It has been sickening to see the president & his family living like billionaires, taking numerous lavish vacations on the taxpayers' backs, while so many people are suffering terribly due to his policies which are strangling our ability to find our way out of the mire.  Consistent with his record, he actually does want taxes to go up, and he thinks he's found a way to raise them, while making it seem to be the fault of the Republicans.  I hope and pray our leadership will outsmart him politically this time.  The consequences are very serious if we don't.