Holiday spending

In 2010 the total holiday spending was $228.36 billion. This money could be used for something more useful. As a country we could maybe give some of our holiday spending money to the government. This money could go to the debt so we could have less taxes or go to schools. Just skipping holidays 1 year could save our debt witch would cause taxes to drop down to nearly nothing. What would you rather have no taxes and skipping 1 year of holidays or not skip the 1 year and have taxes?