It is too simplistic to always say tax those with higher incomes without making the necessary cuts in programs first. I for one don’t mind paying additional taxes. But I want to be absolutely sure that when I do they are going to fund crucial government programs and not paying for programs that can be or should be cut, or where belts can be tightened without hurting people first. I am not convinced that is the case yet in the DC budget.

For the past four years we have been spending above our means without a thought to the future. Buiding recreation centers and libraries, that while we want them, we now don’t have the money to keep them open or staffed.

Well now the time has come to face the piper and we need to do this carefully not at the last minute with the easy cry “just raise taxes”.