[Zathras]

I’ve told this to normal liberals that what is driving this is a global shortage of money.
They have run out of sources and the only way out is to invent new taxes.
Global Warming Tax....VAT Tax 2....Rich Guy Tax.

Even the GOP-e wants to secretly go this way.

[arthurus]

o if paid for through new taxes, federal taxation would have to roughly double.

If federal taxation roughly doubled it would put the system farther from paying for all this than if taxation stays the same.Doubling rates and even extending the income tax to all those who have been exempted from it would crash the economy and reduce revenue in the not very long run, maybe in a year.