On reviewing elements of President Joe Biden’s extraordinarily extensive $1.8 trillion American Families Plan, George Bernard Shaw’s famous quote stuck in my mind: “A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” The glue that held the thought in place got even stronger when I read Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace’s summary of Biden’s Wednesday evening speech:

“And the other thing that’s pretty popular is he said, ‘You’re not going to have to pay for it. Big corporations are going to pay for it. People making more than $400,000 are going to pay for it.’ But the vast majority of people watching tonight aren’t, so offering a lot of stuff and saying you aren’t going to have to pay for it is pretty popular.”