KRUGMAN: not raising taxes is the same as paying people.

Mr. Obama appears to agree: by his logic, every dollar a taxpayer gets to keep is a "cost" - so if someone makes $100,000 per year and pays $30,000 in federal income taxes, the cost to the government obviously is $70,000.

In the liberals' view, all the money earned by everyone actually belongs to the government. In their beneficence, they allow wage earners to keep some of it, even though the government must incur tremendous costs to do so.

Don't you worry your little heads; Aunt Nanny and Uncle Sam will take care of you.