SEN RAND PAUL: Our budget deficit is out of control. Congress must pass my Six Penny Plan

In 2011, our national debt was about $15 trillion, and the U.S. Treasury spent over $450 billion on interest. Washington was printing money it didn’t have, buying its way out of yet another financial crisis and sending brand-new, taxpayer-funded subsidies to health insurance companies through Obamacare. It was clear then that this massive level of spending was not sustainable.

It was in this moment of explosive deficit spending that a new generation of conservative leaders — myself included ...