The FY2009 Federal budget submitted by George W. Bush was $3.5 trillion.
GWB's legacy will be an 84% increase in Federal spending in just eight years. None of what he did on the tax/revenue side can overcome such an awful, irresponsible track record. He makes Barack Obama -- whose last Federal budget was for $4.2 trillion -- look fiscally responsible by comparison. That itself speaks volumes of how bad the second Bush administration was.
It also explains why Jeb Bush ended up being less popular than ISIS among Republican votes in 2016.
That is what happens when you lower taxes for the very rich. The less they pay the more they are going to spend. Just like the lower 47% not paying taxes and then not caring about high spending. The very rich care less the less they are taxed and don't forget the government at all levels are about 35% of the economic pie. Maney of them are receiving more from the government in subsidies, contracts and what ever then they are paying. .