nick toiano, go ahead. guest: i think the idea of a consumption tax which many other countries have should be on the table. as ryan said earlier, with a 1.1 trillion dollars in tax expenditures. spending in the tax code, the tax code itself is 76,000 pages. over 12,000 lobbyists in the city making sure that their particular groups get their special benefits from it. we need to simplify those tax codes, broaden the base to lower marginal rates and perhaps we can supplement it by some new ideas including a consumption tax. host: our next call comes from michigan, dick, on our line for independents. caller: your program is very interesting. i am 78 years old now. i just looked at your web site. and in the order that you present things, you present health care and social security as something has to be dealt with. i would submit to you that it has to be dealt with, what has to happen is to completely remove the fica tax. and removed the health care premium because what would come out of that in the,. you do not