Update From Raine: Since this Blog from our own Clintster didn't get the attention it deserved last evening, (Sunday nights are usually slow around these parts) I have decided that it will be our Monday Blog. It's important. Thank you Clint, and thank you to all of our hardworking educators in this country.

Obama also would raise hundreds of billions of dollars in fresh revenue, which Republicans adamantly oppose. He would increase taxes on the wealthy by limiting the value of their itemized deductions and by allowing the recently extended George W. Bush-era tax breaks to expire in 2012. He would end subsidies for oil and gas companies, and would eliminate certain tax breaks for corporations that do business overseas. And he assumes that Congress will develop a plan to pay for a $556 billion transportation bill, a measure traditionally funded by increasing the federal tax on gasoline.