Quote:But tax hikes work, too. Fact is, it's not concern for deficits that's motivating them; it's that they can't resist the chance to grab more money for Washington to spend. Government isn't the problem, Obama argued during the health-care debate, but the solution. And the bigger, the better. Hiking taxes -- locking in funding streams now -- will drive public-sector growth far into the future. And with everyone else panicked by the gaps, well . . . who'd want to waste a good crisis?

Quote:As the government statisticians revise their statistics downward and the leading indicators suggest that the so-called recovery is nothing more than an artifact of massive federal borrowing and spending,