Obama’s Budget Is a Tax-and-Spend Travesty: New at Reason

President Obama recently released his last budget, laying out his priorities and proposals for FY2017 and the years to come. Not surprisingly, it’s a tax-and-spend budget that not only does nothing to get us off the unsustainable financial path we’re on, but also it claims that more taxes and spending will grow the economy.

According to Congressional Quarterly, the president’s budget should be called the “Do Nothing Budget.” It’s a good name, if we consider that it doesn’t do anything to address the explosion of the debt and the growth in spending for Medicare, Medicaid, Affordable Care Act subsidies, and Social Security, writes Veronique de Rugy.

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