WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is sending Congress his eighth and final budget, proposing to spend a record $4.1 trillion on a number of initiatives. They include launching a new war on cancer, combating global warming and fighting growing threats from ISIS terrorists.
The new spending plan, for the budget year that begins Oct. 1 — just 3½ months before he leaves office — is facing heavy fire from Republicans who hope to capture the White House. The proposal had dim prospects of winning approval in a Republican-controlled Congress.
In all, Obama’s budget would increase taxes by $2.6 trillion over the coming decade, nearly double the $1.4 trillion in new taxes Obama sought and failed to achieve in last year’s budget.
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And the thing is, the Republi-can’ts will crow that he spent it all, never mind his predecessor put all that stuff on the credit card to shield his constituency from having to pull their weight in taxes.
And their rank-and-file will gobble it up like catfish gobble up shit from the river bed, because Obama is the Antichrist.
Might as well. Not that it’s going to be acted on, but as a statement of values.
The price for no-fucks-left-to-give has dramatically increased!