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and so much more. Very, very happy to have you with me. We got a lot to talk about today,

particularly since I was out yesterday. A lot of you emailed and asked if I was still sick. No, so I was really sick on Friday. I was bad sick on Friday. He had a stomach bug. But yesterday, my son was in a regional high school tennis tournament, and so I was with him, watching him play tennis. Didn't win, but actually did pretty good. So it was a fun day to hang out with him.

So I am back and it is tax day. Tax day, my friends. When he was president of the United States,

George W. Bush, at the beginning of his second term, before he wanted to do Amnesty and hearing myers and all that stuff he he had

two ideas the first idea was to privatize social security and the way it would have worked was

if you were under 40 you'd be transitioned into the new system if you were between 40 and 50

you could opt in all or half of your retirement.

And if you were over 50, you stayed in the existing system and the government would

essentially float debt to keep your Social Security payments coming, so you would be

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