Taxes are not even remotely the problem in our economy right now. In 2007 the personal income tax brought in $1,163 billion dollars, while the total spending by the government was a whopping $4.32 TRILLION. Over $250 billion of that is just going towards interest on our debt. Also, I'd have to check the numbers but I believe that if you subtract the personal income tax from the total receipts in 2007 its very close to the total including income tax in 2004. An overabundance of free credit, created by the democrats in 1995 combined with idiotic money supply management by the Federal Reserve put us where we are today.