THE PRESIDENT'S annual budget reminds the Beltway tribes of what they do -- tax the country, distribute revenues to their allies, and euphemize it as a budget. With his 2015 budget, Barack Obama at least makes clear his presidency's reason for being: . . .
. . . to establish an empire of taxation.
(Daniel Henninger, Wonderland: "An Empire of Taxation," wsj.com, February 5, 2015)
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In six years, the Obama Democrats have abandoned any belief that the private sector is the primary cause of American prosperity. Instead, they seem to see the private sector as a kind of tax sump-pump, a dumb machine whose only purpose is tax flow.
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Barack Obama chants "spending on infrastructure" as if it were the holy of holies. It's not, and most voters don't need IMF economists to tell them "infrastructure" is code for the campaign contributions that flow back to the politicians only after they spend someone's taxes on cement, bicycle paths and bullet trains.
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