Gregory Halpern Expands on Ben Carson's $211 Trillion Warning with a Forensic Report Showing the Real Cost to the People and How to Fix It

SPRING GROVE, Ill., Oct. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2015, Dr. Ben Carson spotlighted a staggering figure—$211 trillion as a truer measure of America's long-term fiscal hole, echoing work popularized by economist Laurence Kotlikoff and backed by 17 Nobel laureates and 1,200+ economists calling for "infinite-horizon" fiscal-gap accounting.

Now, Patriot Plaintiff Gregory J. Halpern releases a 25-year Master Forensic Economic Report that reframes the same number from a citizen vantage: not only what government may owe someday, but what Americans have already paid and lost since 2000 through direct taxes, hidden charges, rigged finance, and inflation—totaling $211.89 trillion in documented and estimated burdens.

"Carson and those economists were right to demand honest math," Halpern said. "My forensic report adds the receipts—the lived costs borne by families and small businesses—and then pairs them with working remedies the people can enforce." The analysis details four buckets: direct taxes ($99.8T), taxes buried in daily life ($49.9T), hidden bank manipulations ($48.7T), and inflation as a silent tax ($13.5T), with line-items across telecom/fees, utilities, fuel, property, tariffs, debt-interest, and more. 211TrillionDollars.com

Halpern's campaign—already picked up across MarketWatch, Morningstar, and other outlets—centers on three drafted citizen Acts that convert outrage into action: the Judicial Rule of Law Compliance Act, the Un-Election Act, and the Tax Approval Act. Together, they aim to remove corrupt officials lawfully, force accountability votes on lawless judges, and require direct taxpayer consent on budgets.

Where Carson's "fiscal gap" asked what the government owes, Halpern's report shows who pays—and how the public can claw back power. "This is not partisan," Halpern added. "It is a citizen enforcement system backed by filings, numbers, and draft laws the public can use now."

Call to Action
Download the $211 Trillion Forensic Report, review the three Acts, and join the Citizen Action Network: JOIN. Media can reference the full press backgrounder and prior wire pickups (Yahoo Finance, Lifestyle Newswire, etc).

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Gregory Halpern, Patriot Plaintiff
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Notes to Editors:

• Carson's "$211T" remarks were widely debated; WaPo explained the number as Kotlikoff's infinite-horizon fiscal-gap construct, while citing support from 17 Nobel laureates & 1,200 economists. This release acknowledges that discussion and extends it with citizen-side forensics and remedies.
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