Baldwin hasn’t met a tax increase she didn’t like, while increasing debt to record number

Despite President Obama’s campaign promise of fiscal responsibility, he and the most liberal member of the Wisconsin congressional delegation, Tammy Baldwin, have added an additional $4.7 trillion to the national debt in just the last three years – bringing America’s total debt to over $15.3 trillion.  Yet, instead of reversing course on their failed economic policies, President Obama and Tammy Baldwin are doubling-down on their call for higher taxes, more Washington spending and an even bigger federal debt.

The President today introduced his annual budget which includes $1.5 trillion in new taxes, much of which has previously been endorsed by Baldwin, while ensuring a fourth straight year of trillion-dollar-plus deficits.  What’s worse – Baldwin’s Democrat friends in the Senate have said they do not even intend to pass a budget for the third straight year, clearly recognizing the political peril of their tax-and-spend policies.  

“The national debt now exceeds the U.S. GDP, and yet the answer from President Obama and Democrats is to tax more, spend more, and charge more to the credit card of future generations,” National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Lance Trover said today.  “And if Wisconsinites want to see what Tammy Baldwin has been up to for more than a decade in Washington they need not look any further than our country’s $15 trillion deficit.” 

“The Obama-Baldwin budget and their call for higher taxes and even more spending is yet another defining difference in this year’s election, and one that they will be held accountable for this November,” Trover concluded.