If power is confined only by the electorate s tax appetite, will prohibitive duties render our rights moot, even as Congress can t eradicate them?

FORBES: Capital Flows

Unless fiscal responsibility spreads from statehouse to statehouse, from city councils across the nation the retail appetite for tax free municipal bonds will stay satiated.

FORBES: Thank You Meredith Whitney

Neither then, nor now, does the American consumer's appetite need fuelling with tax cuts.

ECONOMIST: The

And neither involved raising nearly enough in tax revenues, relative to the size of America's economy or its long-term appetite for public spending.

BBC: Cliffhanger: Still hanging

"However, I believe there is little public appetite for introducing a barrage of new local taxes, especially given the fact that council tax doubled under the last administration, " said Local Government Minister Brandon Lewis.

BBC: Commuters in London