The Rahmmer raised Chicago taxes and fees almost $500 a household in his first term, that's roughly $1.5 billion dollars a year. But it isn't enough. He could double it and double it and double it again and it won't cover Chicago's obligations to its unions - who are key to getting elected. And Illinois can't help because it's in even worse shape and no moderate Republican 'wondergov' can change that. And the Feds? Well the Dems had a chance to use the printing press to bail themselves out of years of drunken profligacy at the state and local level with the stroke of a pen when they had 60 senate votes. But instead, Narcisso the Wonder President went for a ruinously expensive and ill conceived healthcare boondoggle certain to cement his 'legacy'.
What that legacy will be can only be ascertained after Blue America goes well and truly bankrupt. Job 1 for Republicans is to allow the Dems to luxuriate in the consequences of their choices. Tough, tough love is the therapy of choice. Job 2 is to make damn sure that the "Great Bankruptcy and Collapse" doesn't have enough Red in it to turn it purple.
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