"They will raise your taxes!"

That's Bush's (worn-out) refrain. Some shit never changes.

Might raising taxes make sense? Seeing as we're running record budget deficits -- in addition to the fact that we have $43 trillion in unfunded fiscal liabilities (more than half on Bush's and the GOP Congress's watch) -- I think it would.

Nah, that would be too adult and responsible. Besides, taxes are evil and don't play well during election season. And why pay down our debts now when we can pass it on to our children with interest accrual?

The day will come when the world no longer needs our consumer and energy demands so much, and when it does, our debts will be due. Lets just hope we're able to pay it in cash and not heads.