President Joe Biden just proposed the largest budget (as a percentage of America’s economy) since the country was fighting Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and Fascist Italy. He’s doing it when there is no emergency, only an overweening desire to pass progressive programs quickly, before they lose their legislative majority.
The best historical analogue to his proposed budget increase is Lyndon Johnson’s cradle-to-grave Great Society Program.
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