he did it.

Some say that he did some of that off of, I mean, the tax code that was in place at that point

was put in place by Reagan.

And so the lowered taxes, the Laffer Curve, Art Laffer Famous for.

Was the Reagan stuff all the way through?

Wasn't Bush 1 and then Clinton?

Yeah, yeah.

But the, it was, but I mean, it was H-W...

I mean, H, you know, was running the same camp.

He's running the same deal, except he raised taxes on one thing.

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