...the Bush tax cuts' implementation and expiration dates were manipulated to hide their true cost... You are saying that the true cost of entitlements has been disclosed to the public by their creators and is widely known? Here are the tax increases needed just by 2030, as per CBO, to fund currently promised spending ... compared to past tax increases for costs such as, oh, fighting World War II. Are you and the general public aware of those numbers? If not, should you be annoyed at the people who have imposed them on the public without informing the public about them? You know, 2030 is not 75 years away.