. . . does anyone actually think that, by having this increased revenue, that the money will actually go to paying off the national debt? Seriously. There is ALWAYS something else that they'll find to spend the money on. Besides, why raise taxes when a lot of the problem is misallocated and wasted funds? Having taken a temp job at a correctional facility a long time ago, I've seen some serious waste of resources going on. Printing out three sheets of paper per inmate (where most of the paper was blank) to obtain two pieces of information, only to throw out that paper in just a minute? Sending a 37-cent letter to tell a former inmate that they've got one cent left in their commissary account, and asking if they want us to cut a check for that amount to them (and I'd say about 95% of the letters I've sent out were for amounts that were less than the cost of sending the actual letter, and most of those were just for a penny!)? And why would three people be needed to run the commissary when they spent most of their day playing on the internet and talking with the guards? A single, semi-organized person could have done the job just fine on their own, and still would have had time to play solitare on the computer and flirt with the guards. Every day there, I saw another means of wasting tax dollars through inefficient protocols and poor work ethic. So, why would I believe that giving MORE money to the government wouldn't go to waste?