p.s. Another classic excuse to forever raise taxes (even the idiocy of tax hikes in economic downturns) was that taxes must be raised to balance the budget.
As a youth, that was a beaten2death excuse that the rubes, er the voters, never figured out (that and which shell the carnie booth guy had put the pea under).
But the old “raise taxes to reduce the deficit” excuse hasn’t been used since...well, since the Obama Administration.
Absolutely effing brilliant.
It will take a great depression to educate the public of the evils of this bunch of communists.