The largest tax increase in history.

When you read conservative pundits as often as I do, certain phrases seem to show up with surprising regularity. Well, not really that surprising I guess. John Boehner uses this phrase in his latest article, in the middle of a long list of Democratic Crimes.

Democrats have worked to weaken our national defense and retreat from the global war on terror. They’ve voted to impose the largest tax increase in American history; proposed hundreds of billions in wasteful, unnecessary spending; crafted multibillion-dollar slush funds for secret earmarks; . . .

I just find myself wondering how many largest tax increases in American history there can be.