Yep gonna be painful but.....I am 100% against raising taxes. Since when is raising taxes the answer? I mean the solution! It's always the answer but it's always wrong. They will waste it and prolly half of what they didn't waste will be raped by these bozo's. They need to reduce spending plain and simple. Wanna really attack the problem? Cut these ridiculous pension packages that they fund, stop most if not all pork projects, greatly reduce foreign aid, drill baby drill and get things going here for oil and fuel, reduce our dependency on others for oil, cut the gonads off of expense accounts for the gubment and on and on.

Let everyone feel the pain not just the private sector. The private sector has felt the pain. Look at our retirement plans and standard of living costs. Didn't the gubment grow during this recession? Why is that? Should it not have shrunk if we are trying to control spending?

Make a politician who makes over 250K a year work without pay until they get it right.