Is this why no money is being raised to pay for the war?

Good question and I like were you are going with it. As for the poster who said we gave tax cuts to the rich, everyone got a tax cut, millions of people came off the tax rolls completely and today the rich actually pay more in taxes than ever before. Almost half of all American wage earners pay NO federal income tax... That would be us on the bottom half. Bush has done a lot of things wrong but the tax cut isnt one of them.