And how do we feel that so much of our tax money is going towards businesses with failed financial policies? How large is the federal deficit going to be in next year's budget? What will the total national debt be? $12 trillion? Do you know what amount of our taxes last year were wasted on paying just the INTEREST on the national debt? Try around 8% of the total budget. That's 8% of your tax dollars taken last year just to keep the national debt from growing on interest. Would you have rather had 8% less money taken out of your taxes in the first place? That's the problem with carrying a national debt. There's a reason the national debt has grown every year (including all 8 of Bill Clinton's years, even though he likes to claim a "surplus") - we blow so much money on paying interest on the debt. We'd be lucky to squeeze a $500 billion surplus (AFTER interest has been paid *cough* Clinton *cough*) out of Washington every year.. that'll pay off that national debt by 2033. Yeah, that'll happen.