The Biden Budget's $2 Trillion Magic Asterisk

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Instead, the game is to appear more moderate by hiding much of the colossal long-term increase in taxes and spending that the president supports.
47% : Still, the White House points to federal spending reaching 23.9 percent of GDP, and taxes reaching 19.1 percent of GDP a decade from now -- significantly higher than normal, but not revolutionary.
44% : He also pledged to not raise taxes on anyone earning less than $400,000 annually, but then proposed a series of corporate tax hikes that would be passed along to families through lower wages, higher prices, and smaller investment returns.
43% : Trillions of dollars that Biden proposed while campaigning, within categories such as Social Security, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), education, and health care, have not appeared in a presidential budget either.
39% : Yet paying taxes to finance new spending obviously does not make it "free."
38% : And these deep deficits are why taxpayers need a president who will honestly and thoroughly present Washington's fiscal picture and the costs of the White House vision on taxes and spending.

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