Want Higher Taxes? Elect a Democrat.

You’ve likely heard President Trump and members of his administration talk about how much money taxpayers are saving because of the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). Wanting to know if this claim was true, I calculated my 2025 income tax liability assuming the OBBBA had not been passed into law. I was shocked to discover that my income tax burden would have been 106% higher without the OBBBA. If, for example, I owed the IRS $2,000 in income tax in 2025, I would have owed them $4,120 if the OBBBA had not been enacted. But 2025 is only half the story.

The OBBBA had two significant effects on personal income taxes: it introduced new tax cuts and it made permanent the expiring tax cuts from President Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). Not all of the TCJA cuts expired in 2024; the remainder were set to expire after 2025. So, I estimated my 2026 taxes both with and without the OBBBA. Without the OBBBA my income tax liability would be 175% higher in 2026. If I have to pay the IRS $2,000 in 2026, I would have had to pay $5,500 if not for the OBBBA.

Being retirees on a fixed income, my wife and I can’t benefit from the new tax cuts except for the enhanced deduction for seniors. I can’t imagine the OBBBA advantages for a working family that can benefit from both the TCJA tax cuts and the new OBBBA cuts. The Tax Foundation estimated that the average taxpayer would save $2,272 in income taxes in 2026 because of the OBBBA. Over the four years of the second Trump administration, the average household will save about $9,000 in personal income taxes because of the OBBBA. Overall, the OBBBA is estimated to have averted a $4.5 trillion tax increase.

Now recall that every single Democrat in Congress last year voted against the OBBBA and almost every Republican in Congress voted for it. That’s right, Sen. Jon Ossoff and every other Democrat in Congress voted to give us what would have been the biggest tax hike in U.S. history. That includes the so-called moderates, progressives and socialists. This is the only important fact in the upcoming election for Georgia U.S. Senator.

Electing Democrats like Jon Ossoff will cost us dearly. Democrats believe that big government is our savior. They think they know best how to spend our money. They create programs ad nauseam to give away our money on frivolous causes, hoping to solidify their power in perpetuity. Democrats measure a program’s success by how much money it spends. The more money that flows into the pockets of their beneficiaries, the more likely the beneficiaries will keep them in power. Worse yet, Democrats turn a blind eye to fraudsters who rob us blind. If you want to pay more taxes and have it wasted or stolen, vote for a Democrat like Jon Ossoff.