[ISiddiqui]

I'm also not sold on that "we don't have any more to give" argument. US tax rates are pretty low compared to the rest of the 1st world. In addition, the way we treat capital gains and estate taxes make little sense, esp when compared world wide (and to cut the potential argument off at the knees, let's compare the US to Germany, which actually has a very productive economy even with the higher tax rates - or Australia).