"One of the things that I learned over 35 years of being involved in politics is line items have people attached," added Wason. "And I think that's the thing they're going to find. Yes, you can do zero-based budgeting; it sounds like a really wonderful thing. But at the end of the day, every one of those line items has someone attached, whether it's education, whether it's health care, whether it's social services."