How did a lifetime of building and fixing things shape the way you eventually looked at the design of the federal government?

Well, for about 50 years, I was, uh, a master craftsman, as you say.

I, uh, installed wall coverings, and, uh, it's a type of trade that is... very few people can actually do.

And what you need, y- I mean, the qualifications you need for this is you need to be very artistic, you need to know a lot about math, and you need to be able to go into a room and organize it in such a way where it's gonna sh- it's gonna look like it's supposed to be there when you're finished.

So you're looking at patterns and all kinds of stuff.

And we'd run into problems all the time on, on that, you know, on...

It's, it, sometimes it's really difficult to get the pattern to work in the room that we're working in.

... and why shouldn't the first AI-generated answer automatically become the final answer?

So,

um, So that's, you know, I mean, basically that's what I decided that that's where the starting point was for Fix Your Gap.

And I said, so I can do this if I can change the tax system and the tax base.

And I started doing some research.

This has been going on for the better part of eight to 10 years.

And as I was researching more and more and more, I was like, you know, they're taxing basically the producers, you know, those that produce, they're basically punishing them, you know, self-employed people trying to make a living, trying to, get their businesses to grow.

Each time they try to think about growing, they're hit with either another tax or a tax raise or something that's holding them back.

misconceptions that people have about how much people actually pay in federal tax?

often?

How often? Annually.

Annually.

Okay.

Annually.

So that means that the treasury will get anywhere from $20 trillion to $40 trillion a year.

That's how you fund the government.

Two ideas.

Yeah.

So I needed to find a different tax base.

in order to pull something like this off.

And I spent a long time searching.

I looked at all the other, the fair tax, flat tax, national sales tax, all those.

They all kept coming back to a narrow base that you needed to charge a high percentage rate of taxation in order to cover costs.

So that's where I really brought AI in because I was, I was desperately searching for something.

Yeah, term limits