Leonhardt says taxes will go up, probably in the next ten years. And when taxes have to go up because the most fiscally reckless president since FDR is followed by the worst depression since FDR, we should name the bill that raises them after George W. Bush. They will be his tax increases. And he deserves the honor of being immortalized by them.

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