Maybe this guy can help Potts. He's really good with his own taxes and budgets!
SESSIONS talking with GEITHNER: "Let's talk about our interest situation under your budget. The interest increases every year. It was $187 billion in 2009. Under your proposal, the interest increases to $844 billion. And would you not agree that that's a stunning figure, perhaps the fastest growing item in the budget? And all of that is a direct result of the debt we're running up, and only a modest expectation of interest rate increases."
GEITHNER: Senator, absolutely. It is a[n] excessively high interest burden. It's unsustainable --
SESSIONS: Well, it's your plan! For the ten years. I mean, that's the one the president has submitted! That's what he's asked us to vote on. It will result in this -- and that's your numbers, off your budget.
GEITHNER: Senator, you're absolutely right. With the president's plan -- even if Congress were to enact it, and even if Congress were to hold to it and reduce those deficits to 3% of GDP over the next five years -- we would still be left with a very large interest burden and unsustainable obligations over time. That's why we're having the debate. I completely agree with you. But the question, though, is -- just to be direct about it -- what's the alternative plan?
SESSIONS: Well, what your plan is is that plan. It's the one you're required by law to submit, and that's what you called for, and it's not acceptable. I'm sorry, it's a plan not for "winning the future," but losing the future.
Ahhh... Liberal intelligence!