There's been a huge debt racked up for the country these past 6 years. I'm sure that the middle class will pay the lion's share of that debt via taxes, but at least this time, the wealthy will have to pay their share too.

There was once a guy who said that all those big tax breaks the past few years were just a form of welfare...for the rich. Who was the man who said that? Warren Buffet, one of the richest people on the planet. When one of the richest people on the planet says he's paying an unfairly low share of the tax burden...it's probably true. I have nothing against people becoming successful, but I do have problems when those who become successful want to become even richer by snatching money from the wallets of the middle class.

One of the two things I used to like about the Republicans was that they generally represented fiscal conservatism, a balanced budget, spending within our means. But when they got control over both branches of Congress AND the executive branch, fiscal conservatism disappeared and major deficit spending went wild. Bush has vetoed no pork at all. If I had children, I'd be ashamed to tell them that THEY are going to be the ones paying the price for all this deficit spending.

I don't know how they even keep rationalizing it, while talking about MORE tax cuts. That's like having a gigantic credit card bill and discussing decreasing your payments toward the bill. Does that help pay the bill? Hell no, that drags out the interest and makes the ultimate cost much worse. We need to revoke the tax cuts for the rich (I'm sure they can suffer along with 18k gold plated swimming pools rather than solid 24k gold swimming pools), and probably taxes need to be raised across the board, for everyone, to get our debt under control. That's the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss, because paying debts isn't glamorous or popular. But it still has to be done.