Comrade Barack's Plan for Funding His Enormous Budget?

Pillage Tax the most productive members of society.

The budget would create an eye-popping $1.8 trillion deficit for the 2009 fiscal year - the highest ever in dollar terms - amounting to a 12.3 percent share of the economy, which is the largest since 1945.

As LRC columnist Anthony Gregory wrote yesterday, "In 2000 the U.S. had a $1.8 trillion budget; ten years later, that's the size of the deficit."