Reason Morning Links: Tax and Spend Edition

- The Treasury prepares a record-setting debt auction.

- The Senate passes a "cash for clunkers" bill.

- The House ponders new revenue streams. Among the options: a new tax on soft drinks, a higher tax on alcohol, an increase in the income tax, an increase in the payroll tax, and a VAT.

- A jury tells a Minnesota woman to pay record labels $1.92 million for swapping 24 songs online.

- The Pentagon perceives public protests as "low-level terrorism."

- Ayatollah to protesters: Cut it out.