$1T IN TAXES IS HELL TO PAY

The New York Post ^ | February 27, 2009 | Geoff Earle

[Scanian]

WASHINGTON - Big government is back - and so are big taxes.

President Obama unveiled a mammoth, $3.6 trillion budget yesterday that would dramatically boost federal spending almost across the board - and pay for it with tax hikes of $1 trillion on individuals and businesses over the next decade.

Experts immediately tagged the new president's supersized spending plan the most sweeping government overhaul since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society in the 1960s.

Marty Regalia, the chief economist at the US Chamber of Commerce, called it "the biggest return to the welfare state that we've seen in decades."

The budget would create an eye-popping $1.8 trillion deficit for the 2009 fiscal year - the highest ever in dollar terms - amounting to a 12.3 percent share of the economy, which is the largest since 1945.

The big budget - which Obama released two days after telling Congress the "day of reckoning" for past economic blunders had arrived - encompasses his key priorities, from a troop drawdown in Iraq to big new investments in health, science, and education.

Republicans immediately balked at the spending free-for-all.

House GOP leader John Boehner of Ohio said, "The era of big government is back, and Democrats are asking you to pay for it. We can't continue to pile debt on the backs of our kids and grandkids."

[autumnraine]

30 days wipes out 40 years of hard work.

[Doogle]

"the biggest return to the welfare state that we've seen in decades."

HIS objective is clear

[sergeantdave]

Fat welfare momma up the road and her dumb communist kids are getting a raise. I’m sure her drunk boyfriends will appreciate the extra case of beer each week.

[caver]

“Fat welfare momma up the road and her dumb communist kids are getting a raise. I’m sure her drunk boyfriends will appreciate the extra case of beer each week.”

That sums it up nicely.

[RU88]

There is no way humanly possible for the “rich” to entirely finance this spending spree. Eventually Zero will start to reach into the pockets of the middle class by redefining the word “rich.” This already happened in the false prophets first weeks in office with the expansion of SCHIPS by way of a massive tax hike on tobacco. This guy and his minions in Congress just can't help themselves! They're like kids in a candy store. To say that they're already in over reach mode would be an understatement. People will tire of him when they realize his policies have only made them poorer. It'll be hard to win an election when the only people voting for you a psychologically challenged liberals and welfare queens and kings.