But your last sentence raises the ultimate question. Right now the U.S. Treasury is taking in more federal revenue than ever before. Think about that for a minute. They've taking in more money - and yet the most corrupt and incompetent administration in our lifetimes wants more money. They're wasting away an all-time high in revenue - and yet you have individuals like Bernie Sanders talking about 80 to 90% tax rates, and even Hillary getting in the game to talk about further confiscations of wealth.

There are large portions of the federal government that we could do without If we shut them down, we could make loads of that "revenue" available to projects that would actually do some good....