Establish a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT). Just $0.005 per transaction would pay off the entire $15 trillion US debt!

From Paul Buchheit of cagle.com:
"The absence of an FTT constitutes tax avoidance. Not a penny of sales tax is paid on U.S. financial transactions, which have been estimated at about three quadrillion dollars annually, or three thousand times the deficit. No sales tax is paid despite the high-risk nature of “flash trading” that can lose entire pension funds in a few seconds.
Just a half penny from every dollar of total U.S. financial transactions would pay off the national debt — not just the deficit, but the whole $15 trillion debt. More conservative estimates by the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the Chicago Political Economy Group suggest FTT revenues of a half-trillion dollars annually."
Given how many big traders avoid taxes on their earnings, this is rather fair...