We don’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. My Penny Plan would cut just 6% a year and balance the budget in five years. That’s it. Show markets we’re serious about fiscal discipline, and the economy will respond. Time to hold the line on spending.

Sounds like y'all have a sexual deviant problem in Congress!

Revenue is a problem in so far as it’s too high. More. Tax. Cuts.

We can balance it by just cutting the fraud spending...next budget, whamo.

Reducing fraud would be the first thing. How much of the budget is going to fraud? Seems like much more than 6%.

cut the fraud and have 0% taxation HOW ABOUT DOING THAT INSTEAD RAND

Your penny plan is something, but this is all just stupid! Only in government is this fiscal irresponsibility ok. Congress should be forced to handle this like American taxpayers would, and it's simple! Until we have a surplus, Congress can only spend on NECESSARY things for US CITIZENS! NO aid to foreign countries, NO money to NGO's, NO pet projects, NOTHING! US Citizens in this position would stop donating, loaning, and would only buy necessities!

Let's get it done. and then erase the debt, End the Fed, and Repeal the 16th Amendment.

Cut the Fraud first then come talk to us. Start with your Bowling Green project or whatever you got going on there.

Rand you will (hopefully) never be president. You seem to be all in for you and politics. Where does the sacrifice for others happen. One man, not for salary or cudos has earned the respect of Americans you undermine and grab headlines selfishly, why not serve sir.

Would you promise to bring Eon's DOGE back and get a bill PASSED through congress to give him real power to GUT fraud and waste if you became president?

Cut the 40 million sent to the Taliban a week

"We are swimming in a sea of debt. That is the real threat. The debt that Washington keeps piling on will drag this country down." - Sen. Rand Paul

Bitcoin adoption fixes this; nothing else does. 🤷‍♂️

Virtually every entity or person in debt has a spending problem and not a revenue problem. One of the biggest issues in our society today is the fact that people have become to complacent and used to being in debt, so why would they care if their country is in debt either??? We solve this by changing culture and norms!

We have a blatant fraud and corruption problem and the democrats have been getting away with this for years and years…..finally we have a President and administration that’s doing something about it!

Pass a law making Congress members ineligible for re-election if the deficit exceeds 4% of GDP in 2027, and phase the percentage down to 0% by 2037.31.

Congress is the problem.. maybe just makebe if you held the ones accountable for doing these earmarks for fraud they attach to bills it would help a lot. Wtf. Is wrong with you people? You protect the ones committing all kinds of illegal stuff. You all use taxpayers' money to pay off people for the stuff like Eric Swalwell did. There is 100s of Eric's in there. That whole place is courpt.

We also have a major fraud problem!

The problem Rand is all of your coworkers are addicted to spending by way of their handlers. Too few of you to make this plan a reality. The political payoffs must be brought to light for them to start getting in line for the American people.

Have you ever looked at DoD spending policy at the micro level? There is a prevalence thought of, “if you don’t spend what you requested or as much (or more than) you spent last FY, your spending will be cut. This produces a culture of spend even more. A paradigm shift needs to occur where staying in/below projected budget is rewarded, not penalized

What's the penny plan?

this year I will be paying the most taxes i have ever in my 61 years of being alive. I hate paying and watching all DC give it away to undeserving individuals. Why should i pay? I still support Trump, but not happy with DC.

We have a ‘Congress doing nothing about it’ problem fucking big time.

Stop the 45Q tax credits. Our tax dollars go to multinational corporations instead of helping tax payers. It creates corruption within our government.

"I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution; I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of it’s constitution; I mean an additional article taking from the federal government the power of borrowing. I now deny their power of making paper money or any thing else a legal tender." - Thomas Jefferson

Your COVID 'insider trading' worked out good for you, huh @RandPaul ? I'll bet you made a pretty PENNY.

Rand pitched this plan 9 years ago... his colleagues laughed at him.

"Your" penny plan will never get a vote. Why not support something that could get a vote #fedhandcuffs !

We have a FRAUD problem - fix it!

You have a thief problem!

And no one would approve it (unfortunately)

I don't think there is anyone on x reading this who thinks the opposite. You should be making your case to the rest of the senate, not us. I've got 2 sorry-ass senators who think tax-and-spend is written in the Constitution (not that they have ever read it), go convince them.

Fix spending in five years? That’s pretty ambitious… or is this just another promise that’s never gonna happen?

Namely all this crazy nonsense spending of crazy pork barrel projects and NGO that kick back funds to these corrupt politicians

If revenue was cut in half it still wouldn’t be a revenue problem. That’s how insane our spending is.