here now to discuss it is economist ben stein. ben, it is great to have you.hat if you looked at your expenses at the end of the year, your biggest liability is the government. do you feel like you're getting your money's worth. what do you think? do you feel like you're getting your money's worth? >> i feel like i'm getting my money's worth because i'm a big hawk on defense. i want to spend as much possible on defense to keep us free from any possibility of soviet or chinese aggression. i'm good with it. i tell you what the real problem is, we're at a point where we're at low tax heaven. taxes will go up. we're running enormous deficit only way taxes can go is up. we're paying 16,750 a year for taxes but it is going up, up, up, because we're running 4 or 500 misdemeanor -- million dollars deficits. we're running trillion dollar deficits every year. we'll find ourselves paying so much in taxes it will crowd out all other expenses put together. melissa: where does all the money go? you talk about how you like it to be spent on defense but that is only a type an