Eventually, however, Democrats are going to have to either give up their big dreams or hand those voters the bill, because they're the ones with most of the money. This creates a certain cognitive dissonance for progressives. "There's a bitterness that all the tax cuts went to the rich," says Marc Goldwein of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, "and not enough of them went to the rich in New York and California and Connecticut." Until that dissonance is resolved, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will keep promising big new programs with laughably inadequate financing mechanisms — and blue-state legislators will denounce inequality while cooking up tax-evasion schemes to perpetuate it.