Thus it's no surprise that he did more than anyone to poison the well of the super committee with his October remarks promising a veto unless the deal included $1 trillion in tax increases. Mr. Obama knew that Republicans couldn't agree to this a year after winning election on a promise not to raise taxes. But $1 trillion became the marker that Democrats on the super committee insisted was the price of admission for all but token spending cuts. This is after Mr. Obama also insisted that ObamaCare and its tax increases (that start in 2013) couldn't be touched."

Whatever you think of the failure of the super committee, whatever you hear in the media, whatever anyone says, pull out your pay stub and take a look at your gross pay and then your net pay.  This act is guaranteed to remind us another abiding reality:  government's appetite for more, always more.

Read on at The Wall Street Journal.