As he does every year, Sen. Rand Paul (R"Ky.) asked the Senate on Wednesday to balance the federal budget by trimming a few pennies from every dollar that the government spends. Yep, it's actually that easy. The predictable result: a 39-56 vote that probably overstates the popularity of Paul's proposal"how many would vote for it if they believed it actually had a chance of passing, one must wonder. read more
His experiment won't get the sample time it needs, which will be around 25 years from now.