  No a real thinker would cut taxes.    sure you could cut taxes, but that doesn't get rid of the bloated programs causing more deficit. we don't have enough money to pay for our programs now yet they're still running, so it'd be foolish to believe we'd be better off with lower taxes.     taxes can also be changed back over time. you would have to cut income AND sales taxes drastically to have any meaningful effect. all form of taxes even, which wouldn't happen because the government knows that would bankrupt them and limit their power.    instead, limiting profit and wealth, while tricky, is a better and more long term solution. forcing companies to make only soo much cents on the dollar, especialy larger ones, would nip the problem in the bud. this would also have to include revenue and not just profit since many companies disguise profit as revenue. for example, a company will take 'revenue' and buy up giant pieces of land and buildings they never intend on using. they disguise this profit as revenue (revenue being what's put back into the business), then later sell those properties to churn a profit. instead, limiting profits should be based on production costs. no company should be making 1000 times from a product what they put into it, even after revenue is deducted.    as for why a min wage increase is useless, think of it like this. an item costs $5. min wage is risen to $9 an hour. that $5 item then becomes $7 or more, and rising. so if you made $7/hr before and later $9/hr, you're making more money sure, but the rise in cost has completely negated the extra money you made. just to clarify...    made $7, spend $5, $2 left  made $9, spend $7, $2 left.    making more money, but due to rising costs, have only the same amount of money left as before....or even less. gas for instance, has at least doubled. other products have more than doubled. so you might be making ~20% more on min wage, but the products you spend money on have risen at an even higher percentage.     also since people will be making 'more' money, taxes will rise too since you'll be paying the same percentage on a larger income, while spending more on products. so not only does the government get more money for taxes from you, companies also get more money from you.     let's also keep in mind, raising min. wage requires a rise in higher paying wages as well. right now, there's many people working in trained fields that they went to 4 year college for, and are only making $10-$14 an hour at best. with a $9 min. wage, these jobs will have to increase their pay or many people won't even bother with the effort of an expensive college degree and debt for just a measly dollar or two extra an hour. this further causes prices to rise if they have to increase the pay of higher skilled workers.       limiting taxes doesn't work because taxes can be changed. history has shown us that we can go from a 90% tax on the rich to a 15% or less tax. however, when you limit the ability for companies to charge soo many times more than production costs, that becomes much more effective and creates a second barrier. in order to bypass such a law, they would have to abolish it altogether. more often in the US, laws are impossible to abolish and can only really just be altered a bit. of course, they could also alter my suggesting in law, by making it so companies are allowed to profit a bit more......but with all of the factors combined, it would take them MUCH longer to try and balance it out in their favor, buying us more time to de-tooth them and balance it back in our favor.     I'm not against capitalism. I'm not against people making money. but I am against the crooked charging $10 for something that cost 50 cents in total to produce (which includes expending revenue).