Micheal, we all know the higher rates will bring in less. Your dad's association with Arthur Laffter put us onto that great truth, but it was also in Genesis 47:26 and "The King's Fifth" of Medieval Europe, but our elected dummies don't get it. Come see us at The Two Minute Conservative, http://tinyurl.com/7jgh7wv and when you speak ladies will swoon and liberal gentlemen will weep.