To Ross:
Sometimes revenues go up and sometimes they don't. Bill Clinton raised taxes and we had a surplus when he left office.

I have better questions for you:

Why has our national debt climbed from over 5 trillion dollars to over nine trillion dollars under Bush?

Why didn't all of those revenues keep our debt from getting so high as you stated in your post?

Also, why is it that Bush is the only president in history to lower taxes during wartime?

How resposible is it to borrow money from the Fed or a foreign nation (with interest by the way) to finance a war we could pay for through taxes?

If the War on Terror is the essential struggle of our lifetimes, then why aren't we asked to do more and pay more?

Is our security really not important enough to pay for ourselves? Why isn't it?

Which is more responsible: tax and spend or borrow and spend?

Just curious.

Peter