One of the most important powers that Government has is the power to tax and it seems to me that this is a power about to get out of control. Our nation is in recession and we are going to see states have problems making their budgets work.When this happens all of us know that tax increases are on the way. This will turn out to be a vicious circle, as unemployment rises tax revenues decrease, this causes the state to in turn want to raise taxes As taxes go up many business will have to lay off more people which in turn causes tax revenue to go down. This process raises some questions in my mind. If I lose income in my life I must tighten my belt and figure out how to get by on less, but not the state their solution is as always raise taxes.Something must be done to change this mindset of our state representatives and they must understand that we the people will not tolerate tax increases in hard times. I believe that in order to get this done me must change the way that we run the government budget process and we must make it more difficult for our elected officials to raise taxes.