We don’t need higher taxes...we need more tax payers.
More people making more money who then pay taxes.
Thank you. You will never balance this budget by raising taxes, you will actually reduce revenue because you will kill an already struggling economy.
You balance this budget by expanding the economy, and by getting the government out of things it doesn't belong in. You need more taxpayers and more prosperous taxpayers. And a more modest government.
I keep saying that a focused determination to become energy independent, eliminating bureaucratic impediments to energy development and generally encouraging homegrown energy projects of every kind, will turn this economy around on a dime. We send half a trillion a year out of the country buying fuel, putting other countries' people to work and funding their national budgets. Spend that money here, putting our people to work and funding our tax base, you'll turn this country around so fast you'll get whiplash.