Dear Mr. Lessenberry Thank you for your insightful comment about the budget and taxes. Unfortunately we have been so badly brainwashed that to most of us words like atheism and taxes are dirty words. We should stop talking about the word taxes and instead name it Governments wages, or cost of running our every day life including protecting us from fire by our fire department. Day and night we need our government to make our life work and yet we are unwilling to pay for any of that. I too, am willing to pay much more in government wages than i am paying now. We are such short sighted people. Only on Sundays we talk about brotherhood, but that is only a talk.