it's actually aret metically impossible to solve this problem on the tax side alone. now we find ourselves having gone through this spending spree, find ourselves with a weak economy still. it has not had the intended effect. unemployment still is persistently way, way, too high. we have now a huge debt. about 70% of g.d.p. now and growing rapidly. if you want to consider how unsustainable, how utterly unsustainable the situation is, i think here's the statistic that speaks volumes. if you look at just social security and the mandatory health care programs and interest on our debt, just those three things, those three things alone by 2021 inside the current budget window, are projected to consume 90% of all expected tax revenue. just those three things. leaving absolutely nothing for all the other mandatory spending programs, all the welfare programs, nothing whatsoever for discretionary, defense spending, none of that is included in those three things, yet they would consume 90% of what we could reasonably expect to collect in revenue. so it's abundantly obvious to m