rob, i don't know what economy you're in, but people are still struggling, they're worried about their jobs, their housing prices are still going to continue to fall. this economy is on a thread right now and just 'cause wall street seems to be making money and they always figure out a way to do so, doesn't mean that main street is doing okay. main street is going to pay the majority of their paycheck on purchases. not wall street. >> i live on your street, so i'm glad to hear about sales taxes coming. it's time to share the tax burden with every man who doesn't ever get tax increases. look, wayne got the point, nobody is going to cut the major cost to government, so we're going to have to fund it with higher taxes. to john's point, we're going to have to limit the additional spending. but to go to everybody's drug analogy, this is a toot and this is going to have to be higher