Lowering taxes should be accompanied by more opportunities for all of us to fairly accumulate enough wealth through employment, ownership, and investment in businesses whose prices are made affordable through competition. The more opportunities we have to support ourselves the less need we will have for government assistance programs that may relieve financial problems but actually end up putting money into the bank accounts of private businesses many of whom have financial ties to major campaign contributors to politicial champaigns of those elected officials who voted for or sponsored the legislation authorizing those financial assistance programs in an effort to show they were on our side. We are supposed to be mature responsible adults who should be willing and able to be the primary providers of our own welfare and limit government activities to protecting us from foreign enemies and recovery from major disasters. The less we need government the lower taxes can be.