host: we're talking about ended the year spending battles with mick mulvaney. gary from indiana, you are on the "washington journal." caller: i heard the congressman make a statement about taking from one group to give to the other grid. he did not see that as being right. you all have been doing that for years. you did that when you cause the market to fail and you called the -- caused the 401(k)'s to fail. it took it from the poor folk and gave it to the banks. that was a transfer of wealth. as far as social security is concerned, an agreement was made between government officials, not government, and the people. we're going to take this amount of money from you and we will do this for you when you retire. that was the agreement. right now you cannot of all that agreement because you have taken the money. -- you cannot hold that agreement because you have taken the money. i call that that. when you take it for whatever use you want to use it and not the purpose for which they gave it to you, you have stolen the money. secondly, when our politicians and cooper

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host: we are talking with mick mulvaney about year-end pending battles. if you want to give us a call -- caller: we had a big trust fund in the 1970's and had a huge surplus and took money out of the trust fund and created on social security tax and got the hands caught in the cookie jar and said something about a locked box, how they were going to put the money into the social security and locked box and secure it. so my question is or my concern is, it doesn't seem that the federal government with 545 minds in the world can get anything done basically the social security system is broke, post office is broke and now all of a sudden all comes the europeans, we fund the i.m.f., nato, united nations and they want more money from us. i think we should take care of our own problems first. host: go ahead, sir. guest: let's look at social security, a lot of folks didn't understand exactly where the money was and how it was funded. over the course of the last decades, more money came in every single week than went out in benefits. that's by design. so the surpl

mick mulvaney will be the tax guru. >> to follow-up on chairman really the start of cut, cap, and balanceas we started to work on that it grew and grew. we knew it had to stand by itself. it is properly seen as a complement to the next step of cut, cap, and balance. we have regulatory reform, energy reform, and that tax policy reform. tax policy breaks down into two separate pieces, the individual tax policies that congressman garrard talked about and the corporate tax policies. a lot of the work started on actually taking the president at his word in his state of the union address when he said he wanted a lower, flatter, simpler corporate tax rate. we never saw any real movement from that from the white house. our proposals are very simple, we go to a simple 25% flat tax for corporations. we anticipate a world with all the loopholes gone. we are actually trying to put it into action here. one thing we try to move to is an immediate appreciation on capital expenditures. these are things we think will be solid bipartisan support for. we have a repatriation proposal to encourage the industr

." >> on behalf of jared bernstein, mick mulvaney, and chuck todd, i think all of you for your attendance. i am invited victoria lion monroe back up here. >> thank you, gentlemen, thank you, congressmen. today's event was filmed by c- span. additionally, the archives of this morning's events will be on nationaljournal.com. i would like to thank our underwriters, the association of home builders, and the american beverage association for helping to make this morning possible. thank you again for joining us. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> coming up this afternoon, a hearing on an epa regulation dealing with power plant pollution and the impact on job growth. at 6:30 eastern, gary shapiro on what recommendations at the technology committee is making to the joint deficit reduction committee. later tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern, a live debate between herman cain and newt gingrich. they have agreed to a lincoln- douglas style debate. tomorrow on "washington journal," an economist on unemployment and t