not reduce the deficit by raising taxes . We need more taxes like John McLaughlin [ Washington
executive editor of National Review ] needs assertiveness training .
Now , whether government borrows or increases taxes , it will be taking the same amount of money
from the private economy , and either way , that ' s too much . We must bring down government
spending . We need a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget . It ' s something that
49 states already require -- no reason the federal government should be any different .
We need the line-item veto , which 43 governors have -- no reason that the president shouldn ' t .
And we have to cut waste . The Grace Commission has identified billions of dollars that are wasted
and that we can save .
But the domestic side isn ' t the only area where we need your help . All of us in this room grew up ,
or came to adulthood , in a time when the doctrine of Marx and Lenin was coming to divide the
world . Ultimately , it came to dominate remorselessly whole parts of it . The Soviet attempt to give
legitimacy to its tyranny is expressed in the infamous Brezhnev doctrine , which contends that once
a country has fallen into Communist darkness , it can never again be allowed to see the light of